Monday 20 January 2014

Pick Your Favourite Color with Through The Purple Haze

This week the challenge from Through The Purple Haze Challenge Blog is #25 Pick Your Favourite Color. 

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I used the Leather and Lace digi from Delicious Doodle. I liked the look of this image and knew it would be fun to colour with one of my favourite colours, purple. I also took the name of the digi literally and knew I had some lace and leather embellishments.




I coloured the digi with my trusty Spectrum Noir pens trying to get a leather like look on the gloves and jacket. As the colours were quite dark I added glossy accents to the bow in her hair so it has a bit of dimension and shine to it.

I wrapped some black lace around a large piece of purple co-ordinations cardstock. I cut the lace with a rotary fabric cutter so got it perfectly straight and didn't stretch it. I then matted the image onto co-ordinations card stock in a purply/pink colour to lighten the card and make the picture stand out. 
 I made a bow from some of the lace and added this to the corner with a tag I had from Kanban, and then added a purple gem to give a bit of shine.


Now these are leather flowers I die cut with a sizzix flower die. I had some leather off cuts and these cut so cleanly with a Sizzix Bigz die and add a lovely texture (and smell) to the card. I added liquid pearls to the center of the flowers and then stuck them on with Collall all-purple glue.


This isn't the type of card I would usually make as it's quite dark but I think it looks really good and am really pleased with how it's come out.


Go to Through The Purple Haze Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team have made and take part yourself.

23 comments:

  1. Love the vibrant colors here! Great job on the coloring as well! Thanks for sharing it with us at My Sheri Crafts! :)

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  2. Sara, I love the rich deep purples in your card. Great choices in your embellishments. Very outstanding card. We are so pleased you chose to share it with us at 613 Avenue Create.

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  3. What a super card, and i love the purple my fav colour....well done
    fiona DT

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  4. Beautiful card Sara, love the lace! :)
    Eithne DT

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  5. What a super cute and lovely card! Thank you for joining us at Fairy Tale Challenge! xx Bianca

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  6. So pretty and really eye catching image and colours Sara.

    Thank you so much for joining in our Buttons and Bows theme at Allsorts challenge this week.

    B x

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  7. Cool creation, thanks for joining us at Allsorts this week, xxxx

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  8. Great card, wonderful colours, thanks for joining us at Brown Sugar this week

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  9. This is just beautiful! Absolutely love it!
    Hugs
    Darcy

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  10. wow stunning, thanks for joining us at craftitude, good luck
    caroline dt

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  11. This is just too cool. I love that you took the name literally and added the leather and lace. What a clever idea!

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  12. This is stunning. I love all your colouring and the details.

    DT Pam

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  13. Fab creation, thanks for joining Allsorts challenge, good luck.
    Happy crafting
    Tracy x

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  14. What a super sweet card..love the leather and lace and purple is one of my favourite colours. Very nice indeed.

    Thanks for joining us this week at Brown Sugar. Good luck.

    Lynn, BSCB DT

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  15. Fabulous Card! thanks for joining in at PunkyouGirl this month! mo dt x

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  16. Gorgeous Sara the lace sets it off beautifully
    Nicola DT

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  17. I absolutely love it!! I hope you win some challenges with this one! It is spectacular!
    Hugs
    Darcy

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  18. I really really love this, the embellishments work so perfectly & love your colouring too.
    hugs
    Teresa

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  19. I really really love this, the embellishments work so perfectly & love your colouring too.
    hugs
    Teresa

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  20. Great card! Thank you for sharing with us at Fairy Tale Challenge and good luck!

    Hugs

    Claudia

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  21. Perfect Card looks great.
    Thank you for joining us at Fairy Tale Challenge
    Hugs Elfie

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