This week has certainly flown by! Today we have our final color combo that I introduced you to on Monday. I hope you all will have the opportunity to try this color challenge and see which colors suit your fancy best. I really liked this final color combo… talk about an unusual assortment of colors. I have often enjoyed grouping purples and greens together… they go together quite naturally but the color combo takes a bit of a twist with the yellow and reddish-orange colors. I love a challenge though and had a lot of fun with this color palette. I hope you will too!

Tami Hartley’s card is so funky and fresh… such a breath of fresh spring air (which is much appreciated since there is 3 feet of snow on the ground here where I live)! I really like how Tami layered our art flowers on top of the same color stamped flowers, a really nice and subtle touch. Tami went for it with her colorful card and the bold dynamic bursts of purple and orange in the stamped flowers will surely bring a big smile to the face of the lucky recipient of this card.

Tami says, “I’ll admit, this combo scared me a little at first glance. Once I began playing I realized the flowers would allow me to incorporate all five colors pretty easily. I considered using a white background in place of the sunshine yellow but decided to just go all out with color and skip the neutrals entirely. The result is cheerful and a little unconventional.”

Card by Tami Hartley
Supplies:

• Clear Design Flower Blossom Borders
• Layering Circles
• DesignBlock Line & Flower Pattern
• Clear Design Thinking of You Messages
• Sparkle Clear Holiday Messages (line of dots)
• Summer Art Flowers
• VersaColor Fresh Green Ink Cube
• Lemon, Leaf & Violet Notecards
• Other: Distress Ink (Dusty Concord, Mustard Seed), colored pencils (Prismacolor), embossing border (Cuttlebug), circle punches, purple flocking powder

Check out this great layout made by Jennifer McGuire. She took a really bright color scheme and kept it mellow by injecting lots of kraft and pale yellow onto the page. Jennifer said, “When I am in doubt with my color choices, I just use lots of kraft paper with it.  It always seems to pull things together and soften the look.”  It turned out fabulously - a real show stopper! The pearl accents and pretty flowers and heart detailing keep the layout feminine and soft.  (Oh, and by the way, this is Laura and Leslie of Hero Arts… co-workers and friends.)

Layout by Jennifer McGuire
Supplies:

• Patterned Hearts (new for 2009!)
• DesignBlock Tree
• Colorbox Misty Meadow Chalk Ink Queue
• Small Variety Alphabet
• Pearls
• Card Buttons Spring
• Collage Flowers (new for 2009!)
• Other: Patterned paper (Making Memories kraft and Scenic Route yellow), string

Finally, I just had to give this combo a try. It was a bit of a stretch for me but I am pleased that I gave it a shot. I loved mixing the deep, rich purple shades with the brighter orange and soft yellow - not colors I would normally pull together. A touch of Kraft brown keeps things from getting too wild and crazy! I really like having “generic” cards like this on hand for “greeting card last minute emergencies”… we all have them, right?

Card by Leslie Lightfoot
Supplies:

• Clear Design: Memories
• Clear Design: Asian Elements
• Design Block: Happiness Grows
• Card Buttons
• Art flowers Neutral
• Memories White Inkpad

Wasn’t that a fun trip down colorful combo lane!?

Now, to make this “Fun Friday” complete I want to do one more giveaway for the week. I use the Colorbox Chalk Queue ink pads A LOT… I love how there is always the perfect color ink amongst my collection of them. We want you to enjoy them also, so today’s giveaway is for 3 of our very popular sets shown below (Pumpkin Patch, Primary Elements, Chocolates and Blueberries). To enter this giveaway, just add a comment to this post before Saturday, December 13th at 11:59pm PST. In your comment, tell me what color best describes you and why. See, fun and easy! Good luck to everyone.

Have a great Friday…

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