Complimentary Colours. . . . . . .

The challenge at Make My Monday continues with the colour wheel theme. This week we are asked to use two complimentary colours on our work: purple and yellow.

Purple and yellow?? I know they work well together but they are not a combination that usually appear together on my desk! However, not one to shirk a challenge, I put my brain in gear and had a very long, hard think about this one. How to make something that used the inky look I like so much but which kept true to the challenge? Not easy, was the obvious answer I'm afraid.

I began, as usual, by making a background and taking it from there - I like to do things this way round for some reason. Probably because I just love making backgrounds I suppose!

Here's what I've made this time - fewer photos than usual, (you may be pleased to see!):

My completed card.

The inky background was made with dylusion and distress inks. It's difficult to see but there is stamping in the background and some dylusion mask work too. A white pen was used to randomly highlight sections of  the mask work. There is also some embossing using crystal powder and some glossy accents work - truly - it really is there I promise!

Two butterflies were die cut, inked with distress and stamped with versafine ink. Crackle glaze was applied and when dried, some gold paste was swiped around the edges. Purple thread was used as antennae to finish the look.
The butterflies were placed on embossed card which was sprayed with dylusion ink - some distress ink was added to the edges. Finally, some gold embossing powder was roughly applied around all the edges - far too time consuming I realised half way through! I really wanted to add other colours to the embossed card but I did resist the urge to stray too far from the challenge requirements!

The main piece was then layered onto textured card which had extra distress ink added to give depth. The purple layer was also lightly sprayed with gold shimmer to link in with the gold paste and embossing powder.

To be honest, at the start, this was not a colour combination I would normally have used but it was a good experience to work outside my usual palette and I have the ladies at Make My Monday to thank for giving me the chance to so for the last three weeks. Do let me know what you think of my efforts - I'm always interested!