Color Throwdown 183-Thanks for Perking Me Up

It’s time for another Color Throwdown! This week, Wanda’s brought us a pretty color combination to try—Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, Kraft and Really Rust. I went heavy on the celery and blue, and a little lighter on the kraft and rust for my design.

I used Our Craft Lounge’s Fueled by Caffeine set for my card, along with some beautiful May Arts ribbon. The OCL design team is showing off this beautiful ribbon all week, so be sure to stop by the OCL blog for more details and info about how to wind some ribbon for yourself (I've included a few details at the end of this post, too). I picked one of the set’s patterned coffee pots for my focal image and colored it with Copic markers, using Baja Breeze-ish, Certainly Celery-ish, and Really Rust-ish colors, then cut out the colored image. A bunch of the markers I used came from the new set of 12 Copic colors that I had been on the fence about buying—now I’m glad I did! It’s set on a kraft die cut tag using foam tape. I used some pretty celery faux suede ribbon with a ruffled edge to make a button-embellished bow to attach to the top of the tag.

I arranged the tag and a circular celery panel on a piece of grid patterned paper. The panel is set on a kraft mat, then attached to the cardfront. I stamped the set’s “thanks for perking me up” sentiment on the circular panel next to the image.

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 CTD183. Before you get started, here’s some inspiration from the talented Color Throwdown team:

** Barbara ** Broni ** Danielle ** Joan ** Kerri **
** Kristin ** Lynn ** Tammy ** Wanda **
March Guestie Bev Gerard

And, don't forget about the fabulous blog candy from Our Craft Lounge. May Arts sent lots of ribbon to share, so OCL has 5 prize packages to give away this week. You have lots of ways to enter EVERY SINGLE DAY this week + one BONUS entry!

Daily leave 1 comment on each…

1. the OCL Blog (please leave contact info),
2. each designer’s blog playing along that day, and
3. our Facebook page.

BONUS ENTRY: If you “LIKE” OCL on Facebook, you’ll get a bonus entry (as long as you tell us you did it) ~ if you've already "liked" us, let us know that too!

We will pick 5 random comments this weekend and our winners will be announced next Tuesday, March 20th on the OCL Blog.

Materials Used:
Fueled by Caffeine stamp set (Our Craft Lounge); white cardstock (Taylored Expressions); Memento Tuxedo Black ink (Tsukineko); markers (Copic); Certainly Celery and Crumb Cake cardstock (Stampin’ Up!); Ducks in a Row designer paper (October Afternoon); circle punch (EK Success); Tags 1 die (Clear and Simple Stamps); celery ruffle edge faux suede ribbon (May Arts); twine (Papertrey Ink); button; foam tape