Good morning!
Welcome to another Play Date Cafe Challenge! The challenge for this week - #147 - is a little different than normal, featuring four fab colors instead of three. I will say, that fourth adds a little zing to things!
We were sponsored by gel-a-tins this week, and I used the cute Peace gelly jr's for my card.
I started by stamping the image repeatedly onto my background. Then I added an embossed and a punched strip of cardstock. I finished it off with some ribbon twine and a fussy cut dove, accented with some pink rhinestones and a little Stickles.
When making this card, I tried to keep in mind how I wanted to balance the colors. Since we were using four colors this week, three of which are pretty bold, I knew I had to focus on one or two for the majority of the card and just use the rest as accents. Of course, I threw a little Oatmeal in there for a neutral, but I like the end result and I feel like this method helped to keep the colors from being too overwhelming. What are your thoughts?
I hope you will join us for this week's challenge. You have until next Tuesday to link your creation up over on the The Play Date Cafe Blog.
And a huge thanks to gel-a-tins for sharing some of their wonderful stamps with us this week!
Have a great day, my friends!
Welcome to another Play Date Cafe Challenge! The challenge for this week - #147 - is a little different than normal, featuring four fab colors instead of three. I will say, that fourth adds a little zing to things!
We were sponsored by gel-a-tins this week, and I used the cute Peace gelly jr's for my card.
I started by stamping the image repeatedly onto my background. Then I added an embossed and a punched strip of cardstock. I finished it off with some ribbon twine and a fussy cut dove, accented with some pink rhinestones and a little Stickles.
When making this card, I tried to keep in mind how I wanted to balance the colors. Since we were using four colors this week, three of which are pretty bold, I knew I had to focus on one or two for the majority of the card and just use the rest as accents. Of course, I threw a little Oatmeal in there for a neutral, but I like the end result and I feel like this method helped to keep the colors from being too overwhelming. What are your thoughts?
I hope you will join us for this week's challenge. You have until next Tuesday to link your creation up over on the The Play Date Cafe Blog.
And a huge thanks to gel-a-tins for sharing some of their wonderful stamps with us this week!
Have a great day, my friends!
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Recipe
STAMPS: Peace - gel-a-tins
CARDSTOCK: Oatmeal - Wplus9; Island Indigo, Old Olive, Sahara Sand - SU!
INK: Island Indigo, Rose Red - SU!; Antique Linen Distress Ink - Ranger Industries
OTHER: Twine - PTI; Apron Lace punch - Fiskars; Fancy Fan Embossing Folder - Sizzix; Stardust Stickles - Ranger Industries; Adhesive rhinestones