Always on the look out for a new and different, at least to me, card challenge I came across Rainbow Card Challenge. This months concept is to use monochromatic in Sparkling Sapphire. My water colors have a blue that I think of as sapphire so the focal flakes are colored with that allowed to dry before they were attached to the bg. The bg had been smooched with shimmer powder in a blue activated with water. Once dry I dry brushed with the sapphire water color. Added Silhouette cut snowflakes and sentiment. Splattered with white and the sapphire. Trimmed the layering weight focal image to fit just inside the white cs base.
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Beautiful – love the background!
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Lovely blue! Pretty card.
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My kind of snowflake. Neat background – the swipes look like the blowing snow. Love the color.
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K. Werner made me do it. Watched her video watercolor on day one of Holiday CardSeries and had to have those paints.
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This is a beautiful card! I love your beautiful blues.
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Beautiful!! Perfect winter birthday card. I agree with Gayle, the swipes look like blowing snow. Makes me shiver. lol
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Love this! Awesome background that looks great with the white greeting. So wintery.
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Hey Bonnie, what a lovely take on the sapphire color at The Rainbow Card Challenge. It does indeed look like blowing snow with swirls of large flakes. Great job. Thanks for joining us and hope to see you next month for the December Christmas challenge.
Elena DT
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Gorgeous card ! Love your beautiful smooshed background. Stunning effect with the dark blue and white snowflakes. Thanks so much for sharing and for playing along at the Rainbow Card Challenge.
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Gorgeous card! Thank you for playing along with us at The Rainbow Card Challenge! Hope to see you join us again!
Hugs,
Mary Ellen, TRCC DT
http://www.creativetimewithme.com
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