Oh How Painful!

This week's Bloggers Challenge was a color challenge: Purely Pomegranate, Old Olive, & Brilliant Blue. Yikes! I honestly looked at the 'assignment' three times because I couldn't imagine putting those colors together. I kept thinking I was reading it wrong. LOL! For one, I NEVER use Brilliant Blue. The good thing was... I had plenty of paper to play with - since it's never been touched. :)

Looking at the finished product... I guess the colors are not as painful as I first thought. :) We're getting a snow storm tonight and it makes me cringe! I am SO ready for Spring! When I was in California for CHA, I was amazed to see beautiful blooming flowers everywhere. I guess if I can't have real flowers right now, the next best thing is a stamped one.

I was looking through my stamps and realised that I hadn't used this one for awhile! I love this image (found in the Simple Pleasures set) by Gina K. I used my Copics and then highlighted the blooms with Stickles. For the vase, I applied Ranger Glossy Accents to create the illusion of 'water'. It looked like it still needed something, so I ran it through my Cuttlebug to emboss it.

The Pomegranate panel is stamped using CHF's Pretty Pattern BG. The sentiment is also by CHF (from Kim Hughes' Silhouette Blooms II set).

I have been dying to do one of Julee Tilman's Mojo Monday sketches! This is based off of this sketch of hers. If you want to see what other bloggers did with this funky color challenge, just click on the link on my sidebar. :)