Tuesday 5 August 2014

Everyday

Hello and Welcome.  As most of you already know, I love blue.  It seems to be my go-to colour when playing with inks and stamps.  I wanted to play along with the challenge at Splitcoast so I grabbed my stamps and ink and started creating. 
I began by stamping my background using a stamp from Impression Obsession.  It is part of their 'Cover a Card' series of stamps.  I inked it with various shades of Distress inks in blues, sprayed with water and stamped.  I love the impression that was left behind.
When that was dry, I stamped the flowers from Magenta and Unity with black Memento ink then added the sentiment from Penny Black.
 
I am adding my card to these challenges:
 
Crafty Boots- FLOWERS
 
Dream Valley- FAVOURITE COLOURS
 
Stamp and Create- ANYTHING GOES
 
 
Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.
 
Supplies:  stamps- Magenta, IO, Penny Black, Unity/ Distress inks/ Mini Mister/ Bl Memento ink

10 comments:

Dotty Jo said...

That background stamp is fabulous, and I love how you created an ombre effect by using different shades of blue. Totally fabulous card, Jo x

Dee's Craft Room said...

Fab card, I love your background and the silouette image is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing your work with all of us at Crafty Boots Challenges.

Dionne

joy said...

Lovely card - I have that background and this is a wonderful way to use it, Karen. Blue is my favorite color, too and I always enjoy seeing your blue creations.

shirley-bee said...

Love that pointillist background, Karen!

Mrs Beez said...

I love the original background of your card. Great design. Thanks for joining in at Crafty Boots Challenges this time.

Toni said...

Love how your background turned out! Iit looks like bokeh without having to do all the tiny dots by hand!

Lisa Lara said...

Beautiful Karen. I love that cool bg.

maria's knutselplezier said...

you are so bussy lately that I have mist some beautiful cards, but as always I still admire your beautiful work a lot, every time I have to say wow, wow, wow, so I'm still following you and I injoy comming at your blog!!!Its a real treat!!

Greetings
Maria

Pat said...

Love the card and the background you created is just perfect!

melsanford said...

Such a beautiful, elegant card! I love the gorgeous blues :-) Thank you for joining us at Dream Valley! Love 'n' hugs, Mel xx