I finally had the chance to do Lucy's color challenge. She has such a talent with pastel colors, and I tend to gravitate toward more bold shades, so I wanted to see if I could make these softer shades work.
Her challenge (light blue, white & light kraft) was inspired by this wonderful John Lewis Cushion with a bonus for incorporating birds into your design.
I used this week's Card Patterns Sketch for my design.
The Hero Arts Bird in Circle was stamped in Creamy Brown Chalk ink on a scrap of K& Company Actopus to Zelephant Cloud paper. The Hero Arts Branch Background was stamped in Versamark Champagne Dazzle ink on the light kraft squares.
I finished the design by coloring the circle, birds and flowers with Pebbles Shimmer Chalk to give them a bit more definition against the cloud background & by adding a few tiny pearls to the flower centers.
Steph this is just gorgeous! Love these colors together! Thanks for playing at Card Patterns!
Love your soft colors on the image.
what a beautiful card Stef! The soft color palette against the brown is lovely!
Gorgeous!Love the soft colours and that bird image is so adorable.
wow!!! ♥WOW!!!!!!♥ ok, not only is this an amazing card on its own AND a brilliant take on lucy’s challenge… (both for colors and avian fabulosity!) …it’s making me say, “HEY–WOW! stamping RIGHT ON a patterned paper b/g is AWESOME!!!” ♥
(’cause i paper piece…OR… i stamp on solids and maybe add a bit of collage or b/g stamping…but i don’t think i’ve ever done THAT…which now seems like a HUGE OVERSIGHT on my part!!!!!) 🙂 🙂 🙂
What a wonderful idea to stamp this gorgeous image over a cloud background! LOVE how this turned out, and these colors worked perfectly!
Gorgeous design!! Congrats on your win at Lucy’s challenge!
Congratulations on winning Lucy’s challenge…very pretty card!
Your card is beautiful, Stef! Congrats on your win!
Beautiful Card!