Quilts and Cards: Terrific Tuesday Colour Challenge

Today's challenge over at PCW is a colour challenge, using all the colours shown in the swatch here as well as string, twine, hemp etc.

Putting these colours all together proved to be a bit of a challenge but I managed with the help of a lovely digi image from Melin at PCW.

I used pale blue for the base card and made a gatefold card. That ScorPal is such a great tool!

I added a layer of cream that I embossed with my favourite swiss dots folder.

I cut the image and the backing card, the sentiment and its backing card with Spellbinders dies and edged the image and sentiment with antique linen distress ink.

I finished it all off with a bow made from natural coloured raffia.

I think I managed to cover all the colours in the swatch reasonably well!

Pop on over to join the rest of the team at the PCW Terrific Tuesdays Challenge and leave some lovely comments for the girls! Thanks for looking here as well.

Favourite Tips

If you need a brad of a particular colour and don't have one, check to see if you have some embossing powder of the colour you want . Rub embossing ink on the top of the brad, then dip it into the embossing powder then heat set it. Use tweezers or a clip peg to hold the brad while you heat it.
When you are stitching on cards, make sure you are not sewing over the top of DS tape! The needle gets gummed up and won't lock the threads underneath.
Use zip lock plastic envelopes for smaller pieces of card offcuts that accumulate when making cards. Have one envelope per colour and periodically go through and trim up so they are ready for use on another card.

Quilts and Cards

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Terrific Tuesday Colour Challenge

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