Showing posts with label Color Hues #65. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Color Hues #65. Show all posts

Friday, June 2, 2023

A flower by any other name... Color Hues #65

Hello, my friends!  How are you??  I've been kinda quiet, right?  Our weather has been TOO glorious not to get out and enjoy it!  

All it takes is a great color combination and a new stamp to get my juices flowing again!  My thanks to Julie Peddicord who is our host at Color Hues #65, for her fabulous color combo:


This is a favorite color combo at Christmas time, but it also worked beautifully with my newest floral collection from Altenew: Rock Trumpet!  As is my usual, I searched the internet for photos of these ... much to my surprise one of my favorite hanging basket blooms, the Dipladenia, is from the same genus of plants!

I gathered a few aqua and red inks:


 This Rocket Trumpet is HUGE!!  I was able to stamp it using my original MISTI onto an 8.5 x 6.5 inch piece of Neenah 80# card.  After stenciling the image with the coordinating stencils, I cut it with the matching die.  Yesterday, I watched a wonderful video by Erum Tasneem for Altenew where she showed how she used the die-cut image to make two A2 cards.  I managed to get two SLIMLINE cards from one image:


Two panels: 4 x 8.5" were first splattered with watery aqua ink, then I laid out the die-cut florals until I found the 'sweet spot' for dividing it!  Here are the two cards I was able to get from one image:



Of course, I had to 'hang' them!  
Here is the one I'll share with our friends at Color Hues:


Thanks so much, Jules - I loved playing cards with your colors!
=] Michele