Hello crafty friends. I’ve stepped away from black & white today, back to one of my favourite techniques of blending colours. I picked up the palette from CAS Colours & Sketches and paired it with the layout from Freshly Made Sketches
I started with the outer part of a mask that I’d cut using a small square nested die and blended Distress Oxides through it, repeating it twice more to pick up the sketch. I used ‘mermaid lagoon’ & ‘dried marigold’ on the top two squares, then ‘dried marigold’ & ‘pumice stone’ on the bottom one.
I had planned to stamp a large floral image across the squares, but couldn’t find one that looked right. Instead, I went with Julie Hickey’s ‘floral frames’, which happily were the right size for the blended squares – lucky or what?!
I finished by adding one of the sentiments from Julie’s ‘positive wishes’, added a mount of blue card and attached the whole piece to a 5×5 card blank.
Thanks for dropping in. I hope your weekend is going well – I had a great morning catching up with a former colleague over brunch. I’ll be back with another card tomorrow.
Deborah's Crafty Blog 
Wow, I can’t believe you inked these fabulous squares first and then found the perfect images! Love the whimsey of this design. Thanks for playing along with us at FMS this week.
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Thank so much!
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Love this! Awesome and unique sketch!
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Thanks Leslie!
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What a stroke of luck Deborah – those doodled floral squares are the perfect fit and so pretty too. Thanks for playing with us over at CAS Colours & Sketches this week!
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I love it when things just “match”! It always makes me happy 🙂 Those doodled frames are so pretty, and I love your blended background! Thank you for joining us this week at CC&S!
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Had to stop by and tell you what a great card this is! I love CAS designs and you did great with those colors (they are really giving me a challenge!)
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Thanks Melanie!
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WOw this is so pretty and yes you did luck out that the frames stamped perfectly!
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Beautiful card, as always, your color blending is gorgeous. Your right – this was just meant to be Floral Frames stamp set works beautifully with your blended squares. Love it. Thanks for joining us this week at CC&S.
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Thanks so much Shannon x
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What a great take on both challenges, Deborah! I love the ink blended squares and the sketchy images. Thanks so much for playing along with us at CC&S and FMS this week.
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Thanks Cecile!
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