Colour Creations: Highland Heather

Hi!

Well, aren't we tearing though the colour range? We are already up to Highland Heather, a lovely, soft purple. It's a colour that I really like, but perhaps part of that is because my beautiful mother's name is Heather. I decided to make a whimsical card with the pretty purple.

I started with a cloud template cut from a piece of Window Sheet. I used a long-retired die, but there is a similar cloud die in the Basic Borders Dies. A Blending Brush was used with the template to create the cloudy sky background. I think the whimsy comes from using purple instead of the expected blue.

My Brilliant Wings Dies butterfly is a double layer of Silver Foil and Whisper White card. I only used glue on the body of the butterfly layers, so that the wings could be raised. It adds lovely dimension and movement to the card.

To make the inside complement the front, I added a few more layers of clouds, and a much smaller Silver Foil butterfly. The sentiments are both from Sweet Strawberry, with the one on the front cropped using a Tasteful Labels Die.

Please continue your way around our Blog Hop by jumping on over to Caroline Manwaring's blog. I'm sure she's made a gorgeous card with Highland Heather.

Catherine Proctor is our wonderful host this week, so please go to her blog if you find a missing or broken link.

Bye for now,

Tina