Sunday 26 August 2012

Love the colour Purple

Today's card came about with me playing around with fabric.  I needed to make a card using fabric for my upcoming challenge over at Die Cut Diva's...  ( an early notification for any of you who play with us over there).  I had some cotton type fabric that I picked up at Spotlight and I used a Spellbinders die to cut out some of the flowers in the Carnation die set.... I went to spray them with some gold Pearlised water.... but they picked up the Purple dye on the base of my spray box and went a pretty lilac colour....

So decided to use Hero Arts sketch (loosely)

Birthday Wishes


And as I made my own embellishment, it's a double whammy for Hero Arts Challenge.
The background was stamped with HA Chevron stamp and Milled Lavender distress inks.  I used Spellbiners circles and a Die-Namics label for the sentiment banner.  The sentiment is also from a Hero Arts set.

I am also entering this into the Anything Floral/Handmade Flowers challenge over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

I've been busy working on some of my cards for upcoming challenges over at Red Carpet Studio.   Opening Premiere weekend starts 31 August, so do come over and join us.   The first challenge starts 2 Sept.

Hope you all had a great weekend... I've had a great time getting inky.  Only 4 days of work then my holiday starts!!!!!  yeah!!!!!!!!!!!

Dawn

15 comments:

Scrumplescrunch said...

Hello Dawn
Wow! Love that flower, it is soft, and I can almost smell the sweet perfume, a beautiful tactile element to a card.
Smiles:)
Sue

Dotty Jo said...

How lovely - I adore purple! Jo x

CinnamonSally said...

Gorgeous flower Dawn, love the pretty purple!

Barb said...

I love that flower!!! It makes such a beautiful focal point on your wonderful card, Dawn!

Greta said...

LOVE this flower! How fun it is when a boo-boo actually comes out great!

kiwimeskreations said...

WOW what a fabulous card Dawn - love it! The chevron b/g is gorgeous behind that stunning flower!
Blessings
Maxine

Barb said...

Lovely Ü
Barb

Jan Hennings said...

so beautiful!

Jay Gee said...

The fabric flower looks gorgeous Dawn and what a fabulous colour :)

Elizabeth Allan said...

Dawn your gorgeous fabric flower is a show-stopper!

Maureen Morton said...

Are you kidding, Dawn? What a happy "mistake" this purple flower is! Love it - great texture, too! Perfect for this sketch. So glad that you have some holiday time ahead - enjoy!

Anonymous said...

Hi
The handmade flower makes a pretty focal on your card.
Thank you for sharing with us at FSC.
Wishes
Lynne

Monika Reeck said...

stunning flower and love all the purple on your card...great take on the sketch Dawn

Suzanne C said...

Elegant! Love the CAS design and your flower is gorgeous.

Mrs.B said...

Thats a beautiful flower on your card, lovely colour.
Thanks for joining us at FSC
Avril