Magenta March Challenge!

March 2014 - Magenta Challenge :

Spring is coming!

Create a Card, a Layout or even an alterned object if you feel like it

and use at least one Magenta product :

papers, stamps, embellishment, Peel Off's, chipboard and more...

You have until March 30th to enter!

You could win this Magenta Prize :

Click here to see what the Design Team has created, and use in linkz to submit your page.  Here's my card:

I took a piece of watercolor paper (140# cold press) and sprayed it with 4 different colors of Radiant Rain mists.  This is very pretty and sparkly in real life.  I let it dry, and put the Magenta Stencil Template TM-43 over the top.  The bird and branch image was lined out with a Micron pen, and leaving the template in place I added additional color to the image using Pan Pastels.  

To get the right color ribbon, a white ribbon was colored using a Copic marker.  The sentiment was added onto a piece of white card stock that was punched out with an EK Success Photo Label punch.  I added some flowers to the sentiment with another Magenta stamp, Small Flower Branch.  

This was actually a very easy card to make, and really fun.  I love how the Radiant Rain mists look, and I will definitely be using them more in the future.  They create a beautiful background, and placing the stencil over the colors and just adding more color is super simple.  Following are details on all the stamps and materials I used.

Magenta Stamps:  07.834.F    Find Your Song

                              0679.G       Small Flower Branch

Magenta Template:  TM-43     Birds Template

Radiant Rain Mists:  Ocean Wave; Ginger Peach; Spanish Moss; Copper

Pan Pastels:  520.3 Ultramarine Blue Shade; 660.3 Chromium Oxide Green Shade; 430.5 Magenta;    911.5 Rich Gold; 931.5 Copper

Memento Markers:  Rose Bud; Olive Grove

Copic Marker:  B14 Light Blue

Watercolor Paper:  Strathmore 140# Cold Press

Matted with blue paper of unknown provenance

EK Success Photo Label punch