The Card Concept Challenge #196

Welcome to another challenge with The Card Concept where we give you an inspiration picture and colour palette to kickstart your creativity. Here's this week's pic called Patriotic Picnic.

I was inspired by the flowers in the basket and as a nod to the patriotic theme, have used Australian natives for my clean and layered watercolour card.

We had a waratah (the pink flower) in our front yard at my previous house and it was always lovely to see it in bloom. Gumnuts, too, we had plenty of, but I don't miss hurting my feet stepping on them, lol. 

I embossed my image in gold on watercolour paper and coloured with Zig real brush markers and a waterbrush. Black card was chosen for the base as it really makes the image pop. Any areas that couldn't be easily fussy-cut, I coloured with a black marker to blend in. 

The theme this week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is watercolouring, so I'm entering this card. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Australian Natives (Uniquely Creative)
• card - watercolour, basic black
• other - water brush, craft foam, MISTI, Zig Real Color Brush Markers, Dimensionals, gold embossing powder, heat tool, stitched rectangle die, Big Shot, basic black marker

My team mates have plenty more to inspire you so do pop over to The Card Concept blog, and thanks for dropping by.

Cheers

Kerry

The Card Concept - Red, White and Blue

It's a red, white and blue challenge at The Card Concept this time around. Here's our inspiration pic:

In the US my fellow team mates will shortly be observing Memorial Day, whereas here in Australia we had ANZAC Day last month,  so I used this and the swatch colours as inspiration for my clean and layered card.

Red poppies are a symbol of remembrance for the fallen in many countries around the world and most often worn on Remembrance Day in November, but in New Zealand where I grew up we always wore poppies on ANZAC Day. Here in Australia we usually wear rosemary as it grew wild on the Gallipoli Peninsula where the ANZAC troops landed.

On my background I printed an excerpt from 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon, which is read at ANZAC Day services. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Wild Poppies (MFT)
• card - night of navy, basic white, orchid oasis
• Copic markers - R35,46,59; Y15,17; G43,24; YG21,25,93
• other - Lest We Forget die (Couture Creations), Big Shot, stitched rectangle die, Dimensionals, orchid oasis marker, computer and printer

Do follow the link to The Card Concept blog to view the beautiful samples my team mates have created to inspire you.

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry