Hello friends. Playing along with the
Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge where they have the loveliest mood board featuring
PEACH hues, so I just had to give it a go since I love working with non-traditional colors at Christmas!
Isn't that such a pretty mood board?! I had just received the
Regal Wreath Registration Press Plates from Altenew, and figured it would look great with
PEACH for the flowers in the wreath. Here's what I came up with...
This was one of those cards I thought I would have done in 10 minutes or less...nope!! You press the wreath outline first and that went very smoothly. They give you a piece of acetate with the wreath outline in black that you lay the actual press plate on top of for correct placement to line everything up...easy. Next you add the press plate to fill in the holly leaves with a lighter green ink and the piece of acetate has the outline of the holly leaves in blue for you to place the press plate in the exact space needed. Thought I had it lined up perfectly...nope. Back to step one...2 more times. Also, you have to be very careful with this plate that you don't get ink anywhere you're not supposed to...easier said than done! The flowers were not a problem to line up.
The sentiment was easy to line up, but like the leaves, you had to be very light handed when adding the ink or it didn't ink up clean and crisp...grrrrrrrrr! Back to the beginning...it's been well over an hour now! Anyway, the last time was the charm. Not perfect by any means, but I was happy with it! And I love that you can actually see the impression of the flowers in the above photo...most better press impressions don't show up that well in photographs! I finished the card simply with some matting and a few PFS gems so that the wreath would be the star of the show.
The DT has some beautiful cards to inspire you with this beautiful color, although it's an anything goes as long as it's Christmas challenge, so check it all out right
HERE and then play along. This challenge is open till
Thursday, Oct. 17th @ 8:00PM.
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