It's a Beautiful Challenge!

Hello Everyone and welcome to the very first Flourishes Bring Back Beautiful Challenge! This team was started by Flourishes to truly showcase beauty in card making – whether it just be in a beautifully colored image, a fabulous way to incorporate an embellishment or a new twist on a card layout. Today kicks off our first challenge with a look at one of the things that can evoke a lot of beauty in card making – COLOUR! Here’s your challenge: pick your favorite medium – watercolor, colored pencils, markers, alcohol inks… the sky is the limit! Show off your color and join us! Link up your Bring Back Beautiful Challenge creation HERE to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB01. You have until August 31st  to enter! As we unveil our challenge for September, we’ll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog! 

For this month's challenge I decided to focus on the colour YELLOW!  It's such a bright, happy colour and what could be happier than a bunch of beautiful daffodils???  I started with a base of yellow bazzill and layered with white (pierced) and then some Thrift Shop DSP.  The next panel is more white, punched with the MS Iron Gate border punch and topped with yet more Thrift Shop DSP.  I stamped these gorgeous daffodils from Flourishes' A Year in Flowers 1 stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black on X-press It Blending Card and coloured with Copics - Y21, Y35, Y38, YG11, YG13, YG17, B0000.  It was then cut out with Large Circle Nestabilities and matted with the matching Circle Scallop and popped up on foam tape on top of the Label 1 Nestabilitities layer.  The sentiment is from Flourishes' Tag Lines set and has also been stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and cut out with Ribbon Tag Trio Spellbinders and attached to the card with some 1/2" white satin ribbon.

Stamps - A Year in Flowers 1, Tag Lines (Flourishes)
Paper - X-press It Blending Card, White, October Afternoon Thrift Shop DSP
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories - Copics, Label 1, Large Circle and Scallop Circle Nestabilities, Ribbon Tag Trio Shapeabilities, MS Iron Gate Border Punch, Paper Piercer, Mat Pack, Foam Tape.

I am just thrilled to be a part of this new team - I mean seriously, have you seen the talent on this team!!!!  Just wait until you see what BEAUTIFUL creations the other Beauty Girls have made....

Beate

Becca

Cindy

Julie

Michelle

Yvonne

Thank you for stopping by and I can't wait to see your Beautiful projects!!  :)