Saturday 2 April 2011

AnnaBelle Stamps - Twofer!

I think I must be psychic! I made this card I'm showing you today on Wednesday for AnnaBelle Stamps monthly bling sketch challenge ABSC036, I just hadn't got around to posting it here to my blog yet. Lo and behold when AnnaBelle Stamps blog posted their weekly challenge yesterday, the theme is 'Say It In......Orange, Purple and Neutral'. These were the exact colours that I had used for the sketch challenge, so that made it a 'twofer' card! This certainly isn't a colour combination that I would normally use either, I think it works though!


For my images, I used white cardstock sponged with Tim Holtz Old Paper Distress Ink. I stamped two flower images from Hero Arts Poetic Petals stamp set, the 3rd piece is stamped with a Kaisercraft sentiment and the small Darkroom Door silhouette flowers are inked with TH Rusty Hinge Distress Ink and stamped over it. The larger flowers are coloured with Prismacolor pencils and odourless mineral spirit. The background patterned paper (Basic Grey Blush) is sponged around the edges with TH Rusty Hinge and Walnut Stain Distress Inks and stamped with a larger Darkroom Door silhouette flower with TH Rusty Hinge Distress Ink.

I like the vintage look of my card, please let me know what you think! Hope you are having a great weekend in your part of the world!

13 comments:

Carole M. said...

...the overall effect is beautiful and the colours look good!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful card! Love the colouring on it, its fab!

The Other Patti Sue said...

This is stunning... so very pretty! Thanks so much for playing along with us at AnnaBelle Stamps!

Andrea said...

This is simply stunning Lyn! The images are gorgeous!
Thanks for playing along with us this week, and combining two of our challenges!!
Hugs,
Andrea

Sue said...

You are just waaaay to clever Lyn, you definately must have an psychic link!! I love what how you have combine the challenges, those flowers are so beautiful!!
Thanks for playing along with us at AnnaBelles with you twofer! :)

Kerry Steger said...

Hi Lyn,
I thought this card matched the sketch as soon as I saw it!! Love your colouring - I have never tried the pencils before - very effective!

B said...

Lovely take on the sketch! Love that you tilted the images and the fun gems!

Liz Weber said...

Hi Lyn, your card is so pretty and what a neat trick using the colour scheme before you even knew! Love the pretty flower images, love how well you make the sketch and colours go! Thanks for playing along with us again at AnnaBelle Stamps!

A Consuming Passion said...

FABulous card Lyn and great for both challenges!!!
Good Luck.

Anonymous said...

Really beautiful and such a lovely take on the sketch!! HUGS

Anonymous said...

This is just lovely Lyn! I think the colours are wonderful together and the flowers are just beautiful!

Shirley said...

Stunning. I love your colors!

Kathi said...

Beautiful flowers with amazing coloring.