I made today’s card for this week’s Global Design Project color challenge. I used the beautiful Floral Statements stamp set to make a colorful thank you card. I stamped the large image in Coastal Cabana ink, then colored in the rest in Melon Mambo and Granny Apple Green, using a Blender Pen and the Stampin’ Write Markers in each color to (try to) create depth. Coloring isn’t my strong suit, but I feel pretty good about how this one turned out. What do you think?

Here’s the GDP177 color challenge:

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Here’s what I made:

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Here’s what I did:

Cut and scored with my Stampin’ Trimmer:

• Whisper White Thick card stock (CS) cut to4-1/4″ x 11″ , then scored in half at 5-1/2″

Stamped with the Floral Statements stamp set:

• main image in Coastal Cabana ink onto a piece of Whisper White CS

Die cut using the Rectangles Stitched Framelits:

• the stamped image
• a piece of Melon Mambo CS
• a piece of Granny Apple Green Designer Series Paper (DSP)

Colored using Blender Pens and Stampin’ Write Markers:

• flowers in Melon Mambo ink, first with the Blender Pen, then darker bits with the marker.
• leaves and stems in Granny Apple Green ink, the same way as the flowers

Assembled the card:

• burnished the fold in the card base with a Bone Folder
• DSP glued onto the front of the card base
• Melon Mambo CS adhered onto the DSP layer using Stampin’ Dimensionals (I save the long strips around the edges of the Dimensionals for large areas like this.)
• stamped image glued onto the Melon Mambo CS layer

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Here are today’s colors:

You can click on each one to see all the products that come in that color!

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Here’s what I used:

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