Colour Creations Blog Hop - Week 10 - Blushing Bride

 

We are at week 10 already on this years colour creation blog hop can you believe it! That is crazy! Where is the year going? This week we are looking at the colour Blushing Bride, a kind of dusty pink!

I have 2 cards for you this week. One I made a little while ago and then one a little bit more recent that my daughter asked me to make for a person at her work that was leaving.

Both cards I decided to use a sketch for the layouts. Over on Dawn Stampin' Thoughts she has 200+ card sketches. 

I use the sketch as a guide and then as they are in inches and convert them to cm's and sometimes I add extra layers!

For my first card I have used the sketch and added some layers. I have used the Blessings of Home stamp set. This is a lovely stamp set and I have gold embossed the sentiment and the flower.

The Designer Series Paper that I have layered on Mossy Meadow Card behind my flower is from the Awash in Beauty paper pack, it is such a gorgeous paper pack! I used the Blender Pen to add a little of the Blushing Bride ink to the flower as well as some a little Daffodil delight and a little old olive for the leaves. I used the Stylish Shapes Dies for the larger sentiment.

For the second card I used this sketch as my starting point. I was asked to do a pink card by my daughter for a lady who had been on placement at her work and she wanted to give her a card when she left. I still had all my product easy at hand so I used the same colours and DSP for this card and added a couple of things.

For this card however I changed up the stamp sets. I used the sentiment from the cup of tea stamp set which I think is a great one for just this kind of occasion. I have paired it with the Colour and Contour stamp set which coordinates with the Scalloped Contours dies.

For this card I have used a card base of of Thick Basic White then a layer of Mossy Meadow and a layer of Blushing Bride. The Blushing Bride Layer has been embossed with with the Timeworn Type 3D embossing folder. A Layer of DSP from the Awash in Beauty and that is wrapped in the gorgeous new Rose Gold and White Striped ribbon.

The flower is stamped in Mossy Meadow and then in Blushing Bride and cut out with the Scalloped contour dies and the sentiment with the Stylish Shapes Dies!

Hope you get some inspiration about using sketches as a starting point and think about using them to help kick of some of your creativity!

If you have any questions about these projects or would like some of these products to get you started please do not hesitate to contact me.

Now is the time to head to the next person on our journey of Blushing Bride and this week we will be heading to Christine Blain I can't wait to see what she has for us, she is the master of using Designer Series Paper and Male cards not sure it will be a male card with this gorgeous pink. She is always so creative so just hit the next blog button and you will go straight there.

If at anytime the next blog buttons stop working just come back to my blog and you can head to our weekly host the lovely Cathy Proctor and she will have the list of the people playing along so you can continue your journey into Blushing Bride from there: Cathy's Blog.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today, take care.