One of my absolute favorite cardmakers/designers is now hosting a color challenge on her blog! Dawn McVey is known for her cool color choices on her cards and now she's sharing some more inspiration through the challenge. And did I mention that her new Damask Designs set at Papertrey Ink is my absolute favorite stamp set right now??! Here is the challenge...
And because I loved the colors SO much, I made 2 cards to go with it. I LOVE how they turned out (if I do say so myself!)
I had a little fun with this one...I used the Damask Designs set to make the flowers. First I stamped the large solid dot from Polka Dot Basics to give me a guide and then I used one of the small damask stamps and went around the dot to form the flowers. They had kind of a pointy "star" type look when I was done, and while I liked that, It didn't look very flower-like, which is what I wanted. So I just rounded off the tips and then roughed up the edges all the way around with the edge of my scissors and topped of the flower with a button in the middle. I used the swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder on the whisper white card base and then used the large outlined circle from the Polka Dot basics set to create that pattern on the chocolate chip strip and then punched it with my fiskars threading water punch. The sentiment is from the Damask Designs set as well.
This one was harder for me to incorporate ALL of the colors fromt he challenge because I really did like it with just the spring moss and the chocolate chip and white. BUT I made myself add a little teal. This one is a whisper white card base, with a background of Damask Designs stamped piece of Spring Moss cardstock (I used Spring Moss ink). Then I added a piece of chocolate chip stamped with the polka dot designs and then one of the large images from Damask Designs in Spring moss topped with a sentiment from Damask Designs. The two swirls in teal are from the Wedding day set and then I just used some adhesive backed rhinestones to finish it off. (they are all blue...the picture makes the middle one look a little weird) I don't know the manufacturer of those because I won them in a blog candy last year :-).
I REALLY enjoyed this challenge! You should go play too! You can find the challenge here at her blog, My Favorite Things
Have a good day, everybody!
6 comments:
I love how you made those flowers - I have to try that. Great cards!
Very pretty cards. The more I see these PTI stamps, the more I want to get them!
Really fun stamps and images. Great job on the color challenge.
It's a good life!
Terri E.
Love the cards and the challenges sounds like so much fun! I will have to check it out! I enjoyed visiting your blog. Stop by and say hi sometime. I love making new blog friends, especially those who share a love for this wonderful scrapping hobby!
These are so pretty! Love the flowers on the first one and the stamp set on the second one! Great job!
Wow how pretty! Love the bottom one with the image cut out!
I also like the surface you are photographing your cards on! That looks so cool!
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