Hi friends! It’s time for a new TGIF Color Challenge. This week, our color combo includes Basic Gray, Pumpkin Pie, and Azure Afternoon. Hmm … I’m afraid it’s not a combo I would have ever selected on my own. I had to put A LOT of thought into this one!!! But then it occurred to me that birds are blue, flowers can be orange, and well hey, a birdhouse could be gray, right? I had an idea!
I bought the Country Birdhouse Bundle because it coordinates with the Country Flowers Bundle and entire Country Woods Suite Collection. The fonts in the two stamp sets, as well as a lot of the dies, mix and match. So I figured, why not? Now, I’m really glad I bought it because I think this card turned out darling!
I decided to use watercoloring for the background, bird, and flowers. That way, I could use lots of variations of the challenge colors. Azure Afternoon is one of my favorite blues and a washed down shade makes a gorgeous sky.
The Country Woods DSP has lots of Basic Gray prints, so it was perfect for the birdhouse. There’s even a cute little stamp to add detail to the scallop trim on the roof that I stamped with Basic Gray ink.
For the bird and flowers, I stamped the images with Stazon ink on Basic White Cardstock. Stazon is a must for watercoloring, because it won’t bleed when wet. I also added a little bit of Old Olive for the leaves, and then I pre-painted some Basic White Cardstock with both Old Olive and Azure Afternoon ink for die-cutting the leaves in the background. Some of those die-cuts are from the Country Flowers Dies. I think the blue tones helped to tie in the rest of the colors. Also, by pre-painting the paper, the die-cuts remain nice and crisp.
As I was looking through my embellishments, I found some retired Cork Rounds and thought one of them would be perfect for the bird perch!
Be sure to click over to the TGIF Challenges Blog and check out all the designers’ projects this week. Then, create one of your own and add it to our challenge at the bottom of that post. I’d love to see what you create with this color combination!!!
Have a wonderful and creative day!
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Stunning xxx
Thanks so much my friend!