Pink and Grey for August

 

 Hello!

Welcome to my little crafting place! Here's where I share the things I've been making, and sometimes other bits of waffle!

Friday is Daring Cardmakers Day and this week Shabneez gas chosen the August moodboard to inspire us

  August Elemental Inspiration

It's Shabneez here and as it's the first Friday in the month it is the elemental challenge for the month this week. 

 You can choose any three elements you like from the image above and as usual the colour palette count as one element.

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The grey colours with the pink is so far away from any colour palette I've usec lately that I had to stick with that as my first element, then there are flowers, so they had to be on my card. Element three was going to be a butterfly - but I had a change of plan there as you can see.

I wanted to make a stencilled background and when I looked through my folder I found this striped one by Funky Fossil and thought it echoed the bars of the birdcage so used it with two shades of pink Nuvo mousse and then a careful 'wipe' of black ink (I didn't want it to be too dark and I don't have a grey ink pad)

As I was putting the folder away I spotted one from The Crafters Workshop that I'd forgotten about.  It has three birdcages hangiong from a branch so I masked off all but one of the cages and stencilled that in black.  

At this point I was ready to di some die cutting but OH was working and on what seemed to be a never-ending  call, so I decided to make rolled roses and hope that by the time I'd made enough, he'd have finished! I coloured thin card with a couple of shades of pink mousse, then hand cut the spirals to make the roses. I still had to wait for his call to finish! But eventually, after I'd sat a while with the card and dies in the plates ready to go his call ended!

The lovely leafy sprig is an old die set from Spellbinders, it's no longer available from the store, but its one of those that comes in useful time and time again! I spend a small fortune on new dies, but love to use the old ones too!

Once I'd got the sprigs and the flowers added, I chose a black and white sentiment and added a few gems to finish.

 

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Thank you so much for coming by.

 

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

Kathy xx