one Sunday card…

I don’t have time to participate in any more of today’s challenges, but I hope to do some catching up later! The challenges are a great starting point for your cards and help you to try new things! I was assigned to make a sample for Trudee’s challenge and this is what I came up with. I really wanted to stamp the background, etc. but the inspiration piece has such great clean lines that I also wanted to keep it simple. If you are a fan club member, you can view Trudee’s inspiration piece here. She used a photo from a paint sample booklet. I used wave scissors to mimmick the top of the curtains and brads where the words are at the top. I wanted to use circles (from the plates) but decided on ovals instead. The image was watercolored with a water brush, pulling the ink from the lids of the inkpads. I used the water brush and the Bashful ink to also watercolor the edges of the main image. I hope you like it. Take a look around you….inspiration can be found in the most un-expected places! Look at the colors and patterns in clothing, the way words and pictures are layed out in advertisements, food packaging, magazines, etc.

stamps- Warm Words, Penny Black flower (exact name unknown)
cs- Saffron, Mustard, Night of Navy, Iridescent white
ink- Black, Night of Navy, Bashful, Artichoke, Saffron
access- oval punches, ProvoCraft wavy scissors