Scrapping Outback & The Color Room Palette 50

Firstly Congratulations to THE COLOR ROOM on reaching 50 palettes and what a whole lot of amazing, colourful inspiration there has been over this time.

As a 'former Revolving Door Artist (RDA)' for weeks #11 - #14, I was so very excited and also honoured to receive an invitation to participate with this weeks special Palette.

We are in 'His Room' and it is a 'White Washed' Palette.

This is my take on it

'Believe'

You are beautiful inside and out

Now I have to confess to being a bit intimidated by this palette. These, by no means are colours that I generally work with and I had to do some serious... O.K major, stash digging LOL!

Fortunately for me as it turned out, the gorgeous Rach (Scrapping Outback) was my 'savior' as she had just sent along a couple of the Bo Bunny Midnight Frost patterned papers to work with for a Scrapping Outback product showcase. I combined these with a splash of Kaisercraft Airy Fairy 'Sparkle' and some cardstock.

Blooms are some older Prima Obsession combined with some of the new Prima Roses and Kaisercraft Paper Blooms - I have used coconut white (available Scrapping Outback) and sage. The bling is a Zva Creative Leaf flourish that I have cut up and the large hanging facet jewel is a Teresa Collins Blingage Maddie's Jewels - gosh I had no idea how big this was when I bought the packet LOL. These are also available in the Scrapping Outback store.

No surprises that I have also included some chipboard elements, both available from Scrapping Outback - chippie 'Believe' title and Dusty Attic Ornate Frame #1. I also added some of the new Kaisercraft sentiment rubons to the title.

So if you have made it this far - Thank You and Well Done!.

This week The Color Room are doing things a little differently. The palette has been revealed as usual, but instead of putting up the Design Team layouts on the main page, you will need to go on a BLOG HOP!

Your first stop is THE COLOR ROOM Here

Water Colour Roses

I just adore roses (anyone who has been to my house can atest to this as my garden is full of them!) Anyway, I fell in love with this gorgeous Stampin Up Fifth Avenue rose stamp as soon as I saw it. I came across this fantastic water colour technique that Patty Bennett had used for her roses. I have adapted the technique to suit the products that I have. Instead of using ink as Patty has done, I have used water colour crayons. I think that the end result is kind of pretty





Materials Used
Stamp: Stampin Up 'Fifth Avenue Rose', 'Frienship Blooms' (sentiment)
Paper: Stampin Up Designer Series Kiwi Kiss
Cardstock: Bazzill
Spellbinder Dies: label and flourish 12"
Water Colour Crayons, White Ink, Clear Embossing Powder

Another Stampin Up stamp collection which is now high on my 'wish list' is the 'A Rose Is a Rose' Set thanks to Kellie (LOL!) I have always admired what Kellie does with this set, anyway I finally got to play with this set on Saturday myself when I attended one of Kellie's workshops. This is one of the cards that we made



Just love the 2 tone shading effect you can achieve with this set

Thanks Kellie for such a great afternoon and also to Jess (aka Martha Stewart) for putting us all up for the afternoon. I say Martha Stewart cause she put on this amazing yummy spread for afternoon tea.

It was fun to just hang out and have a couple of kid free hours!