Week Four, Color Combination

It's the last week of Summer Card Camp, and I'm sad to see it end. It's been a quick 4 weeks. I have stepped way outside my comfort zone with these color combinations, but it's been a terrific learning experience. Thank you, Kristina Werner and Jennifer McGuire for the challenges and techniques and graphic design instruction!

Supplies for this card: Stampin'Up paper and ink, Hero Arts sentiment and stitch stamps, Impression Obsession stamps (silhouette and background), Sizzix die, Ranger Distress Ink. 

Week Three, Color Combination

I thought this week's color combination would be a bit easier, but I've discovered it's the number of colors that stumps me, not the colors themselves. I love these colors together, and 4 shades of brown and 1 red can be a challenge.

Background and sentiment stamps - Hero Arts

Patterned paper - Basic Grey (The red is from my stash, and it's ancient!)

Steel Die - Memory Box

Card stock, Owl punch - Stampin' Up

"Buttons"- Viva Pearl Pen

Ink - Colorbox Chalk Chestnut Roan, Versafine Onyx Black

Week Two, Color Combination

Once again, the color combination was a challenge, but I really like this card. My first "draft" was a regular A2 size card, and the elements just didn't fit on that space. I cut my card base to 4.25 by 4.25 inches and redesigned it.

I cheated a little on the second green, the olive one. I tried lots of other shades to match with the lighter green, and they  were painful to the eye. Scary.

Patterned papers for this card are from DCWV matstacks and a Cosmo Cricket Mini Deck. The lace ribbon is from Stampin' Up, and the stamps and gems are from Hero Arts.

Happy summer!

Week One, Color Combination

Two of my favorite card makers and bloggers, Kristina Werner and Jennifer McGuire, are teaching Summer Card Camp 2011. Leave it to me, the retired teacher, to wait until the last minute to get my card made and posted.

Our assignment was to make a card using all the colors pictured in the badge at the top of this post. Yikes! That's a lot of color! Anyway, I wanted to try the starburst technique, so here's my card:

I used patterned papers from Cosmo Cricket Mini Decks: UPcycle, Pixie-Licious, and Salt Air as well as DCWV's Citrus matstack. The flowers are ancient Prima flowers from my stash. The starburst technique is from Operation Write Home's Stars & Stamps Blog.