Subtle Colour Challenge

We're sponsoring Less Is More Challenge blog again this month so I thought I would use their fun challenge as my inspiration for today's post - the challenge is to use subtle colours on a CAS card.

I decided to have a play with watercolour for my "subtle" colour and allow it to run down the london skyscape die by SugarPea Designs to give the appearance of subtle reflections on the Thames.   I just die cut the scape using water colour paper, made it all very wet with a water spray and then dropped the rainbow colours on using watercolour paints.

I blended the background of the base card with weathered wood oxide ink and then lightly sprayed that too and dabbed it dry to remove the colour and give a feel of rain to match the brighter day sentiment which comes from Avery Elle's Shine Bright stamp along with the birds I added to the sky.   I emphasised the rain with little diagonal slashes with a white pencil.

It's a really fun technique to make a CAS card and its really quick too!   Hope  you will be inspired to give it a try and do have a go at interpreting the subtle colour theme over at Less is More too!

Tara

Brighter Days

Hi, Jenny here hoping you have a good start to the week.

I'm also hoping the temperature starts to rise and we can finally get back to spring which is 

reflected in the sentiment on today's card....

I was rather smitten with the new layering stamp sets illustrated by Kamo in the recent Waffleflower release. They have an old story book feel to them harking back to the days of Enid Blyton so I wanted to try and build a scene and use the classic old print colours.

This set is called Biking Girls and it does take a bit of practice to get the layers lined up right. My advice is to use blacks and greys with a strong colour as an accent whilst you practice on scrap paper but the style of artwork is quite forgiving anyhow if you don't get it quite right.

I stamped the girl and her bike onto separate card so I could trim her out with scissors. The set comes with a few spots to add texture to the ground but I decided to use Avery Elle's Shine Bright and Modern Trees from MFT to add some scenery.

As always, the sentiment gave me the most trouble.... what to put? this stamp set could be used for lots of occasions and then where to put it within the scene!! quite pleased with my final decision.... anyone else have the same problem??

  

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x