Thursday, 26 November 2009

Orange, Blue and Green

Was going great guns with this when suddenly realised I had an appointment at Podiatry at 1 pm so had to stop at 12.30 to get ready - and all I had to do was upload the card!

This is my entry for the Play Date Cafe challenge this week, set by my friend Sarah. At first I thought it would be difficult to include the colours she had chosen, I love blue and orange, love blues and greens - but thought "all three!" I love Sarah's journal page where she got the idea from, but then I love all of Sarah's journalling.

Anyway, with the bauble from Elusive Images I managed to get all of the colours in and I stamped and embossed it in a dark blue. You would not believe all the shades of orange I used with my Twinkling H2o's. Eight of them, and in case you wonder what they were here is the list: Persimmon, Gold Dust, Ginger Peach, Mandarin Blush, Yellow Rose, Deep Coral, Dreamsicle and Orange Peel.

Mounted on two different shades of blue with a background created with blues and greens, a thin mount of silver and finally on a dark green main card, (I managed to get my squares cut perfectly because I used my Spellbinders dies) and it was complete. Had to guess the fine silver mount as they don't "step" so finely. For once my cutting with a scalpel went well.

One more card for sending - must get those envelopes done as I got my first two Christmas cards when I came back from Podiatry ... and only one was from overseas!