Color Fusers Blog Hop — September 2022

Welcome to the Color Fusers Blog Hop for September 2022. This month, we have a color combination of Fresh Freesia, Blackberry Bliss, and Pale Papaya. Wow, aren’t these great colors?!! I never would have thought of this combination on my own, but it’s so pretty!

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I just ordered the Bottled Happiness Bundle, which includes the Bottled Happiness Stamp Set and Vintage Bottle Punch, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to use it. On my card, I paired the bundle with the Vintage Bottle Shaker Domes and Effervescent Elements to create a fun 3D shaker card.

When I first saw this color challenge, I searched my stash for designer series papers in the three challenge colors. I found Pretty Prints DSP in Blackberry Bliss and Splendid Day DSP in Fresh Freesia. Believe it or not, my card includes a foil sheet colored Fresh Freesia. No matter how I held my camera and set up my shot, the reflection photographed copper, but in real life, it’s Fresh Freesia.

I had a lot of fun creating this card, and it actually came together really fast. I started by randomly watercoloring two half sheets of Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper, one with Pale Papaya ink and the other with Blackberry Bliss and Fresh Freesia. I really tried to get lots of darks and lights on both sheets. Then, I stamped and embossed the leaves in white using the Splendid Thoughts Stamp Set right on top of the watercolored paper. This technique is super fast and yields a totally different result from stamping first and then watercoloring.

In the background, I lightly watercolored the background with Fresh Freesia ink using a paper towel to mop up and dab. I was going for a totally messy look. In fact, when I flicked Blackberry Bliss splatter all over the background, I accidentally smeared the ink. But rather than throwing it away, I just flowed with it and smeared the rest on purpose.

I stamped the bottle with Blackberry Bliss ink on Basic White and layered it under the punched watercolor paper.

Then, in the background, I used two sheets of DSP and even dry embossed the Pretty Prints layer with the Fern 3D Embossing Folder. I totally LOVE how that turned out.

Finally, I borrowed a Beautiful Shapes Die to cut out the sentiment, added some 2021-2023 In Color Opal Rounds colored Pale Papaya, and frayed some silver Simply Elegant Trim to loop under the sentiment.

Be sure to continue on through the rest of the Color Fusers Blog Hop for even more inspiration using the 2022 In Colors. Next up is my super talented friend Brenda Nelson!

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Color Fusers Blog Hop Designers:

1. Melissa Kerman
2. Sue Vine
3. Tami Hewlett — You Are Here
4. Brenda Nelson
5. Bonnie O’Neill
6. Melanie Hockin
7. Janneke Dijkstra de Jong

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