Beautiful Day For Curry

Hi!

Here we are again with the new Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Share.

This week we are using Crushed Curry. I must admit that Crushed Curry is a colour I really struggle with. More often than not if I need a yellow I'll reach for Daffodil Delight or So Saffron. It took me weeks to think of something I could make using Crushed Curry. Then I saw this card and the lightbulb clicked on!

I started by heat embossing the butterfly from Beautiful Day with White embossing powder on Shimmery White cardstock.  I then used my Aquapainter and Crushed Curry inkpad to colour the area around the butterflies. I went a bit heavier on the colour closest to the butterflies and tried to soften it further out. I didn't paint right to the edge of the cardstock, and was in fact very rough about the edges.

I had intended to just used the Crushed Curry ink, but the butterflies looked a little too stark and the embossing got lost in all of the white. To fix this I used my Pool Party ink with the Aquapainter to add the tiniest bit of colour to the butterflies. I love how they turned out!

Over all, I'm so pleased with how this card turned out. I'm still on the fence about Crushed Curry, but now I'm sitting a little closer to the 'like it' side!

Why not pop on over to Catherine's blog, where you can see the rest of this week's Crushed Curry cards? You're bound to be inspired!

Bye for now,

Tina