Black With 2 April Challenge

Hello scrappy friends!  Today I thought I would play along with a cool challenge over at Black With 2.   I came across this challenge blog and love it.  The April challenge was to use black card stock for the background, use the colours as shown as well as the sketch and word "inspiration" in the journaling.

Here is what I came up with for the challenge.

Now if the truth be known, I have always found purple to be a difficult colour to scrap and I didn't want my layout to look like halloween as these colours I tend to think make a good halloween layout.  I had a photo of an Iris that I photographed of my mom's garden and used that for my layout inspiration.

I cut the title, the scalloped circle, the little banner, a tag,  and the flower die cuts with my Silhouette Cameo and added some flowers that I have had in my stash for probably seven years or so.  I also added some twine and a sheer piece of navy blue ribbon to the tag and finished off the layout with some journaling with a white pen and some enamel dots and pearls.

It was a fun challenge and it definitely went outside my comfort zone.  I hope you enjoyed your visit.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!