Karen has chosen some lovely, but apparently challenging, colors this week. See all of those extra pieces behind my card. Let's just say there were a few attempts that never seemed to go in the direction I intended.
Finally I had enough rejected pieces that I started trying them out together and Voila! I got this. The border piece started out as a blended background piece that I had tried to add various texture and rose image stamp. I had thoughts of adding that tag in the background but apparently that's just NOT the way I work. "Just because you can doesn't mean you should."
(I actually know stampers who quote me saying this - back to me!)
Anyway, I'm pretty sure you can have some great fun playing around with these colors. I can't wait to see what you come up with!
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Tue, Sep 01, 2020 @ 3:26 PM
Such great texture and delicious elements. Lovely card!
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Wed, Sep 02, 2020 @ 5:23 PM
Chris, this is just absolutely gorgeous!! The rich colors of the flowers, the fabulous embossed pattern as a bg, and beautiful diecut edge, and that pretty designed edge you made with these colors. Into my favorites.
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This is the prettiest card I have seen anyone do with this stamp set...it is beautiful. I was hoping someone would use colors other than fall colors and you knocked it out of the park. Great job!