Dublin style colours for PDCC#39

 And they're probably not your 'traditional' Irish colours, unless you think of Guinness (which is brewed near Dublin) and Irish coffee :)  Visit the playdate cafe for the story behind Julie's colour choice this week.  They are gorgeous colours to work with.  

I had loads of ideas but was in the mood for making small things, and since I owe loads of ATCs I played around with card measuring 2.5"x3.5" lol.

My inspiration for the flowers came about from this stencilled piece I did a week ago back, and the paper I had near my journal yesterday.  When I use a stamp, I never clean it off straight away, but stamp it onto plain white paper until it's pretty clean.  I will often then use this piece - to cut images from, or to cut beautifully layered image sections from.

The flower is stamped onto stencilled paper before being cut out.  The background was created by repeatedly stamping the image.

And by working with the 'reverse' colours I got two designs for the price of one :)

Thanks so much to everyone who joined in at the playdate cafe again this week.  We repeated out 100+ entries which we're very grateful for.  An Artistic Outpost stamp plate of your choice was up for grabs last week, and this week we are honoured to be sponsored by Unity stamps, who make fab, fab stamps too!  I have a set and they are superb quality, and pre-cut unmounted (yay, no sticky scissors!)

There's so much going on at the cafe - celebrity guest, a massive prize this week, and all the other designers great work.  So why not head over there to see what it's all about :)

PDCC#38 - thankyou, thankyou, thankyou

I just want to thank everyone who helped us to exceed 100 players this week - you are absolute stars!  Thank you :)

You've got my choice of colours this week, inspired by strong-coloured summer flowers that really make a statement.

I love lupins, but they just disappear in my garden; I think the slugs come from far and wide to gobble them up!  I wish I could grow them though;  I think it's so fun how raindrops gather in the centre of the leaves, and form mirrors or drinking water for the fairies. 

You've got two cards from me this week.  That's because I needed a card for today, and wanted to keep one, and when you're making spray cards like this you might as well do more than one at once.

Both cards are 5" square, with the front edge torn to reveal a sprayed edge inside the card.  I stamped the image with Versamark fine (black) then sprayed ink over the top once it was dry.  

Artistic Outpost are generously sponsoring our challenge this week and there's loads of inspiration over at the play date cafe.  I used the Serenity set, but I have to say, it was really hard to choose which stamps I wanted.  There are now lots of 'wants' on my list lol.