Just Us Girls #344 Colour Week

Hi everyone.

Happy weekend and I hope you are all enjoying the lead up to Summer. We are

still having abnormally warm weather during the day with temperatures up in the high 20C

but nights are certainly cooler. Apparently a few days ago it was the warmest on record  going back to 1923 at this time of year.

Now I wanted to share another brand new challenge over at

JUST US GIRLS

for my guest design spot for this month and 

this week's color combo: Plum, Olive and Ivory.

These colours I struggle with as I am more a rainbow colours type of person. I did lots of looking on the internet and found  that firstly when I typed in 'plum'  there was quite a range of plum colours. I looked, played around and ended up with three cards I was quite happy with. Have decided to share two, did my photography then added the Just Us Girls logo and looked at that plum on that and saw that yes I have gone 

more burgundy/plum than purple/plum.  

   My cards:

My first time squishing Distress Ink inkpads directly onto the stamp. The stamp is a Penny Black (The Unfolding) I  used Seedless Preserve( Distress Inks) for the flower and  Crushed Olive for the stems and the cardstock is an ivory colour. Once the stamp was inked up I sprayed lightly and managed to get four card fronts done, from the one inking and still cleaned ink off the stamp. The fourth one is very light in coverage but Im sure I will find a use for it.

I then added water via a paint brush to connect the colours here and there but mostly left to dry. I had a few  previous attempts where I played too much and found myself wanting to tidy up and define and had to force myself to stop. The only additions I did here was to draw in or define those fine lines in the centre of the flower a little better.

Added some olive gems (no longer available) and a gold sentiment (gold mirror card available in lots of places).

 It doesn't look like Seedless Preserve but it is.

Then I went with Copic colouring and used a colour that is called White Pearl (E41) and has the most amazing colour. To me it makes me think of a silky ivory colour.

This image is from Saturated Canary, isn't she a stunner. Wearing an off the shoulder Ivory body hugging dress opening into frills and lace  from the knees. 

A beautiful big bow finishes the dress off.

This photo is a wee bit blurry but check out the shimmer of this material. 

Its amazing what a juicy Wink of Stella can do and I drew with a clear glitter pen on the lines in the lace and up near her lashes and on the tips of the flowers in her hand.

Now we look at the rest of the card and the tulips are from a Penny Black (flower gala and comes with two stamps). 

I stamped twice, one I left whole and just fussy cut the whole image as one. The other I coloured and fussy cut all the flower heads and leaves 

so I could place them where I wanted.

I coloured all the tulips with Copics in the deep red range thinking burgundy/plum and should have gone purple/plum.  I loved this card by the time I finished. It is one of those ones where I had all the components and thought how do I use the ivory, 

plum and enough olive green together. 

Placed the main bunch of flowers then glued the girl over the top then while 

still wet added more flowers and leaves here and there even getting that green leaf on the right to balance the leaf curving in the opposite direct on the left.

It all came together and finished off with the 'best wishes' sentiment again cut from Gold Mirror card. I was ecstatic till I added that colour list lol..... really thats so me.

 Please be sure to stop by the Just Us Girls challenge blog to see all of the other wonderful inspiration from the team! :) . Even better come and join us with a card.

Thank you so much for coming to visit and I hope you will come again soon.

Challenges:
Penny Black and More :May Challenge : Anything Goes

The watercoloured flower card.

Creative With Stamps Challenge Blog:#2 CAS

The watercoloured flower card.

Time Out Challenge: #57 Inspiration Challenge

'May All your weeds be wild flowers'

Flowers being my inspiration so the first card here. 

2 Creative Chicks Showcase #10 Anything Goes

Best Wishes Card

Seize The Birthday : Adding Dimension

Using the topping as the 'Best Wishes Card' certainly has dimension.

I accidentally added the wrong picture to the link, it was meant to be the flowers with the girl in the evening gown. Sorry

Little Red Wagon Challenge #342: Blooming Fun

Best Wishes Card

Thanks again for coming to look.