Eggplant, Artichoke and Suede

Those are the beautiful colors in the Color Throwdown Challenge this week and I love those colors.

Those are also the color of Stampin’ Up! papers of which I don’t have but I do have something (as close as i can get it) in dusty purple and a brown inked (it looks almost like suede, just a little darker) paper background and a green that comes near the artichoke green on the leaves of the stamped design. So I thought I could enter this in the challenge.

This has been sitting around for a couple of months waiting for something to pull it together and i love it with the purple.

The design was stamped on paper from the Paper Temptress (Cryogen White – Text weight) then painted with Yasutomo’s Pearlescent paints which took to the paper really well. The stamp from Impression Obsession (Victorian Rose by Leigh Hannon)is one of my favorites. 

                              

New Header for Blog

Hellloooo! I decided to make a header for my blog. I keep looking around at all that is available and did not find anything i liked. They are all beautiful; it just doesn't seem to find that spot in me that says "This is it! This is the one to use."And as I was playing around this morning this is what I did (referring to the header image). And I loved the colors, the way the blended, so decided to scan it.

I know it doesn't fit with the newly added background, which i really like but now does not fit with the header, so this page may look a little mis-matched till i get a background done. Edited to say I have my new background in place but I think it needs a little editing still. The Stamp is from Impression Obssesion and is an absolute favorite of mine. and i used the Yasutomo pearlescent color/paint box with an aqua brush by Niji. One of these days I am going to get a beautiful water brush with real bristle from Blue Heron but can't quite seem to fit it in my immediate list of wants with the amount of money i have to work with. This is a never ending problem it seems. I keep hoping to get caught up! I'm not doing too bad, though.