Hello everyone!

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

The combo this week is red, yellow and green – which I thought would be perfect for a little bouquet! To start, I embossed a white card panel with the Diagonals folder (65-019) and added some gold splatters.

Then I got stamping! The tulips are from the Overflowing set (31-062), coloured with distress reinkers and then cut with the coordinating die (51-822).  They turned out a lot darker than I usually colour but I decided to go with that rather than try to lift off a lot of colour.

I embossed a cup from the Brew-Tea-Ful stamp set (31-063) using distress oxide ink and clear powder. I coloured it with distress reinkers and used the coordinating die (51-823) to cut the image.

As I was playing around with a layout, I felt that the teacup needed something to ground it so I rummaged through my die collection and unearthed the Floral Strip die (51-530) – it’s such a beautiful die, I can’t believe I haven’t used it for a VERY long time! Anyway, I used it twice on this card to compensate for that oversight!

The sentiment is from the Happy builder set (30-973).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.