I ordered a number of mini distress ink pads and was curious to see what the colors looked like on cream cardstock. I made several sheets applying a random swath of colors like Peacock Feathers, Mustard Seed, Pickled Raspberry, Tumbled Glass, Crushed Olive and Spiced Marmalade. You can see how the cream colored cardstock mutes the colors.
I was also playing with three different sets of Wild Flower Thinlit Dies. I cut out as many as I could from the colored cardstock and then reassembled them into 6 different bunches to use for my January Artfirmations cards.
My backgrounds were created on watercolor paper cut down to 4 x 6. I used a credit card to apply a neutral palette of acrylic paint in shades of Cream, Fleshtone and Titanium White.
I needed something to anchor the wildflowers but struggled to find a color to complement them. In the end, instead of throwing out my scraps, I re-purposed them to create a more interesting "landscape" for my wildflowers and then added a banner that expresses my hope for the New Year.
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