I'm very happy to have a win so I could be invited back to Color Hues Color Challenge as a guest designer! Oh, and it's a goody - but aren't they all? Hope you can play along!
stamped it with Memento copic-friendly ink and chose three shades of yellow and green from my Copic collection.
Since I stamped the flowers with the leaves I had to
get a little clever when die-cutting. I partially cut
the Iris's heads with the dies, then finished the job with
my scissors...
I couldn't get enough of that sunshine-y yellow, so I chose to cut a postage-edged panel from some pretty yellow plaid then popped
up my Iris and another sentiment
from Pinkfresh Studios' Perfect Sentiments
I have to thank my friend Hilary for inspiring me to revisit this sweet set - she mentioned her Irises in her garden and my
imagination took over from there! OH and then this gorgeousness:
I was so inspired by the lemons and those darling curtains from Double D's Lemon-ade inspired moodboard!
Thank you, Color Hues, for the win, and the invitation to be your guest!
=] Michele
Supplies:
Altenew Enchanted Iris stamps and dies.
Papertrey Ink: Bitty Big patterned paper - Harvest gold
Pinkfresh Studio: Perfect Sentiments
Wplus9: Postage Layers Dies
27 comments:
I do love iris but mine have finished blooming, they were spectacular though, rich, dark velvety purples with a splash of orange at the throat! Your iris remind me of the ones we had growing in our pond and the old house, no pond here other than the ones in the fields. Well done with the die cutting and being a fab GD. :)
I have been enthralled with this beauty before the challenge went live - I"m in love with all that yellow and the beautiful blooms. A breath of summer to me! We love having you as our GD, Michele!
Well that was a surprise. I am quietly reading your post and admiring these amazing irises and see my name mentioned. It is hard for me to believe that I can inspire you, but I thank you for the mention. Irises are one of my favourite flowers and I think the only iris stamp I have is a silhouette - I will have to check. I ought to enter the flower challenge, hope I get some time this weekend. Thanks for your continued inspiration. Sorry I haven't visited every post this week. Various things have kept me busy. One of them being the need to water all my pots every evening. We have had no rain for at least 6 weeks, but probably 8 and it has been very hot recently too xx
Welcome, welcome...it's so good to have you playing along with us Michele, and your bright and sun-shiny Iris's are absolutely BEAUTIFUL in all that wonderful YELLOW and green! My neighbor has yellow Iris's and I'm jealous every year when they bloom...soooo pretty, just like yours!! And that's some awesome die and fussy cutting too my friend!! Thanks so much for inspiring our players Michele...we love having you on board!! Hugs. :0)
And we are so happy to welcome you back as Guest Designer. As always, your card is fabulous! I love irises but we've never had any luck with them. Your yellow ones are beauties; love the way you die cut them!
Delightful card, Michele! Love the coloring and that plaid background. :)
This is so sweet Michele! So glad you linked it up to the Double D Challenge. Best of luck to you!
Gorgeous card, I have bright and bold yellow Iris in my gardens so absolutely love this pretty card!!
Thank you for joining our challenge at Double D!
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So happy and cheerful! Great use of the colors
Oh my goodness, I am loving this sunny, happy and cheerful Iris card Michele! That plaid paper is fabulous! What an amazing job you did of stamping, coloring and then partial die cutting of those Iris. You are a good fussy cutter too! I would have never known that you die cut part of this flower and fussy cut the rest, looks like it all has been die cut! A gorgeous CAS card for sure! Hugs, Brenda
Michele, We love having you back with us as our Guest at Color Hues. I had no doubt that you were going to showcase a beautiful floral using our color pairing. The background is as pretty as the Irises. Have a wonderful weekend.
As you may know, yellow and green are not my favourite colour combo (wink) but you have made it shine here my friend x
Congratulations on your Guest Designer spot, Michele! So well deserved and beautifully done! Love, love, love these yellow irises and your creative cutting!
Congrats on being Guest Designer. I love the soft yellow plaid as a background for your pretty iris. Beautiful card, Michelle.
Beautiful iris indeed, and your yellow plaid makes my heart swoon!
Congrats on being their guest designer, Michele. I haven't used my iris stamp in a coon's age and if I had it with me I'd be inspired to color it. Your coloring is wonderful and so is that fun plaid background.
Congratulations on your win and your guest designer gig and wow what beauties these Iris's are.So perfectly coloured and stamped and the zesty gingham is just perfect as a backdrop.
Marie
I LOVE those lovely, lellow irises and their lovely lellow background. The postage die cut looks fabulous as their stage.
Your irises are gorgeous against that delightful background! Pretty card1
So lovely!!!!! Truly stunning work as always Michele!!!!! I’m so glad your creations pop up on my feed when they do!!!
So nice to have you as GD, Michele, as always you created a gorgeous example with the challenge colors! Love those amazing iris and the plaid background too.
So happy to have you as our guest Michele ! A beautiful card... as always!
It's a goodie for sure and a beautiful card in a favorite color combo. I'm sorry I wasn't here to thank you for joining us at Double D. I dropped out for a bit.
Too gorgeous for words!!
Our neighbors has lovely irises and peonies. They say once they are ready to split she will share with me. That's so great I said, since our new home is just coming into first Spring with us here, and its a little bleak. Several assorted flowers, but once bloomed, underwhelming but I love them anyways!
Thanks for the inspiration, had to play along Michele.
The title of your stamps/dies captures perfectly my response to your card: enchanting! The irises are lovely and oh, that plaid background! Swoon inducing! Thrilled to have you as our inspiring guest designer!
hugs~c
PS. Thank you for the stitching dies suggestions. Now I can quit with the 'select language' that was happening! LOL!
What a gorgeous card! The check background really sets these flowers off to perfection!
My apologies at being late to the party. This is just wonderful Michele. I love the floral against that beautiful plaid. Thank you so much for Guesting with us!
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