Blogger Challenge: Week 69

This week's blogger challenge was a color challenge using Old Olive, Really Rust, and Riding Hood Red plus a neutral. I needed to make a thinking of you/sympathy card to send to a friend, so I thought I'd give this combination a try for that purpose.

I used the Floral Frenzy stamp set from Papertrey Ink for the main image and sentiment. I won this set in a random drawing during last month's PTI blog hop. I really liked the flower images in this set, but it had never made its way into my cart for purchase since I already have a lot of flower images. When I found out that I had won a free PTI set, I knew right away that this would be my choice.

I stamped the solid flower petals in Really Rust ink on a Very Vanilla panel, then stamped the outline image and flower center in Riding Hood Red ink. I added the stem and petals in Old Olive. The stamped image is matted on an Old Olive panel. I placed the image panel off center, with extra space on the left side of the panel so that I'd have room for a paper pierced column.

I stamped the sentiment in Riding Hood Red on a scrap of Very Vanilla cardstock and added a rust colored button, threaded with some twine, to the panel.

The cardfront looked a little stark and bare, so I used a long border image from Papertrey Ink's Shapes by Design set to stamp a circle border strip along the left side of the card. This continued the circle element theme from the image and sentiment panels and added a little interest to the cardfront. I kept the layout clean and simple, which helped me finish this card pretty quickly.

This was a fun color combination to play with. Links to the talented participants in this blogger challenge group can be found in the sidebar on the right.

Materials Used:
Floral Frenzy and Shapes by Design stamp sets (Papertrey Ink); Really Rust, Riding Hood Red, and Old Olive Classic inks, Really Rust, Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, and Very Vanilla cardstock, mat pack and paper piercing tool, glue dot, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); button, twine (Walmart)