The Best Things in Life --- Two challenges

*Thrilled to have my card pick as a Colour Connoisseur at the Colour Me...! challenge!*

I love it when a sketch is for a card that is unusual.  That describes the sketch at Hand Stamped Sentiments perfectly:  unusual.  Of course I had to try it.

It's fun when I can find a colour challenge that appears just perfect for a sketch challenge and, with the dual challenge opportunity at Colour Me...!, I found just that.

Since there was a choice as to which of the colour combinations could be used, I chose number two, chocolate chip, blushing bride, and lost lagoon.  Of course it's always all right to use a neutral with the colours and I chose white.

I had just received the Lovely Lace embossing folder in my last order and this seemed to be the perfect opportunity to use it.  So I cut five narrow strips of Whisper White, arranged them in the embossing folder with a small gap between each one and ran them through the Big Shot.  I sponged Blushing Bride into each of the lacy flowers and then used a sponge dauber to add some Chocolate Chip into the centres.  Then I used my Aqua Painter and Lost Lagoon ink to colour the leaves.

For my base I used Naturals White and then added a layer of Blushing Bride which I had first scored so that there would be a scoring line between each strip of embossed Whisper White and many scored lines below the strips.  Then I glued down the strips of embossed Whisper White.

For the off-set piece, I cut a piece of Whisper White which I glued to a matte of Blushing Bride.  I stamped my sentiment using Lost Lagoon and the Feel Goods stamp set.  Finally I added a tiny bow of White Baker's Twine and a heart that I cut from Silver Glimmer paper spritzed with Blushing Bride ink.

For more cards using this sketch, check out Hand Stamped Sentiments.

For more cards using these colours (Team Tara), check out Colour Me...!