Ombre Birthday Just Add Ink #348

Good morning beautiful people, I hope you all kept cool yesterday, I had a lovely relaxing day making cards while the puppies sprawled out on the floor trying to keep cool. Today's card was one I prepared yesterday, and it is based on the Just Add Ink - Just Add Ombre challenge.

I love the look of Ombre things, so when I saw this challenge I as excited to give it a go, and I decided I had to play with one of my favourite colours, purple for this card.

     

     

I wanted to keep it pretty simple and let the Ombre speak for itself, I also decided to use up some of my white card scraps for this one, hence the two sections of the background being of different sizes, though I think it works well.

I used my ink pads and sponge daubers to create the ombre background, on top of this I decided to do a simple white embossed flower from the Butterfly Basics set to add a little interest without totally overshadowing my Ombre background.

I was originally planning to have a plain white panel next to the flower however I couldn't help having a bit more a play so I grabbed out my Gorgeous Grunge set and stamping in all three colours up the blank panel having the colours progress in the opposite direction so the lightest colour was at the bottom allowing me to stamp the sentiment where it would be most legible.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Butterfly Basics Clear Stamp Set [138816] $63.00	Gorgeous Grunge Clear Stamp Set [130517] $34.00
Balloon Adventures Photopolymer Stamp Set [142823] $45.00	Elegant Eggplant Solid Baker's Twine [141685] $5.25

I hope you all have an amazing Sunday, I'll be at work at the green box today, (aka Bunnings) pondering what I can create when I get home, am I the only one who is always obsessing over being back in my craft room? Have a great day and happy crafting.

Another Year of Adventures - Avenue 613 #194

Welcome back to my blog! So I was scouring the Internet for something to create last night and came across the 613 Avenue Create challenge blog, I instantly loved the challenge behind sticking to 3 different criteria, CAS (Clean and Simple), something I struggle with as I tend to not know when to stop adding. Make the Sentiment the Focus, another thing I struggle with for similar reasons to my CAS issue, and use blue, a colour I often forget to reach for.

So I got excited at the prospect of a challenge and after much thinking, and a few mind changes, (I kept trying to over-complicate my idea) I finally decided on my game plan which actually would be CAS.

          

So I hope you like the card I came up with, I wanted to try and make it a little more masculine then my normal cards, because why not challenge myself to the extreme! Plus it is always helpful to have more masculine card options out there.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Balloon Adventures Photopolymer Stamp Set [142823] $45.00

Gorgeous Grunge Clear Stamp Set [130517] $34.00

Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706] $58.00

That's all from me for today I hope your day is amazing and you are able to make time for the things that relax you.