Color Throwdown 619

I love this Color Throwdown palette!  I would have preferred  the icy shade of  aqua, but my cardstock stash is limited in some colors. One last sheet of this Bazzill shade will have to do.  The snowflakes are Penny Black dies and the Joy is from Frantic Stamper.  Silver cord is used as an additional accent. 

 

Featuring the Sentiment for Color Throwdown

The color palette for the current Color Throwdown is a "juicy one," but I opted to use the colors to feature the sentiment, instead.  The sentiment is from Impression Obsession. 

Alcohol Inks for Color Throwdown

I really like the color palette of this Color Throwdown.  I was pretty certain I could use alcohol inks, but I found a piece of Yupo that was already inked in the colors.  I die cut the circle, stacked it on additional white die cuts and popped it all on foam tape.  "Friend" from Gina K Designs was cut in metallic gold cardstock and the piece was added to a dry-embossed layer on the card front. 

Color Throwdown for a Special Birthday

When this popped up in my e-mail, I was immediately in love with the colors!  And I just happened to need to make a birthday card for my youngest sister today.   I started with the colors, of course.  Although I was in love with stripes, my black and white paper pads don't include stripes.  Polka dots, yes!  Choosing a sentiment was next; I don't have many beyond the "Happy Birthday" ones.  The Emerson quote on a Wordsworth stamp seemed fitting.  To make the card decidedly feminine, I added the butterfly for the Color Throwdown challenge.

Color Throwdown 578

What a pretty color palette for Color Throwdown , and the illustration is even prettier!  

I tend to overloaded with floral images and sentiments, but more recently I purchased 3 Unity stamps featuring women.  "Poppy Girl" seemed just right for this group of colors. 

Starting the New Year with Color Throwdown

I've been away...in so many ways.  I haven't abandoned card-making:  I created 30 Christmas cards of various designs, but didn't post any on my blog.  I still want to make more Christmas cards because I bought new stamps!  Why, I really don't know. 

Although I don't do very well with color challenges, I was attracted to this new Color Throwdown with its simple color palette.  I even experimented with stacked circle cuts, my first attempt.  The 'leafy branch' die is from Pink Fresh; "happy" is from Simon Says Stamp. 

Color Throwdown Card for a Kid

Non-traditional colors for a Color Throwdown child's Christmas card:  turquoise, orange, gray/silver.   I chose the perennial favorite "Snowy" from Penny Black, paper pieced the hat and scarf and layered it on turquoise and metallic silver cardstock.  Turquoise dots accent the piece, with "Joy" from Penny Black.  A Wink of Stella adds some glitter to the orange pieces, although it isn't evident in the photo. 

Color Throwdown 565

Color Throwdown 565 has colors that I am comfortable with!  It is also a set of colors that I really like.  Lavender, gray and black were easy choices for my card that uses a digi image from gracielliedesign.  I colored with Stampin' Up watercolor markers and then "painted" with water. 

Color Throwdown 545 as Guest Star Stamper

It's amazing how the color palette colors change, depending on the printer.  However, my raspberry is a little brighter.  I pulled out my Twinkling H2O's for the painting, just to achieve the brightness that I wanted.  For this challenge, I purchased digi stamps from Vera Lane Studios on Etsy.  The kraft card front is further accented with kraft DSP featuring Live, Love, Laugh, and Life.  Color Throwdown 545

My First "Two-fer" Challenge

                                      

This is my very first card made to meet TWO challenges at once.  To be honest, it's all because of the flower.  I stamped it on paper that I thought would work with Color Throwdown 543, but just couldn't create what I wanted.  Then I decided to work on the Double D Challenge of "frames," and discovered that I could combine the two challenges!   The flower is a large Hero Arts cling stamp, which I stamped on patterned paper and then paper-pieced for some pattern variety and dimension. The frames are Wacky Stitched Rectangles from Cottage Cutz and the sentiment on gray is from Wordsworth.  The blue card front was dry embossed.

Color Throwdown #536

For this particular Color Throwdown challenge, I have been selected as the  Guest Star Stamper! I just felt that I wanted to do something different from what I usually do...and this cute little Penny Black image was just the ticket.  A corner punch from EK Success reveals the two primary colors while an old Hero Arts sentiment finishes the design.  The coloring is all accented with Clear A Wink of Stella, but it doesn't show up in the photo.  Under light, it sparkles, though.   I also chose to try to match the color swatch instead of the color names.  That in itself is always a challenge.  (The card front is cream-colored, but seems to photograph as white.)

Color Throwdown

Once again, I'm dealing with colors I rarely, if ever, use together.  I don't have any horned/antlered creature stamps, but I do have a cute Paperbag Studios image that works well with the colors in this week's Color Throwdown 534. 

Color Throwdown -- A New Direction

Our generic colors this week are Gray, Purple, Lavender, and Kraft.

This week's Color Throwdown palette really made me think...and work!  Personally, I struggled with the inclusion of kraft, particularly with the other colors.  One watercolor card looked terrible, and I almost decided I couldn't complete this challenge.  However, one of the cards posted on the link inspired me to use geometric shapes behind a feature piece, which took care of the kraft.  The sentiment is an old Inkadinkado stamp.  The die is from Memory Box.  

Color Throwdown #530

It was catch-up day after church today; I haven't been crafting for a week.  Color Throwdown's challenge is due tomorrow,and I actually found dark pink cardstock (on my monitor, it looks a bit red, but it's pink) in my stash--one sheet.  Recently, I used the Sizzix "Magical Butterfly" die but didn't complete my card; I liked the idea of "shadowing" the pink butterfly with a black one (yes, there is a black butterfly under the pink one) on the gray and white background.  The sentiment is from a mini stamp set from Gina K. Dry embossing of the gray strip and black rhinestones add some texture.

A Rainbow for Color Throwdown

Sometimes, I just can't complete a Color Throwdown challenge because I can't figure out how to use the colors.  This one was different!  I went to my Distress Oxide inks and found the colors I used: Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, and Squeezed Lemonade.  From the beginning, I knew that I wanted to create a "stacked" sentiment.  For Happy, I chose Altenew's die and a coordinating stamp. 

Color Throwdown with Neutrals

This is a color palette that didn't interest me until I began getting serious about card-making and other crafts.  Now I have several papers that work with the colors for the current Color Throwdown. The papers came from Prima's 6x6 "Engraver" pad.  I used an old Sizzix die of primitive hearts and then dry-embossed them in a folder of numbers. The sentiment is an old Stampers Anonymous stamp. 

A New Year and New Color Throwdown

For my first card of the new year, I chose an Inkadinkao image.  I colored with SU and Distress markers...and a Stampers Anonymous sentiment.  For once, I was easy to achieve the Color Throwdown challenge!  After fussy-cutting the image, I covered it with Glossy Accents to create a glossy look.

Christmas Color Throwdown

This Color Throwdown 519 is my favorite color combination right now!  It's fresh and vibrant.  I used a Penny Black die to cut a tree from the turquoise and a glitter silver cardstock, placing them on a layer dry-embossed with snowflakes.  The sentiment is from a collection of holiday greetings (no ID).  More silver was added to snowflake centers with tiny silver adhesive balls. 

Color Throwdown

For this Color Throwdown challenge, I chose the digi image from Power Poppy and colored it with watercolor markers.  I finished by painting Glossy Accents over the colored image and then cut it out with the Distressed Edge rectangular die. My little go-to enamel adhesive dots accent the old SU! sentiment.

Color Throwdown

I struggle to use so many colors, so I decided to try alcohol inks for this Color Throwdown challenge.   I realize that the blue I chose is more green; I relied too much on the name "patina," thinking it would have more blue in it.  I created the multicolored background with alcohol inks (crimson, sandal, patina, coral) and canned air.  I was then able to ink the postmark collage stamp for the first time.  It's a Dawn Houser design for Inkadinkado; "discover" is from Magenta.