FEBRUARY 2018 INSPIRATION CHALLENGE FROM THE HOUSE THAT STAMPS BUILT

Hello house friends!  

There's a new challenge at The House That Stamps Built and this week it's an inspiration challenge.  

For this card, I used RI Stamp #9205-O "Hydrangea" from the "Beautiful Days" collection.  I stamped the image with Versamark embossing ink on a piece of Ranger watercolor paper and heat embossed it with white embossing powder.  Using Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils I colored layers of color on the petals and leaves.  I fussy cut (with my art knife) the little bee and then used an oval die to cut the image with a technique called "Out of the Box" die cutting.  When the coloring and cutting was done, I layered it against another oval die cut in dark purple.  

I mounted the ovals against an embossed background layer I created using a We R Memory Keepers "next level" basket weave embossing folder.  The sentiment is a portion of the RI Stamp#2501-H "Happy Birthday From..." which I also stamped with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with white ep.  

Here is the inspiration palette and I hope you'll join the challenge this week at The House.  All the details can be found there for entering and what you could win.  

To see more wonderful creations using this palette challenge, visit these blogs of my team mates.

 Donna - Heather - Joy - Laurie - Esther - Shirley

Thanks so much for stopping by.

I'm entering this card in the Wednesday Challenge at Simon Says Stamps Blog "Make Your Own Background".