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May 23, 2025

Floral Challenge with TK

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It's time for a new challenge between myself and TK (Time for Kards).

This time we are using another image from Penny Black called, 
Garden Trio which also features a matching die set, Garden Trio Cut-Out.  Plus circle dies from PB (Stitched Square and Circles).

Here is my card that I created with the images and dies that she stamped and cut out for me to use.





The flowers in this card reminded me of, (poppies) so I wanted to go with poppy like colors for my card.  I had a very old piece of designer paper from (My Minds Eye) in my stash that has never been used and decided to base my color scheme off of it.

Card Base: Tangerine Tango (retired SU - this was one of my favorite SU colors and I was sad when they retired it). Next layer is Costal Cabana - SU.  Then the designer paper.  Also used were Unity Stamps Rectangle and Scallop dies.

The sentiment is from PB - Blooms stamp set.

I colored the image with Colored Pencils and blended with a blending stump and Gamsol).  For a little touch of sparkle I used some Black Diamond stickles (Ranger). 

You can see some of the sparkle on this close-up section of the card.


To achieve the darker shading behind the flower I cut out another circle on masking paper and used it as a mask and ink blended some Pecan Pie ink over the patterned paper.  The flower, circle and sentiment are raised up using foam tape.  To complete the card I added some small white pearls.

Don't forget to stop by TK's blog (Time for Kards) and check out what she created.

Thanks for stopping by.

5 comments:

  1. Wow! I LOVE your colors! Your water coloring looks great to me, and those colors are fantastic. While yours looks like a poppy, mine is stuck in yellow again - oh well, next time. Thanks for playing with me, Ida!

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  2. True Words and its beautiful, love that cut out

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  3. Another great card. I like how you have part of that flower under the circle and part above it. Brilliant idea on inking inside the circle under the flower.

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  4. Oooh, pretty! You know how I love both Penny Black and designer paper so this card is a win win. Beautifully colored with your pencils, and it's clever how you shaded the inner circle. Very effective!

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  5. This is beautiful, Ida. Your pencil coloring is wonderful and I love that you put the flower on patterned paper. It adds to the card without distracting from your lovely flower. I'll have to try that.

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