Today is the second Wednesday of April and that means, not only that it's the day I do the Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop,
but that we celebrate the whole rainbow of colors with the Monochrome Rainbow Challenge.
Our leader, Angie MacKenzie has organized the colors by time zone. Here in Minnesota we are UTC - 5 which means I get to work with green! That certainly isn't hard for me. In fact, last week's color challenge over at Splitcoaststampers was Black + White + Gray with your favorite color for dessert. I love all colors but I especially love to work with green. Lately Soft Sea Foam and Granny Apple Green have been getting a lot of use!
This is my card:
- Of course I used my favorite combo of Soft Sea Foam with Granny Apple Green to color in these flowers on some of the True Love designer series paper (DSP).
- I took a chance on overdoing the diamond theme but I was happy with the way it turned out. The edge is simply the flip side of the paper that the flowers came from. The embossed white is done with the Dainty Diamonds embossing folder. I've featured this folder on some of my favorite cards over the past year and I'm so disappointed that it is retiring. If you don't already have it you can now get it for 10% off. Get it while you can!
- The greetings is from Many Messages, a background sized stamp full of greetings that can all be cut out at one time with one large die. This bundle is from the January - June Mini catalog and will even have another coordinating stamp in the upcoming annual catalog.
Beautiful card, right? But then I received a package with new colors and ... TWO new greens: Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen and I knew I would have to add another green card to this rainbow.
I chose to play with the Pansy Petals Suite to get to know these greens. Pansy Petals, the coordinating DSP has a stripe with the two new greens AND Soft Sea Foam:
These are just some of the possibilities with the three greens along with Basic White and Very Vanilla. Here is my first card using one of these pansies:
- You can see I drew all the greens from the stripe. I made the stripe a little more feminine by bringing in the scallops which are from the Scalloped Contours Dies, another new set coming out in May. (Seriously, there's nothing better than being able to order early by being a demonstrator!)
- The Genial Gems (upcoming catalog - Hand-Penned Suite) are technically Mint Macaron but blend beautifully with the other greens.
- Ribbon is white faux linen from Flowers for Every Season combo. OK. Is that right?
- I've now used products from four Suite/Bundles. Well, that's the beauty of suites. The products in them do work together beautifully but stamping doesn't have rules and you can use them anyway you want!
Well, that's all for me this month so it's time to check out the rest of the hop.
We have 4 special guests this month and one of them, Lisa Martz, is next on the hop. I'm sure you will emjoy her beautiful work!
Mary Brown - US - Special Guest
Connie Babbert - US - Special Guest
Lisa Martz - US - Special Guest
Wendy Weixler - US - Special Guest
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