Guest Designer for Color Hues – teal & orange

I’m delighted to have been invited along as guest designer for the new shades of teal and orange at Color Hues! For once, this card came together quite easily – definitely helped by the fact that I had a mop-up piece of card in my stash in exactly the colours I needed and that ClarityCrafts‘ ‘meadow grasses’ stamps were already out on my desk! For good measure, I’ve also picked up flowers and splatters from Just Add Ink.

So, I started with the mop-up piece from my stash – this is just a small square of Clarity’s stencil card that I’d used to pick up leftover ink from my crafting mat (I’ve got loads of these!) I popped a large circle mask onto it and brushed ‘salvaged patina’ Distress Oxide to create the sun.

Next was to stamp one of the ‘meadow grasses’ into place and then shade in the flower heads with a couple of orange Pergaliner pencils

I finished by adding one of the ‘occasions’ sentiments, running a black Sharpie around the card edges and then attaching it to a 5×5 card blank.

I love it when a card comes together this smoothly (that doesn’t happen very often in my world!) Happy days!

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43 thoughts on “Guest Designer for Color Hues – teal & orange”

  2. How fabulous to have you as GD, Deborah! Your beautiful card displays our colors so well – like a gorgeous sunset. I love the square shape and the bold sentiment too.

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  6. WOW! Talk about transforming your ‘mopped up’ piece into a beautiful stage for your flowers-and-sun meadows scene. Net result is an inspiring, lovely card that fits the challenge colours perfectly. Thrilled that you’re joining us!
    ~carol

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  10. I absolutely LOVE everything about this simple but oh so stunning card Deborah!! How cool that you had the perfect background to start with, and then adding that moon and the silhouette stamping totally completed this wonderful look! Love the thin black edging around the main panel too! Lovely, lovely card Deborah, and thanks so much for guesting with us here at Color Hues…you will definitely inspire our players!! Hugs. Marcia (DT)

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  11. That “mop up” piece is fabulous! It’s something I ought to do more often. And you were correct, it was the perfect background for this challenge. I love how you overlapped the sentiment on the meadow grass silhouette which is so beautiful! A lovely, lovely card! So nice to have you as our guest designer this time around!

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  14. What a great idea to run the sharpie around the edge, its just enough to hi light the inky panel. A great take on the colours, good job you had the presence of mind to mop up that excess ink! So happy your guesting with us this time at Color Hues. 🙂

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  16. What a fortuitous find in your stash and a brilliant design adding the mask and the Salvaged Patina inking! Lovely flower and frame to finish your card off so beautifully, Deborah! You definitely made this color combo shine! Thank you so much for being our Guest Designer!

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  19. Your design is so well thought out. I love how you created the sun. I’m definitely going to have to start “mopping up” more often. It’s great to have you here at Color Hues!

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  20. Hi Deborah! Finally home from Vacation and caught up a bit on life and have some time to come by and tell you once again how wonderful this card is. Your mopped-up pice of paper looks terrific and you were so creative with how you put this card together. So happy to have you in our line up at Color Hues. Have a Happy Birthday on Sunday too!

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