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I remember my favorite children's book author's choice of colors very, very well. I have both old and new editions of my favorite books of his - Swimmy and Little Blue and Little Yellow. As a child who hadn't painted for a few years, I didn't know why I loved his paintings - I just knew I loved them.
As an adult who has painted for a few years, I can put it into words my art brain understands. He used a limited palette.
So when I got the beautiful, right up my alley new botanical turnabout, I challenged myself to use a derivative, limited palette instead of the four color combos I always use with these stamps. I mapped it out a few times with markers first, and finally settled on green and grey - two different shades of each. I freaking love the way it turned out! What a gorgeous stamp set! The sentiments and dies are from the bundle too. I used the neutrals glitter paper for the die cut.
What are you up to this week? I made BBQ sauce this week and then did my foolproof chuck roast recipe and we had like faux chopped beef sandwiches which were excellent. The BBQ sauce is one I reverse engineered after buying a quart of the sauce from my fave BBQ joint ever in my hometown while they were going out of business. The owner wanted to retire but wouldn't sell and give up his secrets. That's how we are about our BBQ around these parts - zealots.
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Speaking of dies, they have these amazing, interactive glasses dies I'm going to be using on everything. The dies have the earpieces for the sunglasses that fold over each other like real glasses!! I left them off for this card, but I have a super fun idea for a project using them that I'll share soon.
I made three pairs of glasses - as someone who has worn glasses since middle school - these make me happy! The first pair is this holograph paper + this rainbow paper. For the second one, I put a piece of packing tape onto Poppy cardstock and then die cut it for shiny, Sally Jesse Rafael style sunglasses. I used packing tape + black cardstock for the last pair and made the lenses out of holograph paper. The sentiment is from the bundle.
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Beautiful! I haven't purchase a new turnabout in while - this may be the time!
ReplyDeleteLove the glasses! I love the turnabout card and your colors. I got my order placed 😄
ReplyDeleteLove the botanical card - the colors are perfect. The sunglasses are so fun!
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