It's been a struggle...

Fact: I did not find this challenge easy!  I'm talking about this week's Lili of the Valley Challenge, which is Peach and Green.  Normally I would say that this is just my sort of challenge, soft girly colours, possibility of using lots of flowers etc.  In fact, it got off to a terrific start as I knew just which peachy coloured paper I was going to use.  After that, however, things went rapidly downhill!

I couldn't find a green paper which didn't clash with the peach and my other peach papers were either too pink or too orange.  Or I'm too fussy!  Eventually found a strip of grey-green K&Co paper and stuck this on.

I chose my Lili of the Valley stamp and coloured it with Copics.  Didn't like it.  Stamped again and coloured image with Prismas.  Better, but the green was all wrong.  Started again.  Tried a different image, coloured with Prismas.  Liked this better.  Decided to sponge round the edges with some distress ink. Made a complete pig's ear of it and had to chuck the thing.

Decided to go back to one of the others I had coloured - the one with the "wrong" green.  Found another K&Co sheet of green which matched the image a bit better.  Carefully picked off the "wrong" green from the card and put the new green on.  Are you still with me..?  You've got more patience than I have then.

So, where was I?  Oh, yes, I dismantled and rebuilt the card, stuck the image on and hauled out the boxes (yes, there are boxes, plural, I'm afraid) of flowers.  Could I find a peachy colour?  Obviously, I've got peach coloured flowers (I thought I'd got every colour known to man, truth be told) but sadly, I discovered I hadn't got the peachy colour I wanted today.  I tried green - didn't like that.  Back to peach.  Nope.  Took some ivory flowers and gave them a doing with some distress ink - yes, the same ink which was responsible for the chucking of the image I liked - and managed to get the wee flowers peachy enough.  It didn't work with the larger flowers though, so I decided to go with an existing peach one. 

Don't even get me started on the trouble I had taking a photo!  It's been almost dark here all day and I'm not the best photographer in the world, so the picture isn't great.  Irl the ribbon is peach but it looks bright pink here!  And just to add insult to injury, as I look at the picture now I see that one of the little roses has fallen off! 

There's been no sun to go over the yardarm, so I'm off to put the kettle on. I'll be having a skinny-vodka-valium-choca-mocha.

Stay sane!
Tracey xxx