Artistic Outpost is sponsoring this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge & the winner will be receiving a $14 gift certificate from Artistic Outpost.
I love purple, however I often find it to be one of the most difficult colors to design with with … especially when I'm trying to combine multiple shades (not all purples are in the same color family, that's for sure). I wish more companies made great purple designer papers … and I'd love to find a good "grape" purple ink.
For my card, I used a variety of scraps of designer paper from my stash including some Memory Box & Basic Grey papers. I combined Artistic Outpost's Summer House image from the Keeper Plate with a sentiment from the Thai Buddha plate.
The house is stamped in blackberry ink and then I used lime colored pencil and lime Spica glitter marker to color in the grass. I finished with some Hero Arts lime adhesive pearls on the corners of the sentiment.
The sketch is this week's Friday Sketchers.
Well you certainly got purple to work for you here Stephanie, it’s a fab card 🙂
Lovely card – the house looks wonderful in purple, as well as the DP you added. Happy to have AO’s team play along with this weeks challenge.
This is such a beautiful piece. The colors really worked with this wonderful stamp. Great job.
I love this card Barb! Can’t beat purple and green together in all it’s shades. Your stamp is such a perfect summer one!
oof! i totally hear ya on the subject of purples! i totally found this out last year when niece lindsay switched her color allegiance from pink to purple! (all i can say is…go “purple shopping” around halloween; the backs & coordinating papers from a bunch of the holiday lines are nice purple prints or purple-friendly contrasts!)
of course having said all that, i would NEVER have guessed from this lovely card that you had ANY trouble pulling it together, it looks both amazing and effortless!!!!! ♥♥♥
Beautiful card, luv it in the PDC colors this week, so serene!
this is one of my fav’s and your card does Depict the saying..the Background PP is perfect for this image.
TFP on PDC
connie paxman
Love the purple-great image you used. tfs
This is just lovely, Stephanie! The image and sentiment are just so serene and wonderful! Thanks for joining the Play Date Cafe this week!!
You did a wonderful job with our color challenge! I just love the sketch of the card–and the stamps are FAB too:) Thanks so much for joining in the fun at the PDCC! Love it:)
You really made these vibrant colors work : )
So great to have you play with us and be a part of this week’s Play Date Cafe team : )
Fantastic use of the colors. Lovely card! Glad you joined us as at PDCC this week!
Beautiful card.
GREAT take on the color challenge! Absolutely fabulous!!
This is lovely! I love the layout of your card, and the image works so well with it. I particularly like the way you’ve done the grass! It looks fab against the purple! It’s great to have you playing along with us at the Play Date Cafe!
lovely, great image!
Oh my goodness, this image is fabulous and you did an amazing color combining the various shades of purple. Awesome card!
Ohh, this is fabulous!
Beautiful! I’m so glad you could be a part of our team again this week, a great addition to AO
A very beautiful card Barb!
This is so beautiful – love how you’ve layered the feature colors!