The new Color Hues Challenge is up, and I'm the hostess this time. I chose Copper and Green with a metallic planter and green plants in mind.
I didn't post the first card I made on the Color Hues site, but I'm including it at the end of this post. I wasn't 100% happy with it, and after seeing a card by my friend Kelly, created with The Greetery's Modern Planters I decided to do a remake. I had reward points at The Greetery which paid for a portion of the new purchases. I'm happy I own the planters as well as Plant It: Spider Plant as I think there will be lots of opportunities to use them.
The planters come in two sizes with a stand and a saucer. I took advantage of all of them. With some copper metallic cardstock, I die cut the two pots, and ran the small pot through a Sizzix embossing folder for some texture and dimension. The spider plant ink blended with some Distress Oxide inks after it was die cut from a yellow/green cardstock. I needed some plants for the smaller pot and found them in the Spellbinder Bold Blooms die set.
I decided on Papertrey Ink's Soft Stone cardstock for the background and die cut the smaller panel with Ellen Hutson's Lattice Background die. I mounted it on the card base with dimensional tape.
You can see the shine better here as well as the sentiment embossed with Copper Pearl Embossing Powder which has been in my stash for awhile.
Here's the first card I made. There's nothing wrong with it, exactly, it just didn't seem interesting enough. I'm sure I'll find a good home for it one day.
The background here is an embossing folder from Taylored Expressions, and the greenery came from a number of dies. The Pretty Pot is from The Greetery as is the tag and sentiment.
The copper embellishments were die cut with a berry die since I didn't have any copper gems or pearls.
Hop over to the Color Hues blog and be inspired by our Guest Designer, Greta, and the Design Team. I'll be looking for your cards in our gallery!
I'm sending the first card to Darnell's NBUS Challenge - my third entry which means I'm doing a better job of using new and unused stamps!
