The new Color Hues Challenge is live, and Carol has chosen another good one:White and Green.
They are perfect colors for St. Patrick's Day, and since it's also my husband's birthday, I wanted to find a design would work for both. I ended up with a two-fer which is always a good thing.
The first card I created is the one on the right. I started with the white die cut from Papertrey Ink, Decorative Circles Coverplate, which has always been a favorite. I layered it on a card base of New Leaf (a very shamrock-like color) and inlayed the black diamonds.
I also added some black gems to the center of each diamond, but they're almost impossible to see in the photo. The sentiment is from Altenew's One-Go Birthday Greetings embossed in white on black cardstock.
Having die cut a second panel of the coverplate in black for the diamonds above, I realized I could reverse the colors and ended up with this card:
For the sentiment here, I used a new stamp and die set from Spellbinders (their February Stamp & Die Club pick). After stamping and die cutting the sentiment, I die cut three more to stack for some dimension. This card will go to my husband. The inside birthday sentiment also comes from this set.
The white version is already in an envelope to go to a good friend who's birthday is next week.
Be sure to check out all the inspiration on the Color Hues Blog from the Design Team and our very talented Guest Designer, Nance.
I'm sending this off to Darnell's NBUS March gallery. This is the second time recently when I've used a new stamp and die in a timely manner!
