Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge using some products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

The combo this week is orange, yellow and green – another set that’s perfect for autumnal cards! In fact when I saw this combo, I thought about doing a die cut leaf card…. but I really want to try my new mica stains for that idea and they haven’t arrived yet… hopefully they will get here this week!

Anyway, I LOVE Chinese Lanterns and thought that the beautiful Fall Flourish stamp (40-783) would work perfectly with the challenge colours. I coloured the image with my beloved Twinkling H2O paints and then fussy cut around the image – which wasn’t as tricky as I was fearing.

I decided that the yellow would serve as my backdrop and used a stencil from the Background Basics set (25-021) – I love how there are several sizes of stencils in this set – especially as I often use UK card sizes which are different from the US sizes. For this card, I used a larger rectangle stencil and blended Squeezed Lemonade/Scattered Straw distress inks before splattering some yellow paint on top.

I adhered the image with some foam tape and added some sequins and the sentiment from the Fall Fence set (30-931) to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.