It was fun to be home and to be able to play in my craft room again after being gone for three weeks. To get started, I joined in the Color Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers today.
The colors included SU’s Rich Razzleberry. Since I didn’t have any of that color, I added some of the Regal Rose ink to the Bravo Burgundy ink to lighten it up by coloring directly onto the rubber stamp with markers. That brought the color a little closer to the challenge color. Plus the Bravo Burgundy marker was used around all of the punched edges. Love how that helps those edges to ‘pop’.
A portion of the bird image was added to the inside of the card, as well. It’s always fun to add a little something there, too!
Hope your week has started off well. It’s actually sunny here in Seattle today!
So hubby and I are threatening to pull out our bikes and go for a ride.
Happy Crafting!
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Stamps: SU Punch Potpourri and Bring on the Cake
Papers: PTI Vintage Cream and Dark Chocolate
Inks: SU Bravo Burgundy and Regal Rose
Accessories: Spellbinders Square and Fleur de Lis Squares Nestabilities Dies; Kaiser Flatback Chocolate Pearls; Prima Flowers; SU Very Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon and Bird Punch
This is absolutely beautiful Susan!
Absolutely LOVE this, Susan! Great job on the bird and I think I”m going to have to add that Nestie to my wish list 😉 Great card.
Really beautiful, Susan. Love the birdie peeking out on the inside.
Beautiful card, inside and out!
Susan this is GORGEOUS!!~
This is gorgeous Susan!! WOW!! I love your frame, and that bird is just stunning!!
Stunning card, Susan! Love how you colored the bird and that white frame really pops on the chocolate paper – really striking!
Hope you had a nice bike ride! We will be in Seattle this summer, so I hope it will be sunny then too!!
Wonderful card! Love, love your idea with outline around the branch! Really like how you added color to the bird! So creative!
Beautiful design! The bird inside is perfect!
very pretty coloring of the bird, love the flourish detail and your framing is beautiful
This is a lovely card, Susan, the two tone colouring of the bird with the little lacy detail is so effective.
This is beautiful. Gorgeous border! Love what you did with the bird punch.
Lovely card, Susan! And what a great idea to mix the colors when you didn’t have the challenge color. I like the shaded effect that gives on the image! And it’s beautifully framed by that die cut!
Glad to see you back, Susan! Love that pop of color against the gorgeous frame and dark bg.
Thanks for the blog visit!…enjoy those bikes..we’re waiting for a basket for our puppy so he can go on the bike too!
Love the colors on that bird! I love that Spellbinders die, too…gotta add that one to my ever-growing list! 🙂
I LOVE the BB and white here Susan. It is beautiful. What a great color combination. I don’t have any of these SU colors or I would case.. Welcome home and happy stamping.
Susan this is BEAUTIFUL!!~
Hi Susan! so good to hear from you tonight! I always get excited to have you visit my blog!!! Lovely card..love the way the nestie fluer de lis ties in so pretty with the design on the birds..very eye catching!
Classy… I love all the white and against the color it really stands out. Your birdie is colored so pretty, great job.
What a sweet bird in lovely colors!
I love how you colored this bird and branch! It gives a whole new life to this great punch! Your card is just gorgeous!
Hi Susan: Thanks for the visit today — so nice to hear from you — I don’t get out from under my rock too often! I enjoyed my stroll through your blog here today — LOVE this card — so very pretty!!! Hope all is well — enjoyed your family pictures!!!!
Just beautiful!!! Love that little bird!