kwernerdesign Color Challenge #50

Kristina Werner is having her 50th color challenge on her blog. I love her style and have learned so much from her over the last few years. I follow her blog religiously and have seen every color challenge...but I rarely get around to actually participating in them. However, 50 is a bit of a milestone...and she's giving away prizes...and who doesn't love prizes. Besides...it is a cold and rainy day here today so I have some time to actually stamp for a change!!

Her colors were really out of my comfort zone!! I mean....whoa!! But I do love them and the more I looked at them together, the better I liked them. So I pulled every crafting item that I owned out that matched these colors...buttons, ribbon, rub-ons, ink, specialty papers, threads, wire, primas, felt, ....you name it and it was sitting out on my craft table. Then, I worked on picking a layout that might be an interesting way to showcase such bright and funky colors. Then, I had to find stamps that might work with the colors and layout.... sheesh, this was a lot of work for me. LOL

Finally, I ended up with this creation. I started out with the 3 colors in the middle, stamping the turquoise and red panels only with white craft ink. Then, I matted them onto white and tied the Dark Chocolate swiss dots ribbon around the panel. Next, I cut a white circle and a brown scallop using my Spellbinder dies. Added my round sentiment (I love round sentiments...not sure why but I do). Then, I threaded and added the botton in the middle and adheared it to the panel with dimensionals for some pop. I attached this focal panel to a piece of brown cardstock and then attached it to a white card base.

Supplies: Stamps-Background Basics:Retro, Remember (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Whisper White craft, Chocolate Chip (Stampin' Up!); Paper - Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White (Stampin' Up!), Africian Daisy (Bazzill); Other - red button (Hero Arts), round and round scallop dies (Spellbinders), Dark Chocolate swiss dot ribbon (Papertrey Ink), thread (DCM), dimensionals.

Thanks for dropping in. Cross your fingers for me!!!

Donelda