This month’s color challenge at Just Cards is to make a card with hot pink, lime green, orange and bright blue. The challenge is open until midnight, June 9. Come join in the fun!
Here is the card I made for an example.
I made the flower pot, tag and leaves using the Playful Pockets template from Hot Off The Press. I made the flowers using one of my old Coluzzle templates. The Happy Birthday greeting is a Dazzle peel-off. I sponged the background using Peeled Paint and Spun Glass distress ink.
The criteria for the June swap at Paper Wishes is to make a card with only one layer, minimal embellishments, only two colors and at least two stamps. I was stumped at first and then I decided this would be a perfect opportunity to practice Tangling. What I came up with is really a hybrid, since it's not entirely hand drawn. I did, after all, need to use stamps.
All of the plants and the greeting are stamped. Everything else is drawn. I used my 15 Butterflies and Dragonflies and my 15 Lovely Labels templates to draw the butterfly and label outlines. I definitely need to work on my shading technique, but I do like the way the butterfly pops off the card, so I must’ve done something right. This was a really fun card to make, but was also very time consuming.
