Color Throwdown 176-Let Your Dreams Take Flight

It’s time for another Color Throwdown! This week, Joan’s come up with a really pretty combination for us to try—Pool Party, Crumb Cake, Rose Red, and Chocolate Chip. I combined the colors with this week’s Our Craft Lounge Challenge to use chevrons to create a simple scene featuring a hot air balloon.

For my focal image, I colored the hot air balloon with a chevron pattern from the Love in the Air set using rosy red and chocolate markers, then carefully cut it out. It’s set on a dot embossed blue sky panel over a pair of die cut felt clouds.

To get a few more chevrons into the mix, I stamped a Crumb Cake panel with one of the chevron images from the Every Heart Beat set in matching ink to add a subtle pattern to the paper. The sky panel is matted on a Rose Red panel, then set on to the stamped Crumb Cake panel. I added the set’s “let your dreams take flight” sentiment on a Rose Red notch-edged strip that extends out from under the balloon. I stamped it in the same color as the paper so it doesn’t show up well in the photo, but it looks nice IRL.

To play along, just create a paper crafted project using these colors as a starting point and add a direct link to your finished project using the linky tool found at the end of this week's CTD post. As always, if you don’t have exact color matches, something close works just fine. And, if you upload your project to an online gallery, use the keyword CTD176. Before you get started, here’s some inspiration from the talented Color Throwdown team:

** Barbara ** Broni ** Danielle ** Joan ** Kerri **
** Keva ** Kristin ** Lynn ** Tammy ** Wanda **
January Guestie Stacy Morgan

Materials Used:
Love in the Air and Every Heart Beat stamp sets (Our Craft Lounge), white Copic blending cardstock (X-Press); Memento Tuxedo Black ink (Tsukineko); markers (Copic); Rose Red and Crumb Cake Classic inks, Rose Red and Crumb Cake cardstock (Stampin’ Up!); Aqua Mist cardstock, cloud die (Papertrey Ink); Swiss Dot embossing folder (Cuttlebug); white felt; foam tape