Hello friends and welcome back! It's time for a new Color Challenge at Splitcoaststampers! Barbara is hosting this week and has chosen the lovely combo of Terracotta Tile, Coastal Cabana and Granny Apple Green, with a dessert option to use an embossing folder. Unfortunately I had to skip dessert this week because it wouldn't work with my design.
I wanted to make an unconventional Valentine for my husband because we really don't celebrate this holiday in the traditional sense, but it's part of my dna as a card maker to make a card if there's an occasion! And because my husband is a major green thumb and loves cactus and succulents, the Suzy's Watercolor Print worked perfectly along with this week's CC colors!
I used Copic markers in colors similar to the challenge colors along with four that are similar to Stampin' Up neutrals Merry Merlot, Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso and Crumb Cake. I tried to mix up the colors of the plants, sometimes even laying down a blue green before coloring with the yellow greens, just to change things up.
I started by coloring the background in a light brown to avoid inadvertently touching one of the darker colors and pulling it into the background. After everything was colored I used a white gel pen on some of the pots to create a design. When all was complete, the panel was die cut with a stitched wonky rectangle die and the sentiment die cut with a circle die, added with foam squares and the entire panel added to the Coastal Cabana base with fun foam.
Thanks so much for visiting, I really appreciate it! I hope you'll join us for the Color Challenge this week!
Stef
Stamps: Spoken Bird (sentiment, Hero Arts My Monthly Hero kit February 2018)
Paper: Neenah Solar White, Coastal Cabana, Suzy's Succulents Watercolor Prints (Simon Says Stamp)
Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturne
Other: Wonky Rectangle die (SSS), Infinity Circle die (Hero Arts)
Copics:
Terracotta pots: E19, 08, YR18, 15, 14, 21
Bluegreen pots: BG13, 11, 10
Plants: Granny Apple Green-YG67, 17, 23; Mossy Meadow-G46, 43, 40; Coastal Cabana-BG13, 11, 01, YG13
Flowers: R89, 39, 37
Wood shelves: E49, 47; Background: E41
Shading on "white": T4, 2
I wanted to make an unconventional Valentine for my husband because we really don't celebrate this holiday in the traditional sense, but it's part of my dna as a card maker to make a card if there's an occasion! And because my husband is a major green thumb and loves cactus and succulents, the Suzy's Watercolor Print worked perfectly along with this week's CC colors!
I used Copic markers in colors similar to the challenge colors along with four that are similar to Stampin' Up neutrals Merry Merlot, Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso and Crumb Cake. I tried to mix up the colors of the plants, sometimes even laying down a blue green before coloring with the yellow greens, just to change things up.
I started by coloring the background in a light brown to avoid inadvertently touching one of the darker colors and pulling it into the background. After everything was colored I used a white gel pen on some of the pots to create a design. When all was complete, the panel was die cut with a stitched wonky rectangle die and the sentiment die cut with a circle die, added with foam squares and the entire panel added to the Coastal Cabana base with fun foam.
Thanks so much for visiting, I really appreciate it! I hope you'll join us for the Color Challenge this week!
Stef
Stamps: Spoken Bird (sentiment, Hero Arts My Monthly Hero kit February 2018)
Paper: Neenah Solar White, Coastal Cabana, Suzy's Succulents Watercolor Prints (Simon Says Stamp)
Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturne
Other: Wonky Rectangle die (SSS), Infinity Circle die (Hero Arts)
Copics:
Terracotta pots: E19, 08, YR18, 15, 14, 21
Bluegreen pots: BG13, 11, 10
Plants: Granny Apple Green-YG67, 17, 23; Mossy Meadow-G46, 43, 40; Coastal Cabana-BG13, 11, 01, YG13
Flowers: R89, 39, 37
Wood shelves: E49, 47; Background: E41
Shading on "white": T4, 2
1 comment:
I can not begin to tell you how much I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this card. it is a work of art. I would frame it. The coloring is amazing and the color palette is gorgeous! I know your husband loved it!
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