Peach and Green are the new colors for the April 1st Challenge at Color Hues. Cindy has chosen the duo, and I had a lot of fun with it.
Rather impulsively I ordered the February Clear Stamp and Die of the Month from Spellbinders. I have no regrets. It was just perfect for this challenge, and I'm a big fan of lilies!
The feature that sold me on the set was the die cut which cuts the arched frame and all the inside areas at once. After coloring the image with Copic markers, I backed the arch with black cardstock, and the lilies just popped! Concord and 9th recently introduced a new set of colors. I usually invest in a sampler pack, and it arrived just as I was trying to find a piece of peach cardstock. Their Creamsicle paper was just what I needed.
The stamp set included several lovely sentiments as well as the dies to cut them out. I added some dimensional foam behind the arched lilies, and then stacked several sentiments to provide more dimension.
April usually hold some promise of consistent Spring weather in western New York, so hopefully we'll soon see lilies beginning to peek through in the garden. In the meantime, hop over to the Color Hues blog to see the what the Design Team and our Guest Designer have created. We hope you'll join us!
Thanks to this new stamp and die set, I'm likely to be one of the first in the gallery at Darnell's April NBUS post. I'm also posting this in the Seize the Birthday Challenge: Spring Florals, and The Four Seasons Challenge: Anything Goes.
