Morning all. A hosepipe ban in place and it's rained all night, lol. Seriously though, we are in one of the areas of the country in drought and we need soooooo much rain to put things even halfway right. Bring on the wet!
Mind you, it is lovely and sunny this morning, so far.
Today at LESS IS MORE the ladies have a Colour Challenge for us and it is Three Shades of Green. I'll be honest - since being forced to wear a bottle green school uniform for five years, I developed an allergy to green, but it is getting better as I'm getting older and I was determined not to let my teenage prejudice get in the way of me having a go at this!
I masked and sponged the background with Distress Inks in Forest Moss and Shabby Shutters, then I inked up some card in Peeled Paint and die cut the Cheery Lynn butterflies. Hero Arts sentiment is also stamped in Peeled Paint. Then I added mint green pearls to the bodies of the butterflies to give a bit more dimension and texture. Voila.
Hugs, Sxx
34 comments:
I think SQUINK is a great name Squirrel and your card is fab, those butterflies are superb!
It's a great combo of greens isn't it!
Thank you so much
Chrissie
"Less is More"
Hi squirrel
Love it ......
Hugs Sylvie xxx
Fabulous use of the required greens and such an elegant card
Hugs and Happy Easter
Kate xx
Beautiful card
I was the same with my own school colours (cherry red and grey) too! This card is lovely - glad you overcame your fear of green
Happy Easter
Kathyk
lovely card! I like the butterflies very much.
Lovely card, the BG looks so textured. I say bring on the rain too.
Love your inking and those butterflies are so pretty
Anne
Hi sweetie fabulous inking & I so love the butterflies, I have such a soft spot for butterflies lol.
Poor you for having to wear bottle green its no wonder you are nutty lol..... mmwah
Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx
fabby CAS card,green looks good,my uniform was purple and funny enough i am not keen on that colour! have a good day,x
Great card! :)
*hugs*
Angélique
Green isn't my favourite colour either but this is lovely x
Wow,Squirrel,you've done a brilliant job this week,nothing from me as yet lol,I've a pile of ironing I'm tackling first :(
Have a great weekend,Julie x
Beautiful card Squirrel - love those butterflies!
Helen x
beautiful - really lovely xx
Glad you got over your allergy to greens! Fabulous card :)
It's not easy using green... having to paint things the color of your old uniform... when you think it could be happier being pink or purple or blue or some less disgusting color than green...
Ok, so Kermit the Frog is probably not happy I tweaked his lyrics.
Despite the awful trauma of using a color that turns your stomach, you did a lovely, simple card. So proud of you. Now if you could only overcome your distaste for orange jelly babies --or alternatively, learn to share-- life might be easier for you. But what would be the fun in that? ;)hee
What a fabulous card,love the butterflies.xxx
Fabby card Squirrel. Love those butterflies.
Kat xx
My school cardi was bottle green...I love very other shade!
Thank you very much
mandi
"Less is More"
Fabulous card in spite of the traumatic school uniform memory.
I bet you can`t remember bottle green school knickers though ( with a pocket)
Lynne xxx
Gorgeous card love the texture effect of the background strip XOXO Zoe
stunning card hun.love the green, my fav colours and gorgeous butterflies ;D
xx coops xx
Another bottle green school uniform wearer here. I hated it, although Mum said it suited me much better than the pinks and blues that the other kids were wearing... sigh. But it didn't put me off - I LOVE green and always have. Your card is beautiful!
P.S. have you heard of Squinkies.com? My 8-year-old niece has about a million of them. Not sure you'll want to be associated with those!
West Country Squirrel xxx
Wonderful card Squirrel, and I love green :o)
Jackie xx
Gorgeous elegant card hun and I love green! xxx
Great card, well done :) Viv xx
Oh wow! That is beautiful - so elegant
I love green and I love this card. I really like this way of using distress inks.
Great card i love it :)
Hugzz Val xx
Great card. I love the sponged background. xx
Gorgeous card! Love the butterflies.
I sympathise about the bottle green uniform. Me too! Still (after 40 years!) can't bring myself to wear that colour, but I do like most other shades of green now!
Lynne x
Butterflies in such quantity and of such greens? It can tell you that I see in spring. Gracious card
Beautiful! Love those Butterflies!
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