Hello and welcome back to our week of Fall colors with the Web Artists! Let’s meet today’s colors…

The teal adds a little spark to this Fall palette, providing interest to an otherwise traditional scheme. Because monitors display colors differently — and because I like to name colors — let’s call these: Rust, Light Kraft, Teal, and Milk Chocolate.

I jumped at the chance to play with this gorgeous color combo and designed a card for autumn that uses tone-on-tone variations of the colors in the palette. I stamped the leaf, the brocade pattern, and the word “Autumn” with darker shades of ink for subtle contrast and just a bit more diversity.

Supplies:

• Three Designer Leaves
• Clear Design: Season of Giving (word “Autumn”)
• Clear Design: Happy Thanksgiving (leaf flourish)
• Clings: Antique Brocade
• Kraft Notecards
• Gold Metallic Decor
• Sand Dune and Chocolates & Blueberries Chalk Ink Queues
• Memories White Ink
• Weathered Wood Distress Ink
• Other: vellum, seam binding ribbon (Martha Stewart Crafts), brown colored pencil, machine stitching

Next, take a look at how Kelly Rasmussen took these colors and used them for a birthday card — love it! Kelly says, “Fall color combinations don’t have to be just for Thanksgiving. Use them for other special occasions like birthdays and anniversaries. This birthday card can easily be adapted to any season, just by switching up the color combo.”

Supplies:

• Clings: Floral Garden
• Clear Design: Birthday Sayings
• Raindrop Background
• Fall Mixed Notecards
• Long Notecards Light Kraft
• Card Buttons Neutral
• Memories White Ink
• VersaMark
• White Embossing Powder
• Other: white, teal and brown cardstock, scallop border punch, corner rounder, white gel pen, brown twine, pop dots

A tip from Kelly: “To create the tiny dots on the bottom half of the card, just stamp the Raindrop Background image with VersaMark or another ink that will barely show up. Then use a white gel pen to lightly trace the dots.”

Now it’s time for a giveaway! Kids get back-to-school clothes — I say we get back-to-Fall stamps! Today we’re giving away the Clear Design: Season of Giving stamp set plus a package of our fabulous new Felt Leaves.

For a chance to win, simply leave a comment on this post by Wednesday at 11:59pm PST. We’ll announce the winner on Thursday.

Once again, here are the four palettes for the entire week so that you can work ahead if you wish. (Click for a larger view.)

Be sure to check back tomorrow when we’ll have another color combo, a video, and a new contest announcement too!

Dreaming of sweaters, crunchy leaves, football, and soup…

Filed under: fallcolors

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 4:30 am and is filed under Take Two Tuesdays. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.