Hello! This week’s color challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches is a little different, but I hope you’ll give it a try!
I’ll admit the colors had me stumped for a good while. That was probably at least partly because I don’t own any of these actual colors, so I knew I’d have to figure out which colors I do own that are closest to the challenge colors. Finally I thought I’d try to use them as a background for a large sentiment. I found an old background block stamp and inked it up, using the lavender color toward the middle of the block, with the reddish-brown color surrounding it, and then the dark teal just on the edges of the stamp. Then I held the stamp under the mist from a water bottle before stamping it onto white cardstock. When I picked the stamp up off the cardstock, I learned that over the years, the edges of the stamp have curved in just enough that they barely made an impression on the cardstock. Ooops. But I decided to go along with it anyway. I die cut the word “happy” from the coordinating teal cardstock, attached it to the card front, and stamped the word “birthday” below it. It still seemed a little too blah so I used a stitched rectangle die to trim the excess cardstock from around the image, and then matted that with the teal cardstock before attaching it to a white card base.
It’s not one of my favorite cards. It doesn’t have as much white space as I think a clean and simple card should have. But it isn’t really a “bad” card. I may try going back to the proverbial drawing board and give these colors another go with some different idea.
How will you use these colors? Be sure to check out the CC&S blog to see what the rest of the design team and our May guest designer have made. Once you’ve made your own card, be sure to link it at the challenge post by 6:00 p.m. Eastern time Monday, May 11. We’d love to have you join us! Thanks for stopping by today.
Supplies:
Stamps: So Much to Say (Lawn Fawn); Large Straight-Edge Rectangle (Hero Arts)
Cardstock: Solar White (Neenah); Not Quite Navy (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Not Quite Navy, Dusty Durango, Almost Amethyst (SU)
Other: Simply Said Happy die (Avery Elle); Stitched Rectangle die (Lawn Fawn)
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You did great! I think this would work great for a man as well, which I find are hard to create. I also found this to be an usual color scheme as well so I’m love seeing what everyone’s come up with.