Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Color Throwdown



Hi everyone! We're into February already (c'mon spring!) and it's the month for love!  Lori is our hostess and she's chosen red, pink, dark gray and light blue for the Color Throwdown Challenge this week!  Here's my take on it...


Next to Christmas, Valentine's Day is my fave holiday when it comes to stamping!  I never tire of using hearts on my projects and this time I'm using a brand new Stacked Hearts die by Simon Says Stamp...LOVE it!  I smooshed Tumbled Glass, Festive Berries, Spun Sugar mixed with Picked Raspberry distress inks on some acrylic sheets, spritzed with water then dabbed my paper into the inks until I was satisfied with the mix.  The sentiment (Wet Paint) is by Papertrey Ink and was die cut three times from Basic Gray CS by SU and stamped with Silver Lining ink by WPlus9.  The stitched border is an MFT Die-Namics die.  For you Downton Abby fans, my card rather resembles the one dramatic scene in the dining room - lol!  Don't want to say anything else in case someone hasn't watched the last episode. Fair warning though...brace yourself for a startling turn of events!  But I digress.

We're super thrilled to have Kay Miller as our guest designer this month!  She has been a stamping idol of mine for quite some time and has inspired me time and time again with her talents!  

Congratulations to Samantha Johnson of Samantha's Cards - our guest star stamper this week!  

For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Barbara Anders  
Broni Holcombe   
Joan Ervin
Jodi Collins 
Lisa Henke
Lori Tecler
Lynn Put  
Vickie Zimmer 
Wanda Cullen (you are here)
Kay Miller - February Guest Designer

Looking forward to seeing how you use these colors this week!   Happy stamping!

9 comments:

Petra Swart said...

Your bg and the cute little hearts are lovely, Wanda!!!! Such a fabulous VD card!!
Hugz

Lisa H. said...

what a great card. that background is awesome!

~amy~ said...

awesome!

Joanne said...

Love that awesome background and the colors!

Vickie Z said...

Look at you and Broni!! Love that SSS die! Love the background and design!!

Lynn Put said...

This is so pretty, Wanda! Love your distress ink background and card design. Yes, Downton was quite dramatic last Sunday! It had me sitting up in my chair saying OMG!

Marisa said...

This is fabulous, Wanda. Love the BG and that heart die cut is wonderful!

Lori said...

Love the smooshed background! Looks great with the hearts!

Barbara said...

Another one using that hearts die! I love it and your background is gorgeous, Wanda!!