Sunshine Challenge Card

This weekend I managed to combine two challenges with my card ... something that rarely happens.

The latest sketch is up at the Clean And Simple Stamping Blog (FTL #191), and the colour challenge at Dynamic Duo's is as well.

Yellow? You know I don't work easily with yellow. But paired with black? AACK ...  If it weren't for the talented design team at the Dynamic Duo's blog to inspire me, I doubt I would have been able to manage this one.

I did trim off the center panel below the banner though, as it seemed to detract from the banner itself. Other than that, I stayed pretty close to the sketch. Thankfully we are able to use a neutral (I chose white) with our DD colour challenge and I CAN work with touches of yellow.  :-)

The sun is a cut I had in my 'Odds & Sods' pile, an extra also used on the THIS card.  Often I will cut extra's of something in case I mess up or really like the finished product and want more.  It worked perfectly!  The yellow is SU's So Safron and ALMOST makes up for them discontinuing the lovely soft yellow they used to carry.  I used chalks to lightly add colour to the one end of the banner, and the words are also by SU.

I did choose the 'dessert option' at the DD challenge, which was to use dry embossing. The center panel was embossed with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder, and the clouds were cut with a Memory Box die from Impress.

I popped the clouds up with foam tape for some dimension - I like the shadows they throw.  The yellow scalloped borders were cut with a MFT die.

All in all, an A2 card with both yellow AND black that I'm happy with.  Go figure!

Have a wonderful day - thanks for stopping by.