Color Hues #62

Good afternoon. I can't believe that we are mid way through April already but we must be as there is a new colour pairing over at Color Hues. Here's my take on the new colours.

I was inspired by the current challenge at The Flower Challenge where their theme is to focus on the background, so chose to combine a BA post for Uniko for this card using Uniko's BB Modern Layered Floral set.

To start, I chose an A4 panel of thick card, as I was going to use a faux watercolour technique and it needed to hold up to the water I would be adding. Using the floral element of the set, I inked up with Altenew's Wisteria, spritzed with water before stamping. I then added some darker Hydrangea ink to the center and pushed it around the stamp with a wet brush to get rid of any harsh edges, before stamping again. This was repeated until the panel was covered. As the ink dries it separates a little to give the soft effect. The same technique was repeated with the leaf stamp using Altenew's Bamboo ink and a darker green Zig watercolour brush marker this time. When dry I added the dark centers to the flowers with the detail stamp and Altenew's Andromeda ink.

On a die cut panel of matching card, I stamped the sentiment from Doodle Flowers, attached it to some torn vellum and placed some silver thread behind before adding onto my stamped panel. A few silver sequins complete. My panel was trimmed to leave a narrow frame when added to anA6 note card.

So where will this color combination take you? We'd love to see your floral and other ideas in our gallery and if you need more inspiration there's plenty from the DT here.

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