Pretty in Pink (and Lime)

Hello

Shock!  It's been raining this morning - not much, but the ground is actually wet.    Oh well - as the grass around here is now brown rather than green, I guess the gardens could do with it - but I hope the sun comes back soon!

We have a new Daring Cardmakers challenge this week and Svenja is definitely in a Summery, Zingy, Sherbet mood as she's set a colour theme for us this time:

 "It's Svenja here and this week I want to try and preserve that summer feeling just a little longer with some mouth-watering fresh & bright colours: use a combo of

Raspberry and Lime 
 

Sounds like a bit of an odd couple to you?  Not at all - just check out our BLOG to see the Design Team's fab creations!"

Pink and green is a wonderful colour combo, and I was looking forward to doing this one.  So why was it like getting blood out of a stone.  I think the card I eventually managed to finish was my third attempt!  One started off quite well,  but then I realised I hated the focus piece I'd started to make and I couldn't decide where else to go with it - so rather than end up making a hash of it, I set it aside to deal with later!  
Next I used a layered fancy die to make a centrepiece, but that was as far as that one went - am I the only one who has days like that?
So I cleared the decks and started all over again.

Info:

Coloured card all Bazzill

I cut a white square and slightly larger green square for the background.

 Using the frame lasercut as a guide I cut an aperture in the white square, then a larger one in the green layer.

 Next I used a series of increasingly deep shades of raspberry pink inks and the "Mini Spinning Tops" 6x6 stencil (Crafters Workshop) over the white square.

Once dry, I adhered the layers together with 3D glue. sliding a rectangle of printed lime green card into the aperture.  This piece is cut from some packaging I saved as it was so pretty - I think it was the backing card from some KandCo goodies!

I used black ink to colour the gorgeous chipboard frame from August's Craft Box

and when dry adhered it in place

Butterflies:

 smallest from the Butterfly Trio set (Memory Box)

the larger one is an Apple Blossom die (CraftStashUK) 

Handmade Flowers: 

Smallest is made using an EK Success punch. 

 For the other two I used a couple of build-a-flower type dies 

(Cheery Lynn and Britannia dies). 

I have two that are very similar because I didn't check the measurements.... but hey, as I rarely make just one flower, now I can cut two lots of petals at the same time!

Leaves:

Die cut using my favourite Leafy Swirls twosome (Spellbinders)

Tiny pink gems for a little bit of bling.  

 

That's it for this time, thank you so much for visiting, and for your comments -  like most bloggers, I really do appreciate it when you take the time to leave a message.
Have a lovely weekend