Rosy Friend

Hi!  It's a long weekend here in New Zealand and I took the extra day to get in a card for a few current challenges.  I'm playing along with the colours at Color Throwdown, the Friends theme at Just Us Girls, the sketch at Sunday Stamps and the challenge at Tic Tac Toe (flowers, purple or pink, CAS).  I'm not sure if this card qualifies as pink as the colours look really red in the photos and the pink has sort of been a bit lost, so fingers crossed!

 

I saw the recent video by Jennifer McGuire on creating a jig for layered stamps and I wanted to give it a go, so chose a stamp set with reasonably small images.  I stamped the roses in pinks and reds and because I couldn't use greens for my leaves, I went with kraft coloured leaves and I think it adds a nice, neutral addition.  The palest pink didn't show in my roses after stamping the other layers so I brought in some extra pink in one of the layers.  I also backed the "friend" die-cut with pink under the kraft which provides some interest when looking from the side.

The sketch has a horizontal sentiment strip with a layer underneath.  To try and mimic that, I added a black off-set shadow to my word die.

Finally I finished the card with some enamel dots and some clear sparkle pen on the word die-cut.

Thanks so much for visiting.

Products used:

Stamps:  Rose Builder (WPlus9), Happy Day (MFT)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Red Cosmos, Coffee Break (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, Black Licorice, Kraft, Pink Lemonade (MFT)

Dies:  Rose Builder (WPlus9), Friend Duo, Stitched Rectangle Stax (MFT)

Accessories:  Enamel Dots (Altenew), Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Pen

Cheers

Karren

Edited to Add:  This card got a shout out at Tic Tac Toe, Sunday Stamps and Color Throwdown.