It’s the first of July, and time for a new Color Hues Challenge. I’m the hostess this time around, but the colors were chosen ahead of time. Our Design Team has accepted a gracious invitation from Michele of I Card Everyone to be her guests on her series “Playing Cards with Friends.”
The colors are perfect for the upcoming holiday, but are also very versatile for any time of the year.
For this challenge not only are we using the Colors RED and Blue, Michele asked the Design Team to incorporate STARS and or STRIPES in our designs. I've got both--a very patriotic birthday card for my mother-in-law who turns 93 on July 5th.
Now, since Color Hues is strictly a Color Challenge, the stars and stripes are NOT going to be required from our participants, but if you want to add them in you certainly may!
Like many crafters, I keep an assortment of already stamped, embossed, colored, or need-to-be-colored items. I file them in clear envelopes by type. Recently, I found a white panel with a die cut circle and a white piece that had been run through an older embossing folder from Cuttlebug with stars. That was the beginning of the idea for today’s card.
You can see that it evolved from there. I had one last piece of red and white striped paper from a My Favorite Things paper pack I used as the background for the card. I used the white panel with the stitched die cut circle I had found earlier, but embossed the stars on navy card stock, and then ran a brayer with white ink over the panel to make the stars more visible.
The sentiment embossed in white on red card stock is from Altenew’s “Sentiment Strips 2” set, and die cut with one of The Greenery’s “Pretext Banner” dies. After photographing the card for the blog, I decided it needed a bit of sparkle, so added some tiny rhinestone stars to the centers of the stars in the circle.
We’ll be celebrating my mother-in-law's birthday at a cottage on Canandaigua Lake, and all five of her children will be present so it's sure to be a festive day!
Now go take a look at the fabulous Red and Blue cards by the Design Team, and when you are done with those, go check out Michele's amazing card!!!