Thursday, February 19, 2015

A Four-Fer

I surprised myself today when I set out to play a few challenges. I started with the colors from the current CAS Colours & Sketches challenge:


Then I thought of the current Simon Wednesday Challenge to add a little texture and The Male Room challenge to make your own background.

So, I broke out three colors of Distress ink and some embossing paste, and opened and used my new-to-me Simon Says Stamp Zig Zag Dots Stencil to make the background for this card:


That did the trick! I had the colors, texture and background. Check, check, and check. But then I needed a sketch ... you know, something to do with that background. So I tried the current Retro Sketches sketch:


I actually tried several different pieces of washi tape for that vertical element, but none of them were quite right. When I finally put the white panel on the blue layer, I realized my best option was to stick with the blue, so I added a strip over the piece of orange washi tape that's hiding there.

When I was making the background, I wasn't too careful when I applied the different rows of colored paste over the stencil, and I was left with hunky piles of the stuff all over. I got a hair-brained idea to scrape off the excess, but instead of scraping across (with the row of color), I scraped down, which blended some of the colors.  At first I was miffed, then I decided I liked it, so I meant to do this:

Yeah, it's blurry, sorry.

And yes, the colors here are a bit muted compared to the challenge colors, but they started out bright and bold, and were muted by the white paste. I even added color twice. Hey, I tried.

That's it, there ain't no more. Except for the mess in the craft room that needs my attention. *ahem*

Thanks for stopping by!




13 comments:

  1. I love happy accidents that end up adding to a project. This card is fantastc!

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  2. That looks like a fun stencil! Love the colors and the card too. Fabulous!
    Lynn

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  3. I like the way it turned out, its very pretty.

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  4. Super background and I like how the colours got a bit blended by your happy accident. Thanks for playing at CC&S.

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  5. Great Idea to work with paste and Color...
    love the outcoming

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  6. Great background - I love that stencil.

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  7. You've done a great job combining all the different challenges together. I love getting messy with stencils and paste! Thanks for joining us at CC&S this week Leslie. Stef x

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  8. Fabulous combination of challenges! I really like the way you've used the stencil to create the chevron background. Thanks so much for playing along with The Male Room this week!

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  9. A fabulous card Leslie, I love the colours you've used to create the background and lovely sentiment panels!!

    Thanks so much for joining along with Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
    hugs
    Heather xx

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  10. Morning sweetie, this is simply stunning, :0)) Thank you for joining us at Simon Says Challenge this time hugs Pops x

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  11. All those textured dots make me think of that dots candy. Love the banners over the circles and... well, pretty much everything about this card.

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  12. Your scraping "oops" sounds like something I would have done! LOL! I like how the effect softens the bright colors. Thanks for joining us this week at CC&S! :)

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  13. Love the dotted bg! Thanks for joining in at TMR!

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