It will already be July when this post goes live, and I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. We spent a week going to Wisconsin, flying with our 12 year old grandson to Washington, D.C. for a few days, driving home, and then a week of commuting between home and a cottage on Conesus Lake Tracy's family had rented. I was glad to be home for a week before we leave again for Chautuaqua Institute. We've been there before but never just the two of us. It's sure to be relaxing, inspiring, and informative. This week's theme is Artificial Intelligence.
Nancy, our fabulous leader at Color Hues, has chose a wonderful color combination:
I knew almost at once what I wanted to try. Some time ago I purchased Matte White foil from Spellbinders and wanted to try it out on aqua cardstock. Concord & 9th's cardstock foils beautifully, and their Aqua Sky cardstock was the perfect color. It's not often a card ends up looking exactly as I imagined it, but this one did.
I chose an old favorite from Pinkfresh Studio, Quadrant Backdrop and ink blended it with the coordinating stencils with Simon Says Sea Foam ink. I chose Concord & 9th's Oceanside for the cardbase and sentiment. I love Waffle Flower's "Hey There" sentiments, and this one fit perfectly.
I added a piece of dimensional foam behind the main panel, and stacked three of the sentiments together for a bit more dimension. Adding some white enamel dots was the final touch.
Edited to add: In my attempt to work through my NBUS box, I created a second Aqua and White card with a new-to-me stencil, Frosty Lace. By the name, I'm thinking it was meant to be a winter-themed stencil but it looks like it could be a sea foam stencil as well.
Like my first card, I used Concord and 9th cardstocks and Simon Says inks to ink blend, primarily Seafoam again, adding some Surf ink to add some dimension. I decided to cut the piece down to a square card.
This time I used a gold foiled sentiment from Pinkfresh Studio's Favorite Things Betterpress plate, and added some gold pearls to finish it off.
As always, you'll find lots of inspiration from our guest, Nance, and the Design Team on the Color Hues Blog. Please join us in the gallery!
I'm sending the second card off to Just Us Girls: Anything Goes Stencils and to Darnell's new July NBUS gallery.
