Today it's Sunday and time for this week's new challenge over at The Paper Players! It's the turn of the fabulous Stef to host this week and she has a fresh colour challenge for us to work with:

I have made some time-consuming cards this week (check out my earlier posts in case you missed them) - but today's card definitely wasn't one of them! I saw Stef's colours and knew I had some retired paper in my stash featuring all three colours that would be perfect. So I grabbed some dies and the great layout over at Sketch Saturday and set to work. Take a look at what I came up with:

Here's the low-down on today's card:

The retired You're A Peach designer series papers feature all three of Stef's chosen colours, so I chose a couple of my favourites and cut a couple of rectangular panels, one with a (retired) Everyday Details die, and layered them up as per the sketch. I went with a sentiment from the Grateful Blessing stamp set, embossed on a blue circle cut with one of the Spotlight on Nature Dies for an additional pop of colour:

Three simple layers, a couple of diecuts, a heat-embossed sentiment, some enamel dots and a twine bow - done! A great standby card for my stash and I managed to use up some of my retired papers too - bonus.

Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:

You can see all of my Product and 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any. 

Before you reach for your ink and papers, check out what our amazing team has created to inspire you this week:

Enjoy your day; I'll be back tomorrow with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used: 

GRATEFUL BLESSING PHOTOPOLYMER STAMP SET (ENGLISH) (£19.00)	SPOTLIGHT ON NATURE DIES (£33.00)	BASIC WHITE A4 THICK CARDSTOCK (£16.00)	VERSAMARK PAD (£9.00)	BASICS WOW! EMBOSSING POWDER (£20.00)	BAKER'S TWINE ESSENTIALS PACK (£10.25)
BALMY BLUE A4 CARDSTOCK (£14.00)

I was having a play with the 'Grateful Blessing' stamp set, an annual catalogue stamp set that's been sat on my shelf uninked for some time, trying different things with it and ended up making a clean and simple card using the muted colour palette over at AAA Cards: 

Here's the card I came up with:

Here's the low-down on today's card:

I heat embossed my sentiment and image in white, then added white and mossy green detail to my flower using a combination of white craft ink and my watercolour pencils:

A simple scored border completes my card. I think it looks a little like a lily of the blossom flower in this colourway, don't you? This is quite a different set for me, but I love the outline flower image and the sentiments in this set too. I'll share some of the other cards I made using it another time - watch this space. 

Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:

You can see all of my 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any. 

Short and sweet from me today; enjoy your day and I'll be back soon with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:

GRATEFUL BLESSING PHOTOPOLYMER STAMP SET (ENGLISH) (19.00)	SMOKY SLATE A4 CARDSTOCK (10.75)	VERSAMARK PAD (9.00)	BASICS WOW! EMBOSSING POWDER (20.00)	WATERCOLOR PENCILS ASSORTMENT 1 (17.00)	BLENDER PENS (14.00)
UNINKED STAMPIN’ PAD & WHITE CRAFT REFILL (10.00)