Marcia is our hostess at Color Hues this week, and she's chose a rich color combination:
When planning this card I had two objectives: use a new-to-me but never used product (I have far too many of these) and create a masculine birthday card.
The closest paper I had is a bit deeper merlot than in the challenge logo and is from Paper Source. The navy cardstock is Concord & 9th's Midnight paper. I was rather disappointed the last time I ordered it to discover it's now a brighter navy than the previously released Midnight which was the darkest navy I owned. The wonderful Concord & 4th Triangle Background was the starting place. I die cut the small triangles from the merlot and navy cardstock as well as some silver shimmer paper from Paper Source.
This angle shows the shimmer a bit better. I embossed the sentiment from The Greetery and die cut it with one of Simon Says Stitched Banners, and stacked it up with three additional banners die cut from navy. That piece had been die cut with the smaller rectangle from Gina K's Master Layout #1, and I layered it on a larger rectangle from the silver before adding it to the navy card base. I debated about using the silver pearls, but think they are just fine even for a masculine card.
I'm sure you'll find lots of inspiration from the Design Team and our Guest Designer at the Color Hues blog, and I hope you'll add your take on these colors to our gallery during the next two weeks.
I'll be sending this off to the new July NBUS since I'm happy to have another Never Before Used Stuff off that list!