Flowers and Chocolate

Hello inkers,

I've made a couple of CAS cards this week - the first is for Altenew's Inspiration Challenge - I have to admit I struggled a bit with the colours and went for a less is more approach.  I very lightly stencilled a background using the Grid Stencil in violet ink and added the yellow Peony from Beautiful Day

I'm still in practise mode with the watercolouring - it's improving but I find it so difficult to create shadows with watercolour mediums.  I either seem to use way too much water or not enough!

 

 

 

 

 

My second card is for Less is More with a challenge to use the colour 'chocolate'. Can you believe it's their tenth birthday? 

I didn't find this one easy either - I find the colour brown less than inspirational, particularly when it's on it's own and can't be combined with another hue! I coloured a chocolate cupcake from MFT with Copics, masked off a side panel using their Happy Birthday Background and semi cut a circle at the side to create a bit of interest. It all looked a bit plain so I added a thin strip of chocolate coloured card stock to the right hand edge. I can't help thinking it would look better in pink!

Hope you get the time to get your hands inky this weekend!

Claire