Aug 20 2008
Color Throwdown Challenge #7
It’s Wednesday! Yay! Only a couple more work days left! It’s also time for another Color Throwdown challenge!
LeAnne chose 3 very soft and beautiful colors this week:
Now I’ve never been a big fan of apricot appeal, but I have to say that with the bashful blue and the ballet blue, it shines!
I wanted to try something a little different this week. I stamped my Just Leaves image in Ranger Clear Resist and Apricot Appeal (with the edges rolled in Cameo Coral), and clear embossed it. Then I stamped the White Flowers image in Ballet Blue after stamping off once on scrap paper.
Using my ink blending tool, I sponged behind the flowers with Ballet Blue and a good bit of the background in Bashful Blue. I then sponged all around the edges with Apricot Appeal.
I stamped the French Letter image in Apricot Appeal a couple of times at odd angles.
I layered the image panel on a strip of Apricol Appeal punched with a Martha Stewart scallop punch, then onto a strip of Ballet Blue. I pierced a line down the right edge of the Bashful Blue card base and tied a blue gingham ribbon on the left side.
So that’s it…my Color Throwdown card for this week. What do you think?
Check out what the other designers did this week too:
There are some beautiful cards using these colors!
And now I want to see what you can do! Upload a card to your blog or gallery using the keyword CTD7, and link it to the CTD7 post at the Color Throwdown blog. And have fun!!!
Thanks for visiting again today. I hope to get in a lot of stamping time this weekend, since it’s the first one I’ll get to spend at home in quite a while. Hopefully I’ll have a lot more cards to share with you soon!
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Stamps: Just Leaves, White Flowers (Jeanne Streiff collection), French Letter
Paper: white, bashful blue, ballet blue, apricot appeal
Ink: apricot appeal, cameo coral, bashful blue, ballet blue, Ranger clear resist pad
Accessories: ink blending tool, clear EP, Martha Steward scallop edge punch, 1/4″ square punch, blue gingham ribbon, piercing tool, mat and template
Items available from Rubbernecker Stamp Co.
26 responses so far
This is so pretty Broni! You made these colors work great together!!
Broni, this is beautiful! I love the technique and the background images you’ve used!
LeAnne
What an awesome card!!! Great use of the colors!
How very lovely! The colors are just wonderful together.
Broni, this turned out so beautifully! I LOVE what you did with the leaves! I must give that a try sometime! Thanks so much for sharing your gorgeous creations for our challenges each week!
These are not normally “my colors” either, but this card is really gorgeous! Great job, Broni! ;0)
WOW! Broni this is GORGEOUS!
I like the soft pastels you used as the main colors. The card is beautiful.
The soft coloring and red tips on the foliage is just fabo Broni!
Beautiful Broni!!
Beautiful! You always color or paint everything soo beautifully, and although there were no real images to color- in here…. you still managed to make it not just your normal stamped image! I love the collage-style. I love the leaves – the blue shading – gorgeous!
WOW how gorgeous is this! I love the colors and those stamps are awesome! 😀
WOW! I’d give it a 10…….PERFECT!
I keep wanting to try this challenge but keep running out of steam. I’m going to have to try it this week because I LOVE those colors!
Beautiful card! Love the accent of darker color on the leaves!
Wow……. what an awesome card!!! Great use of the colors!
You have been tagged!
Hugs Gisela
I think it looks fantastic! Gorgeous card.
Hugs and smiles
Oh, my goodness, would you look at this!!! How absolutely stunningly gorgeous! Thank you for this beauty. Love the script, the shading, the colors. Your artwork is masterful!! Love it!
This is so very beautiful, Broni!! I love those colors, and images!! I love the script in the background, and your lovely edging as well!!
Wow, Broni! I love what you’ve done with these images! Without seeing this beauty, I would have raised an eyebrow over the color combo, but this looks wonderful!
This is stunning!Love this!
This is beautiful, Broni — love all the sponging and the stamps are gorgeous! You combined the colors masterfully!
Oh my gosh, Broni! This is stunning!!! I love that color combo and you’ve used it BEAUTIFULLY!!!
I just love how you created these leaves!!!! Beautiful. Joan
This is stunning! A piece of art!!
WOW!! Those leaves look Fabulous!! Love it
Wowzers. This is gorgeous!