Splashes of Watercolor

It’s Wednesday! And time for another Color Throwdown color challenge! Would you look at this week’s gorgeous color combination? So yummy!

I couldn’t wait to try these colors out. At first I thought a masculine card would be just perfect. And it would, except I just didn’t know which stamp sets to use. The more I browsed, the more I thought maybe elegant would be the way to go. So this is what I came up with:

Baroque background was stamped in Adirondack Espresso onto the old olive layer. The sentiment is also stamped in Espresso. The flower/leaves silhouettes are stamped in Lettuce and Aqua.

I used my Spellbinders oval Nestabilities for the sentiment layers. The overall card size is 5 x 5.

Please stop by the Color Throwdown blog to check out the design team’s creations or just visit their blogs here:

• Cathy Indelicato
• Kisa Peters
• LeAnne Pugliese
• Tammy Hershberger
• Tracy Durcan

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Stamps: Baroque Background, White Flowers, Just Leaves, You Make My Heart Smile – Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

Paper: white, baja breeze, old olive, chocolate chip

Ink: Adirondack – Espresso, Lettuce, Aqua

Accessories: oval Nestabilities, chocolate chip satin ribbon, sewing machine, decorative pearl stickers, foam mounting tape

Items available at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

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What’s this, you say? A second card on Wednesday???

Well, sure! That’s because there’s a NEW RUBBERNECKER WEEKLY CHALLENGE. Check it out on the Rubbernecker blog.

This week’s challenge is to use Spellbinders Nestabilities! Easy, peasy! I have a bunch of them and use them on practically everything anyway!! Uh, did you notice I used them on the Color Throwdown card as well!? I couldn’t help myself! There’s no easier way to cut a layer for an image or sentiment!

Or how about for the card itself? I used the largest scalloped square Nestabilities die to cut the polka dotted layer and also a white layer for the back of the card. I used Jen d’s method of attaching the back (scoring 1/2″ down from the top on the back, then gluing only that part to the front) so that my entire outer edge remains scalloped.

The image was colored with Copic markers and the cherries were covered with Star Dust stickles. I cut a slit along each side of the cupcake with a craft knife for the ribbon to slip through.

Be sure to check out the Rubbernecker blog for the challenge details, and also to see what the design team is doing, check here:

• Bev Gerard (Tex)
• Candy Williams
• Juliana Swanson
• Kittie Caracciolo
• Linda Duke
• Shelly Kuck
• Sherry Cheever
• Tami Mayberry

That’s it for today! Thanks so much for coming by for a visit! See you next time!

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Stamps: Cupcake Mice – Stamp Oasis Little Lovin’s

Paper: white, textured wild wasabi, DCWV Nana’s Kids

Ink: Memento – Tuxedo Black

Accessories: plain & scalloped square Nestabilities, corner rounder punch, craft knife, wild wasabi ribbon, Star Dust stickles, foam mounting tape, Copic markers – C1, C3, E31, E33, B21, B24, G21, YG67, R11, R22, R24

Items available at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.