
Happy Thursday, everyone! Well, what's left of it, that is. My day didn't go as planned (do they ever?
LOL), and so even though I made this card first thing this morning with every intention of immediately blogging it, life got in the way. I had a dentist appointment, then when I got home, my
internet connection was dead. By the time I got it working again, the obligatory migraine I get every time I get my teeth cleaned set in. So now, after downing some medicine and hiding under a pillow for a few hours I'm attempting to upload the card. This one is for the new
Meet The Verve Divas challenge that started today. This week's hostess is the
uber talented Jen
del Muro, so be sure to stop by
the forum and get to know her.
Her challenge is to use purple on your project. I really like purple in real life, but haven't found a paper crafting purple I can embrace. It seems that the real-life purple I know and love just doesn't translate to paper and ink. And it definitely doesn't photograph well. I had a
doozy of a time with the photo. The colors in the photo are all wrong. *sigh* The
different shades of purple really do all play very nicely together in real life.
I started with this week's
SCS sketch and some papers from the Katlin Crate Paper Collection, but I strayed a tad from the sketch. These are matted with Eggplant Elegance. Next I stamped the flower from
Beautiful You in
Versafine Imperial Purple ink and colored with
Copics. For some reason I felt like doing an out of the box treatment with the flower, so I only trimmed out half the flower and then added some Purple Spica Glitter pen dots for interest. The sentiment is from
Anniversary Birds and is stamped directly on the DP. The back layer is Always Amethyst, which was stamped repeatedly with the Beautiful You flower and then colored with
Copics. I finished off with some purple
bling in each of the corners of the panels, as well as some Stardust
Stickles on the flower center.
Okay, back to hiding under a pillow! Catch y'all tomorrow! :)