Back in August I hosted a week of all things color here at the Hero Arts blog. It was so much fun creating the projects and teaching you a bit about color theory and color schemes. Hero Arts received many requests for another week of color… specifically introducing you to some unexpected and somewhat CHALLENGING color palettes to expand your horizons. I turned to a favourite website of mine for funky and fresh color combos: www.kuler.adobe.com – if you haven’t visited this site, go and check it out. You will love the amazing combinations they offer on a daily basis.

Each day this week, myself along with two other designers will be challenged to use one specific color palette for our project. The rules are simply that we draw inspiration from the color swatches provided, and that we try and incorporate most or all of these colors into our project. We hope we can show you how we each interpret and used the color palette in a different way and we hope we can inspire you to give these and other unique color schemes a try.

Here is the color palette for today…don’t you just love it?

Dark teal blue, spring green, maize yellow, orange, dark burgundy

First up is a card I made using these dynamic colors. I really was inspired by this color scheme. My favourite color (green) accompanied by so many delicious colors made this a lot of fun to work with. The colors made me think of sunshine and flowers so I went with that as my “starting point” of inspiration in my card. I added a little bit of sparkle with Hero Arts self-adhesive gemstones.

Card by Leslie Lightfoot.
Supplies:

• NEW for 2009: Hello Circles
• Clear Design: Frames and Messages
• Fall Notecards with Envelopes
• Memories Artprint Brown Ink
• Colorbox Chalk Queue: Misty Meadows
• Teal Gemstones
• Other: Chipboard (Fancy Pants), Brad (Autumn Leaves), Cuttlebug embossing folder (Swiss dot).

Next, we have a wonderful owl card by Laura Griffin. She says, “Sometimes, it can be overwhelming getting started on a project when you have every color in the world available to you. That’s why I enjoy working with color schemes, either using a photo from a favorite catalog as inspiration; or in this case, a fun color combo from Leslie. These five colors remind me of what has been going on outdoors for the last two weeks. I live in Texas, and all of the trees have been shifting from green to different shades of yellow, orange & reddish-brown. I knew they would work great with a nature theme, and I chose owls because I can’t resist them these days!”

Card by Laura Griffin
Supplies:

• Bird Greetings
• Memories ArtPrint Brown Inkpad
• Fall Notecards with Envelopes
• Apple Green Notecards
• Other: EK Success hole punches, patterned paper, cardstock, ribbon.

Lastly, Robyn Werlich created this gorgeous layout! She is so talented and always has me in awe over the designs she creates. Here is what Robyn had to say about her project: “At first I thought that this color scheme would be challenging, but once I pulled the right colors and sat down to create…I had so much fun! By keeping to the right proportions of each color, I think they made a great combination that really made a layout that pops! By adding stamping and some clear embossing, you can really make any color combo work to your style!”

Layout by Robyn Werlich
Supplies:

• Line & Flower Pattern
• Big Owl
• Basic Lowercase Letters
• Bold Caps Alphabet
• PL: Bird Greetings
• Assorted Crystal Gemstones
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Versamark
• Artprint Brown Memories Inkpad
• Other: Cardstock, 3d foam adhesive

For our colorful week, this week’s challenge is to create a project using at least one Hero Arts stamp and one of the fun color combinations we share this week. Upload your card to the Hero Arts Flickr Group by Sunday, December 14th at 11:59 pm PST and tag it with the code word “colorful.” And… we have a new category: Scrapbooking!  So enter those scrapbook pages, too…Here are the prizes:

• NEW! Scrapbook Page Winner: $50 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2008 catalog
• Fresh Face (someone who has not yet won a contest!): $50 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2008 catalog
• 1st place: $50 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2008 catalog
• 2nd place: $25 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2008 catalog
• 3rd place: $10 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2008 catalog

And here are this week’s color combinations…

Dark teal blue, spring green, maize yellow, orange, dark burgundy

Magenta, Paprika, Brown, Pea Green, Taupe

Lemon-lime, Canteloupe orange, Soft pink, Lilac, Tiffany Blue

Red-Orange, Pastel Yellow, Dark plum, Bright purple, Spearmint Green

Now…to start this week in a fantastic way, I wanted to do a fun and COLORFUL giveaway. Simply make a comment on today’s blog post - tell me what your favorite room is in your home, and what color combination it is. Simple as that! You have until Tuesday at 11:59 pm PST to post your comment. I will draw a name at random and post the winner on Wednesday. Guess what you have a chance to win?  Four packs of Hero Arts notecards, including three colorful multi-color packs and one pack of kraft notecards.  (Kraft notecards are great to use as a base for colorful combinations!)

Good luck on our Monday giveaway, as well as our weekly challenge. Like I said before, it is going to be one colorful week!

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