Thinking outside the box for a colour challenge

The latest Crafty Collaborations colour challenge blog hop had me thinking outside the box. First thoughts on seeing the colours is trees, but I really didn’t want to go that route. When you see the colours you’ll know what I mean!

I had the Framed Florets Bundle and Fitting Florets paper sitting on my craft desk from another project. So, I decided to attempt to make a new project using them. So glad that I did. I have a few December birthdays to make for and I think that my Mum will really like this card.

I made use of the Soft Succulent paper as a background for the frame. The flower images were coloured using a mixture of both Stampin’ Blends (Soft Succulent) and Watercolor Pencils (Early Espresso and Garden Green). Of course I also had to add a touch of Clear Wink of Stella and used that as the medium for painting with the watercolour pencils.

Both the frame and the bough of flowers have been added using Stampin’ Dimensionals (foam pads). The inside was stamped using one of the smaller flower images and only the centre has been coloured (Early Espresso Watercolor pencil and Clear Wink of Stella).

I did fill the top of the die-cut flowers with lots of stems – a great way to use up scraps. As you can see, there are mostly Garden Green and Early Espresso ones, but there are a couple of Soft Succulent ones thrown in for good measure.

Please take a few minutes to check out the projects from all the other people taking part in the blog hop. You’ll find ideas and inspiration from all around the Stampin’ Up! world. Here are the links to the others –

Blog Hop Index

Supply List

Details of the supplies used for this card are

I hope you have enjoyed checking out my card for November’s Crafty Challenge. What’s more, I hope that you agree that I was thinking outside of the box. If you don’t have a UK demonstrator and would like to shop with me, you can do so by either

• Clicking on the pictures above – this will take you to the item to my Online Shop, or
• Contacting me via email with your list and I’ll be in touch re payment.

Happy stamping.

Fiona xx

Please note

(i) When shopping online and ordering less that £150 worth of products, don’t forget to use the host code – EGC9RXVH (valid until 30 November). I’ll be sending you a little something extra in December if you do. 

(ii) Spending more than £150, please don’t use the code. You will have your own rewards to spend. This means you can order extra products for free from any of the current catalogues or clearance rack.

(iii) If you have a large wish list of items why not join the Acorns? You select £130 (€175) worth of new product and pay only £99 (€129). Your kit ships to you for free. You can find out more information here.