Happy Saturday! With nothing on the agenda for the weekend, the hubby and I are taking it easy today. My one goal was to make a card using primary colors for challenges at
SU-Only and
Color Throwdown. Last night I searched through the current
Stampin' Up! catalog to find some inspiration and decided I would use the
Best Birds for the challenge. The design is from a card I cased on page 52 of the
Stampin' Up! catalog. All images and sentiment came from the
Best Birds stamp set and I used the coordinating Birds & Blooms Thinlit Dies. Watercolor paper was used for the images and background. After heat embossing the background with clear embossing powder I used Aqua Painters and the Dapper Denim ink pad for color. The bird was watercolored with three shades of yellow: Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry and Delightful Dijon. Real Red was used for the flowers, Wild Wasabi for the leaves and Crumb Cake for the branch. To anchor the focal area a 1.25" of Dapper Denim cardstock was embossed with the Petal Burst embossing folder and Craft ink applied for highlights. That's pretty much it!
Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day!
This Best Birds Birthday Card is entered into the following challenges:
Beautiful work, you make sticking to the primary colours look easy love the finished result
ReplyDeleteGreat technique. I love the linen look of the background. This card is just gorgeous. The bird looks so realistic!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking to Cut it Up for our Watercolor challenge!
Evelyn
http://mylittlecraftblog.wordpress.com
Very pretty, Andrea! Sounds like you and hubby had a wonderful relaxing day yesterday!
ReplyDeletecongrats Andrea W as top 3 at Color Throwdown
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cute Birdi card
me again great used the color red blue yellow and green dear Andrea
ReplyDeletehow are you sweety
see you around
hugs
Monika
Pretty! Love the yellow finch...great idea! Thanks for playing along with the SUO challenge this week!
ReplyDeleteYour colouring of your bird is so beautiful! What a lovely card. So glad you joined in the fun at SUO!
ReplyDeleteWow, this is gorgeous!! The use of the primary colors really sets off this beautiful bird- thanks for playing along with us at SUO Challenges!!
ReplyDeleteLove your card! that splash of red flowers totally makes it. Thanks for playing along with the SUO Challenge.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! Love the heat embossing with the sponging and the bird. Beautiful design. Thanks for sharing and participating in the SUO Challenge. Pam
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty card! Love how you interpreted the primary colors. Thanks for joining the SUO challenge.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a lovely card. I love the textured water color background. Thanks for sharing at Cut it Up.
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