Wednesday, 11 January 2012

The Colour Purple..

..for this week's Less is More Challenge. I love using the colour purple on cards, although it's not a colour I wear or have in my house, but to create with, I love it!


I have used a petal point card by Craftwork Cards, and layered two shades of purple polka dot paper from a new Wild Rose Studios paper stack I got for Christmas. Then using a Hero Arts Blossom stamp, coloured with Promarkers and added a sentiment from Waltzingmouse Stamps in Dusty Concorde distress ink. Finally added some pleated silk ribbon from The Ribbon Reel.

The petal point edge always says to me ' add pearls/gems/brads!' but as this is a CAS design, I stepped away from my gem box...however, I may add some at a later date!

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Less is More - Purple

Cupcake Crafts - Something New - I've used New Papers

CES Challenge - New - New Papers

Paperplay Challenge - New - New Papers


Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline

18 comments:

Sasha said...

Gorgeous! I love your big bold flower, so beautifully coloured. Also, the different shades of purple. Love your pleated ribbon, too:)

Chrissie said...

Gems are fine on CAS cards, it's the heaps of layers and papers and masses of embellishments which are a no no!
This is lovely and would probably be even lovelier with a few pearls along the edge.
Super card.
Thanks so much
Chrissie
"Less is More"

Wishcraft said...

Such a pretty card :o) Love the flower and fab spotty papers. Lisa x

G Peplow said...

Hi Pauline, Happy New Year to you , sorry I'm a little late:0) Fabulous card for LIM beautiful flower and colouring, I love polka dots too. Gay xxx

cheryl said...

oh Pauline this is one really beautiful card just love this hugs cherylxx

Charmaine Stack said...

This is great. The pairing of the sentiment and the flower works really well, a nice compatible scale. And I know what you mean regarding the bling. :-)

Mona Pendleton said...

So pretty Pauline! That blossom is gorgeous!

Anonymous said...

What a pretty card, Pauline, I love purples but hardly have any in my stash which is weird. Anyway, that blossom is wonderful, you did a great job :)

Joyce said...

Wow--you can do CAS! I love this card. All the pretty shades of purple make it just lovely.

Julie said...

Love the papers and ribbon and flower and sentiment! Great card.

A Consuming Passion said...

Well Miss P how good is this card!!!!! Love your fancy shaped card and your stamp combining to make such a pretty CAS card.

Helen Berry said...

Another fabulous card - such a stunning flower stamp and perfectly coloured!! Lovely Waltzingmouse sentiment too - love that font :)

Jenny said...

Your shading has really bought the flower to life...I feel I could touch it! Love your mix of purples too :)
Jenny x

Mandi said...

Pretty card, love the mix of purples.
As Chrissie says we allow sparkly things..me specially lol

Thank you very much
mandi
"Less is More!

Vicky Hayes said...

Lovely Pauline! I like the two shades of the same design DP and the pleated ribbon looks gorgeous! Vicky x

Maarit at Violets Corner said...

This is beautiful!

Many thanks for sharing with us at Cupcake Craft Challenges.

Warm hugs
Maarit

Stamps and Paper said...

Very pretty card Pauline...love the rouched ribbon across the top

Anne

Marie said...

One fantastic card after another. Superb coloring as usual.