Color Throwdown

It's Wednesday, so that means there's a new color palette posted for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge. Lori has chosen these beautiful soft colors...inspired by these gorgeous birds' eggs!

I used SU's Fabulous Florets and Gorgeous Grunge stamp sets with a sentiment from PTI's Tag-Its

#12 stamp set.  I used a 1" punch which fits perfectly into a flattened bottle cap.  Not sure why this ribbon doesn't look like it matches in the photo. :-(  I stamped the flowers in Daffodil Delight then added some color shading with Copic markers - Y15 and Y18.  I sponged the petal edges and stippled color to highlight the centers. You can hopefully see the sheen and sparkle from the Wink of Stella clear shimmer brush that I added to the flowers.  I'm also playing along with Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

For more inspiration, you'll want to check out the rest of the design team's creations below.  We're also thrilled to have Jeanne Jachna from A Kept Life as our April guest designer!    
     

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

                                              Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor 
                                                   Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

  Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud

Melody Rupple - A Paper Melody

Monika Davis - M.A.D. Stamper

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Vickie Zimmer -  Smitten   
Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations (you are here)
  Jeanne Jachna - (April Guest Designer) - A Kept Life

Before I end this post, I want to share some photos from a really fun weekend with some of the CTD team!  We met at Bar's house in VA which was a central location for many of us.  We really missed having Joan, Lori, Melody and Monika with us but, hopefully, this will become an annual event for us to get together!  There was no shortage of laughter and fun although we look rather serious in this first pic - lol!  The first photo shows Bar sharing a variety of ways to use the ever popular stencils.  We then worked with gelli plate printing - a messy but fun technique to create all kinds of fun backgrounds!  We ate breakfast at a local restaurant on Sunday morning before everyone headed back home.  A big THANK YOU to Bar and John for hosting us all!  You're the best!

 L. to R.: Broni Holcombe, Vickie Zimmer, Heather Shore (Tammy's friend who happens to be a SU demonstrator), Me, Barbara Anders, Tammy Hershberger.