It's time for a new Color Challenge at Splitcoaststampers! Barbara is hosting this week and she chose the bold and bright combination of Melon Mambo, Tangerine Tango and Night of Navy, with a dessert option to use "bling". I have to admit I struggled with this color combo a bit because I wanted to do something different than water coloring flowers, and finally landed on doing something a bit more graphic, using the fun Dahlia Turnabout stamp to create a thank you card, and used gold ink, cord and sequins for dessert.
The stamp creates the flower by rotating a quarter turn every time you stamp (so using a stamp positioner is really essential IMHO), so each time I made a turn I inked up the stamp with a different color.
After the stamping was done, the panel was trimmed down and added to a slightly larger Orange Peel square panel, wrapped with Gold Cord and popped up on the Doll Pink card base, which measures 4.5" square. After stamping and die cutting the sentiment, it was adhered to the center of the flower with foam tape, then the sequins were adhered.
Thanks so much for looking! I hope you'll be able to join us for the Color Challenge this week!
Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Splitcoast Challenge Hostess Proud Fan Club Member
Registered: September 24, 2007 Location: WA Posts: 13984
Mon, Mar 12, 2018 @ 7:42 PM
Beautiful, Stef! You've encouraged me to try again with this stamp. I need to start over and re-mark the back and make a better jig, so that my petals all come out perfectly distributed around the circle, like yours are. I love the way you used this week's colors and this stamp. Love the bling and the sweet greeting, too!
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