Going Green

Morning All

It's Friday again and that means a new challenge from The Daring Cardmakers, and predictably enough there's a bit of a link to the date in there this time. 

  

It's Lythan here today with a new challenge for you
* * * * Green with a Glimmer of Gold * * * *
Well it had to be really didn't it.

I'm sure we will not be the only challenge blog to feature green this week but when St Patrick's Day falls on a Friday what else can you do? 

So how about some cards featuring green and a dash of leprechaun's gold if you like!
The team have made some awesomely beautiful cards to get those creative juices flowing (click here to see), so why not join in this week?

Green isn't really my favourite colour to craft wit, at least not as the main colour, so that in itself provided a bit of a challenge for me.  Over the last week or so I've been playing about with a bit of a stencilled background theme, using more than one stencil and a few different inks to add depth to the design - so I thought I'd continue the theme and see what happened.
The first stencil used is Mini Mosaic Tiles (Crafters Workshop), which I inked through with 4 or 5 different green inks.  I also added a little rub of gold Alchemy Wax (Imagination Crafts)
The second stencil is my current favourite; Mini Window Screen (also Crafters Workshop).  I used gold Sparkle Medium (Imagination Crafts) to stencil this time, and I rather like how this, smaller stencil ties the two layers together

Happy with the results I now had to decide what to put onto the background - as of course I hadn't planned ahead!  

Generally speaking when I can't decide what to do I make a flower or two.

In this case one nice big flower would fill a lot of the space, and its ages and ages since I last made a gorgeous peony flower (and peony season is getting closer), so decision made,

I wasn't sure whether to make a gold one or see how a green one turned out (wasn't convinced about the green), but Lythan's challenge had Green as the main element and if I made a gold flower then my colour palette would be more gold and green.

Actually, I've quite happy with the flower, it looks ok in green

Tools and Materials

Smooth White card (PDA Woodward)

Green card for flower (Bazzill)

Stencils;
Mini Mosaic Tiles and Mini Window Screen (both Crafters Workshop)

Various green inks

Alchemy Wax and Sparkle Medium  (both Imagination Crafts)

Punch Bunch punch for flower petals

Medium Ball tool for shaping petals (Rainbow Sugarcraft)

Gold card for swirls with Leafy Sprigs die set (Spellbinders)

Pearl and gold wire spray for added detail

That's it for today, I hope you like what you see.  
Don't forget to head over to the DCM BLOG to see the other DT cards - the blog looks so beautiful today!

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Have a great weekend

Other Challenges:
The Moving Along with the Times   Handmade Flowers