As You See It Pastels

It's Friday morning over here at As You See It Challenges, and time for Challenge #011.  This week, Amanda has given us a pastel colour challenge and here it is:

What a gorgeous combination!  But I always think spring when I see pastel colours, which is a nice break from all the Christmas and winter cards I've been doing lately.  Here's my sample:

• I just got a new stamp set, Gifts of Kindness and I thought it would work well with this challenge.  
• I love that the flowers are polka-dotted, don't you?  Blushing Bride worked well for those.  I tried adding some embellishments to the flowers, like buttons, candy dots and pearls, but nothing really worked so I left them plain.
• I did add a little snippet of Pistachio Pudding Ruffle Stretch trim, so it wouldn't be too plain.

• I really like some of the sentiments in this stamp set, but my favourite one is "My shoulder is yours...". It says it all.
• Some Pistachio Pudding Fancy Fan DSP from the In Colour Designer Series Paper Stacks creates a great flag in the back ground.
• The So Saffron cardstock has been embossed using the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder.
• You can see a White Tea Lace Doily peeking out from beneath the sentiment and notice the Pistachio Pudding In Colour Boutique Detail highlighting the sentiment as well.

I can hardly wait to see what you do with this colour challenge!

Stamps:  Gifts of Kindness (w130441; c130444)

Paper:  In Colour 2013/15 Designer Series Paper Stacks (130136); Pistachio Pudding (131294), Blushing Bride (131198), So Saffron (105118) and Very Vanilla (101650) cardstock

Ink:  Classic Stampin' Pads in Blushing Bride (131172) and Pistachio Pudding (131177)

Accessories:  Tea Lace Paper Doilies (129399); In Colour Boutique Details (130938); 3/8" Ruffle Stretch Trim in Pistachio Pudding (130020)

Tools:  Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder (117335)

 2013-2015 In Colour Designer Series Paper Stacks

Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder

Gifts of Kindness Stamp Set

In Colour Boutique Details