Getting Shirty With Terracotta

Hi!

Hello and welcome back for the new Colour Creations Blog Share. It's time for Terracotta Tile this week, which as the name suggests, is a lovely reddish brown. As much as I like it, I struggled for inspiration this week, until I was folding the washing. While we were in New Zealand, Rob purchased a t-shirt for himself, and as I was folding it I realised it was pretty close to Terracotta Tile in colour.

I loved how the Maori design at the bottom looks hand drawn, and fades out as it gets higher up the t-shirt. I ran out of time to attempt to recreate the look using stamps, so in the end I went with dies.

I die cut the Stained Glass dies out of Black Foil, and then a couple of more times out of Terracotta Tile. Layered together they give the window some extra dimension, without the need for cutting Dimensionals into teeny tiny pieces!

I'm not completely thrilled with how I translated the t-shirt to a card, so I will probably revisit sometime in the two years that Terracotta Tile will be in our range. I love the look of the thin black lines on the earthy colour, so I think it will look great, I just have to think bit harder!

Thanks for looking at my Terracotta Tile card. Don't forget to pop on over to Catherine's blog, where you can find the links for the rest of this week's cards.

Bye for now,

Tina