Bright Flowers with Gray and White

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Friday, April 8, 2016

Bright Flowers with Gray and White

For this week's Papertrey Ink "make it Monday" challenge to use a color isolation technique, I stamped a soft neutral background and accented it with a bright bouquet. Thank you, Ashley, for your tutorial and inspiration!

Card details:

Card stock is Papertrey Ink (PTI) stamper's select white, soft stone (light gray), and ocean tides (muted teal).
Dies are PTI bigger blooms and XL rickrack (for the scalloped edge).
The sentiment "thinking of you" is from PTI keep it simple: thinking of you, stamped with PTI ocean tides ink cube.
Flowers are stamped with PTI mini blooms in soft stone ink and bigger blooms in new leaf (green), raspberry fizz (pink) and summer sunrise (yellow) inks.

Created for Operation: Quiet Comfort.

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6 comments:

Marcia Hill said...: Beautiful card Cindy! Love those bright pops of color in your flowers against the neutral background...lovely, lovely card!! :0); April 8, 2016 at 6:21 PM
Lyn said...: Love the colours you used with your flowers so very pretty <3; April 8, 2016 at 11:35 PM
Kim Heggins said...: Such a pretty card!; April 9, 2016 at 10:25 AM
Connie MacFarlane said...: Very pretty card Cindy! Love those colourful little blooms.; April 9, 2016 at 12:41 PM
Kathy Mc said...: Your colorful flowers look awesome with the Soft Stone and Ocean Tides, and great design, Cindy.; April 10, 2016 at 1:46 AM
Patti said...: So pretty! the colors you selected are really pretty! just looks relaxing : )

Patti; April 10, 2016 at 2:16 PM

Operation: Quiet Comfort

Starting in early 2016, most of my cards are now made for Operation: Quiet Comfort.
As explained on their web site, "Operation Quiet Comfort exists solely for the purpose of honoring and comforting America’s military men and women who become sick and injured while serving in harm’s way. We also provide support to those who care for them. We collect, package and ship supplies for U.S. Military men and women receiving care at medical facilities abroad." These packages also include cards with messages of support and encouragement ... "thinking of you, patriotic, thank you, cheerful cards." I'm happy to have the opportunity to support our troops in this way.

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Unless noted otherwise, all my cards are A2 size - 4.25 x 5.5" when folded.

I was making cards long before I started stamping, so for my card images, I sometimes will do my own line drawing, then color it with markers. To use it multiple times, I scan it before coloring, then computer-print it. For more on my drawing process, see "How I Draw," and also "Anybody Can Draw."

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Friday, April 8, 2016