Friday, May 22, 2009

Back to Basics

This week we have a super bright, and super fun colour challenge for Lauren's My Time to Create DT.



When I looked at this dress I thought "Summer Fun"!! And I decided to make a fun card for a summer cocktail party. I interpreted these colours to be Purely Pomegranate, Groovy Guava, So Saffron, Cool Caribbean, Certainly Celery, and White.

This is the card I made with these fun, and bright colours.



The backgrounds were all made by stamping using versamark to achieve a tone on tone look. I think it's great to pull out some basic techniques like stamping background paper.

The stamps I used are from the Cocktail Party Set from A Chemistry with Paper.

The sentiment is embossed with clear embossing powder to make it stand out more, because on the Guava paper the versmark ink is not as distinctive.



These colours were so fun, that I am sure the entire DT has great projects in store for you. Just look at the samples below!




Lauren
Dawn
MacKenzie
Maria
Kendra
Kristen
Tracey
Pam
Jennifer
Odette
Lisa
Dana
Alicia

7 comments:

AKiteFlier said...

What a fun card Tamara. Love the cocktail party idea and you're right - it's fun to get back to basics sometimes! :-)

Kristin Eberline said...

Great use of the colors, Tamara! Love that stamp set and your flowers are a perfect addition :O)

Have a great weekend!

Kristin

Dawn Easton said...

Ha! Tamara....you and I thought the same colours...almost! I was thinking Cool Caribbean too but couldn't find any left...rofl

Love the primas you used...perfection!

Dana Gustafson said...

Cute party stamps and the flowers are the perfect 3-D element.

Unknown said...

Tamara - love the big blocks of color!! Great patterns you created too!! Awesome take on the challenge

Lauren (mytime) said...

WOW! Cool layering Tamara! love it all.

Mary said...

Cute card! Love the flowers!