Welcome to my third week as guest designer for the Color Throwdown challenge. This week’s color combination is bright with Regal Rose, Tangerine Tango, Melon Mambo and soft Sage Shadow.
I admit that I had to put my thinking cap on for this combination. I always find inspiration by laying placing pieces of each color cardstock out on my work counter. My first thought with color challenges is always to find a way to use all the colors equally. It usually doesn’t take me long to realize that it’s unrealistic and to focus on one or two of the colors. For my project today I chose the soft sage as the main color and brought the three bright colors in small doses with flowers and butterflies.
I die cut the Memory Box Orchard Tree Frame using Sage Shadow and attached it over the vanilla base using Glossy Accents. I die cut two of the Poppy Stamps Grassland Border and then die cut the bottom of one using the Orchard tree die so I could fit it in to the ground area and not interfere with the line of the frame. I fit another border in behind the first one and then filled in using Martha Stewart’s Branch Punch (check out the link as it’s on sale at JoAnn’s)to add fullness to foliage. I die cut two of the Memory Box Leafy Branch and cut to fit in behind the grass border.
I die cut one Memory Box Flower Mound in the three bright colors and used both size mini flowers to fill in the grass area. I formed the flower using a stylus and mat and then picked up the flowers with my QuickStik and attached them to the foliage using Glossy Accents. I die cut all three colors of cardstock using the Memory Box Butterfly Delights and arranged them in the flowers and around the branches using Glossy Accents.
I may have gone a little overboard on butterflies and flowers but I love the way this turned out. I have gone punch and die crazy here.
Thanks for checking out my post today and I hope you will go and see what the other Color Throwdown designers have to share with you today.
Paper: Vanilla, Sage Shadow, Regal Rose, Tangerine Tango, Melon Mambo
Accessories: Memory Box Orchard Tree Frame, Leafy Branch, Butterfly Delights, Flower Mound, Poppy Stamps Grassland Border, Martha Stewart Branch Punch, Glossy Accents, Glue Dots, QuickStik, Stylus, Mat
Kittie, perfect card as always! Love those little details! Georgeous!
Wow, what a beauty! I love the delicate details and all the wonderful butterflies! This is so pretty!
Kittie, this is stunning! So many wonderful, intricate details…love it!
WOW! this card is seriously AMAZING! i just love it- all the dimension and butterflies and flowers are awesome.
Kittie, your cards are stunning, I just had to “Pin” this one but all of your cards are wonderful.
This is just wonderful Kittie! I love how it looks, just makes me smile!!
Elaine Allen
WOW! don’t you just love those Memory Box dies and what a beautiful detailed design. Love the colors, just perfect. …thanks for sharing…..hugs and smiles
I bought that orchard tree frame a couple weeks ago and still haven’t used it, love all the details you have added to it, just Gorgeous!
This is beautiful and the first time I have seen that Orchard Tree Farm die ~ it’s neat 🙂 Can never get enough of your stuff Kittie … T F S
Wow, oh wow! This is just beautiful! I LOVE how you die cut the grass then die cut again to make it fit the window! Brilliant! I could never do all the fussy little placement that you do perfectly! I’d be blind and crazy(er)!
Your card looks like a beautiful piece of art to frame. I love those dies and how you put them all together.
Ter 😉
I absolutely love this, Kittie…the frame is sooo pretty done in the sage and the sweet little butterflies and flowers are the iciny on the cake….beautifully done!!!
Just gorgeous! Love the pops of color from the butterflies and flowers.
Nope, not overboard at all! This is stunning, Kitty! I’m in love with it!
SOOOOO pretty! And sooooo Kittie! Hugs, Lesley
OMGosh, Kittie this is INCREDIBLE! What a gorgeous work of art!
saw this on pinterest and had to comment, what a beautiful card!
Just amazing, your blog brings so much joy to look at
Ali N.Z.
Très bon blog, était heureux d’apprendre beaucoup de choses ici, j’espère que je peux souvent l’air, je vous remercie beaucoup!
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Superbe !
Anna