Tuesday 7 November 2017

CAS Colours & Sketches #248 - Colours

Hey!

Happy Tuesday and happy November! I can't believe we are into another new month, these days and weeks are flying by so quickly I can hardly keep up!

The weather here in the NE of the UK seems to all of a sudden turned very cold and wintery. I don't mind the cold as long as it isn't raining and cold! Luckily so far its been dry/sunny and cold!

Anyway, back to why you are here!

A new month means a new hostess at CAS Colours & Sketches. This month our hostess is Samantha and she has come up with some wonderful inspiration, including this colour combo HERE and below to start us off...




And here is how I have used the colours...




Greens, not my strongest colour to work with and when I use a green I tend to choose more earthy greens or bright lime greens. So I was a little stumped at first when I saw this combo! 

When I get stuck I often turn to Instagram or Pinterest for inspiration and thats what I did. As I don't have these colours in Stampin' Up! ink, (I could have matched close colours) but had them in card stock, I was looking for a design to incorporate card.

I was heavily inspired by Laurie Schmidlin's striped snowflake card on this post HERE. I am drawn to anything with a snowflake on it and even more so when there are stripes involved too!




I trimmed a panel of white card and simply adhered strips of alternating Tranquil Tide and Emerald Envy card, leaving a gap in between. I then die cut the panel using a MFT stitched die. 

The snowflake is the medium one from the Uniko Designer Die Snowflake Trio die cut from a silver shimmer CS. I bought this from The Papermill many many moons ago and only have small off cuts left :( The sentiment is from Pure Florals: Poinsettia stamped and embossed in Silver Dollar EP. Both the snowflake & striped panel are adhered to a white card base using half thickness foam adhesive.

That's all from me today & thanks for stopping by, but if you need some more inspiration using the challenge be sure to hop on over HERE to see what the rest of the CAS Colours & Sketches Design Team have made.

Hugs



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9 comments:

  1. Bold and wonderfully striking, Bev ... that subtle shine on the snowflake is delicious! Hugs, Anita :)

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  2. Wow! I love this and that snowflake is just gorgeous!

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  3. GASP! That is all...GASP! Love this, Bev!
    Hugs~c

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  4. Love those stripes, Bev. Such a bold design - and the snowflake is perfect. Great use of this week's colors!!

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  5. This is gorgeous! Love the bold green stripes and the wonderful silver snowflake! xxx

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  6. I love the bold and modern look of your card! Your cards are always amazing!!!

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  7. Gorgeous card, Bev! Love the alternating stripes and the silver snowflake!

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  8. The snowflake looks great against the boldly striped background!

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