I hope you all will have as much fun this week creating with our “challenging” color combos as we are having making samples to share with you! We have 3 fresh new ideas for you today.

Here is today’s unique color scheme that our 3 designers were given and challenged to incorporate into their projects… a pretty blends of magenta, rusty oranges and pea green.  Although at first glance this color combination looks challenging, our artists had fun with it and I think you’ll agree that the results are beautiful!

Magenta, Paprika, Brown, Pea Green, Taupe

First up: Shari Carroll is supremely talented, she never ceases to amaze me with her creativity. She made something festive to celebrate the holidays that are upon us. Check out this ultra amazing holiday ornament she made using today’s color combo! Shari layered torn pieces of pattern papers with diamond glaze to the backside of the acrylic flower.   Then she stamped the Holly Flourish on the front with White StazOn and added Stickles to bling it up a bit.  To finish the ornament she added ribbons, paper flowers and buttons.

Project by Shari Carroll
Supplies:

• Holly Flourish
• White StazOn
• Other: Acrylic Flower by Clear Scraps, Pattern papers Bo Bunny, Diamond Glaze, Stickles, Prima flowers, book text, buttons and ribbon.

Next we have a layout by me. I love using magentas, browns and oranges together… I find I buy my daughter a lot of clothing in these hues so I found it easy to work with this color combination. I like the soft and feminine design this palette helped me create.

Layout by Leslie Lightfoot
Supplies:

• Pattern Joy
• Design Block: Reverse Leaf Pattern
• Art Flowers Neutral
• Colorbox Chalk Queue - Fall
• Colorbox Chalk Queue - Rose Petals
• Kraft Notecards
• Pink Notecards
• Other: Decorative chipboard, brads, Patterned paper (Basic Grey), 3D Foam Adhesive, Tonic border punch system, heart punch.

Last but certainly not least we have guest artist, Vicki Boutin. She made this most adorable card, inspired by today’s color palette. To create a little interest on her stamped card, she mixed unusual color combos with cardstock. This is a great way to use scraps and infuse pizzazz with color! Great job Vicki!

Here is a tip from Vicki: “Add little punches of color to a subtle color scheme, like I did with the purple stamped birds.”

Card by Vicki Boutin
Supplies:

• Flower and Leaf Branch
• Bird in Cage
• Sparkle Clear: Hello Birdie
• Other: Cardstock

Also, don’t forget to check out our give-away from yesterday… you have until today (Tuesday, December 9th at 11:59pm PST) to win a great and very colorful prize. All the details here… at the very bottom of Monday’s post.

See you tomorrow for a new and equally inspiring color combo!

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