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Hi Everyone!!  Happy Tuesday!
Are you ready for another fun challenge at Tuesday Throwdown!?
This week we have an amazing color challenge for you!  I fell in love with the colors in the image as soon as it was shared with me!  I know you are going to absolutely love it as well!  But first, let me share my card with you.

I tried a new technique on this card...can't say it turned out exactly the way I wanted it, but it was still pretty.  It's a technique that Jennifer McGuire shared a few weeks ago called Watercolor Lifting.  Now, I didn't use watercolors for my card (shocking, I know!) but I used distress inks and blended them onto my watercolor cardstock.  Once they were blended the way I wanted them, I clear embossed some gorgeous flowers from the Hero Arts Flower Garden set around my panel, making sure to fill the whole space.

After heat setting those images, I took a baby wipe and wiped away some of the color, but the clear embossing helped protect the ink underneath so those areas stayed nice and dark.  It's a gorgeous technique and I know I will give it another shot someday, I'm just not sure it totally worked on this card.  Maybe I didn't fill enough space with the images so the washed out background takes over too much?  I'm not sure...

But to help pull it all together, I blended the same blue I used on the background around my sentiment and then mounted that onto a scallop cut black frame.  I lined the back of that with some fun foam and then did a little silver string nest underneath before securing it to the card front.

Since there is so much clear embossing on this panel, I decided not to add any more embellishments since I feel it would have over cluttered the card.  I mounted all of this onto a black panel and the card was done.

I hope you will join us at Tuesday Throwdown for this fun challenge using these colors and neutrals:

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Creative Fingers #105-Anything Goes
    The Crazy Challenge #218-Flowers
    The Paper Players #287-Clean and Simple

Thanks so much for visiting!! <3