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anything goes and colour challenge

AAA Cards is an anything goes challenge this week and Sunday Stamps is a colour challenge. I think I’ve managed to combine the two into this card. I had the idea of embossing the die cut frame and adding some ink on top and it worked quite well, although the frame was quite thin and split slightly in one place. To seal it and reinforce the frame I added a 2nd one behind, which also gave it more dimension. Setting it to one side I took a piece of linen look CS and added the scored lines as you see. I then took an unbranded hollyhock die to which, once cut, I added distress oxides with a water brush. I used Hickory smoke on the frame and on the stems and a mix of Seedless Preserves and Dusty Concord on the flowers and buds. It wasn’t quite right in colour so I added more Hickory Smoke to darken it so it was closer to the colour swatch. I still needed one more colour so I used a punched flower as close as possible to the swatch underneath the buds and a raffia ribbon tied to the sentiment tag which is from MFT with the actual sentiment coming from Joy Clair. After adhering the panel to the white card I also added a few tiny pearls before calling it finished.

Challenge Links:

https://aaacards.blogspot.com/
https://sundaystamps.blogspot.com/

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  2. Very Pretty and WOW, I had to read your description twice about those partial score lines you added. Great card layout and lots of elements that all worked well together.

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    1. Thanks Gayle. I actually had to do the score lines twice as I messed up on the first panel. Then I added two ruled lines to follow for this one and it worked much better.

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  5. Such a delicate flower and I love the colour combo, it works so well with your hollyhock, popping it on top of the circle frame really sets it all off beautifully. Fab CAS card Joanne thanks so much for sharing and playing along with us at AAA Cards.

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  6. So very pretty!! I love the added texture behind your sentiment!! You rocked our color challenge over at Sunday Stamps with your beautiful CAS card. Thanks for joining the fun and playing along with our “Harbinger of Spring” color palette!!
    Deb Horst, DT #SSC329

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