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Sunday, August 10, 2014

A Beautiful Bunch of Color {PP208}

Hello and happy Sunday to you! I am delighted to be this week's hostess at The Paper Players for a color challenge:

I love color. I love mixing colors. I love bold color combinations. This one might scare a few people--often 4 color combos do. But that's what a challenge is, right? Something you might not otherwise do on your own, if not pushed a little bit. :-) I saw this photo on Pinterest and fell in love with the colors and texture of these flowers and really just couldn't help but use flowers on my card:

One way to handle a four color combination is to treat the two similar colors almost as one color. Here, I stamped the flower from Beautiful Bunch in Calypso Coral ink on Blushing Bride cardstock. The result is a colored flower, with dark highlights that didn't require any extra effort. Stamping the darker color on lighter cardstock is a quick and easy way to "color" the flowers. You will notice that the flowers are the only place I used Blushing Bride, while the grey is an accent color and the Hello Honey really makes a statement.

I connected the Hello Honey background to the flowers by pulling the color to the center. The same flower was stamped again onto Hello Honey cardstock with the same ink color and just the center was punched with the Boho Blossoms punch. It fits the center of the flower quite well! I colored some pearls with the darkest Daffodil Delight Blendabilities marker for a shade that is very close to Hello Honey. And, see the ribbon? I am in love with using ribbon this way! Just loop it around and secure the ends with a glue dot behind the flower. It's a great way to incorporate the honey color again without being too heavy--plus the loopy ribbon is uber trendy right now!

Of course, chevrons are still on-trend and the Chevron background stamp looks so regal when clear embossed. Such shine! Such pizzazz! Love it!

Of course it wouldn't be a Canopy card without a completed inside so I stamped some more flowers in the challenge colors (stamping off once with the Calypso Coral) and added another sentiment from Endless Birthday Wishes.

I hope you've enjoyed my card today. I just know you will enjoy what the rest of the Design Team is sharing with you. Be sure to pop by their blogs and say "hi"! We would love for you to play along with us at The Paper Players before our color challenge closes on Friday, August 15th at Noon (PST).
Thanks for stopping by, friends!

The Paper Players Design Team

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Sunday, February 9, 2014

A Mixed Bunch of Happy {PP182}

Happy Sunday everyone! I am thrilled to be the hostess this week at The Paper Players for a color challenge!

Color challenges are my favorite. I am so inspired by color everywhere I go and this week's challenge is no exception. I snapped the photo during a recent day of shopping with my Mom and daughter. We had so much fun looking at all the jewelry, scarves and clothes that we were there for TWO hours! OMG, like kids in a candy store we were! Anywhooo....I love the colors and patterns in these necklaces and couldn't wait to turn them into a card:

These colors really made me happy! Of course gold is the in "color" this season so I was happy to incorporate that too. Do you notice the striped effect given by the hanging necklaces in the photo? That inspired my background panel which consists of layered strips of Crisp Cantaloupe and Midnight Muse cardstock attached to a piece of Whisper White cardstock. I wanted to add a little more dimension so I clear embossed the Positively Chevron background over the whole piece.

Layering the cardstock first makes it as easy as a single piece to stamp the background. It was a last minute decision to clear emboss the stamping when the Versamark alone wasn't deep enough. I really like the shine it provides.

This is my favorite stamp from Mixed Bunch and I think the clean lines are a good companion to the stripes and chevrons. I started to embellish the flower centers and once I started with the Very Vintage Designer Button, I couldn't stop! LOL. I punched two of the largest Boho Blossoms flower from Midnight Muse and Champagne Glimmer paper--layering them for just a peek of color. With an accent of Gold Baker's Twine at the bottom of the card, it seemed fitting to add some more to the flowers! ;-) I just made a small loop and attached it to the back with glue dots.

Leaves don't have to be green! Champagne Glimmer makes a lovely accent to the tones of Crisp Cantaloupe and Midnight Muse. The Secret Garden Framelits cut through the glimmer paper like a hot knife in butter! So easy that a little bit was needed to back the Perfect Pennants banner. I trimmed the sentiment banner down to the stamped image so the glimmer paper would peek around it.

There you have it! I hope I've inspired you to play along with these beautiful colors before the challenge closes on Friday, February 14th at Noon (PST). If you need even more encouragement, take a peek at the rest of the Design Team for some lovely inspiration! Thanks for stopping by, friends!