Christmas Card Challenges #44: Color Inspiration

Don’t forget to celebrate World Card Making Day with The Ton Stamps by hopping along with the design team or entering your own card in our first challenge!  You have a few more days to join the fun!

Good afternoon and welcome back to another Christmas Card Challenge!  This week we have a color inspiration challenge for you…lots of cool tones in this palette!

I realized that I haven’t made a shaker card in almost a week (THE HORROR! Ha!) so here’s what I came up with!

To start, I first inked up the sentiment stamp from Mama Elephant with versamark and then added the various pigment inks to create an ombre effect.  When I’m using several inks I like to add the layer of versamark first…it seems to help with blending and also gives a nice even coverage.  To ink the stamp I just used the edge of the ink pad and if any ink transferred from pad to pad I just stamped the pad off on a piece of scrap paper until it was clean!  I heat-embossed the sentiment with clear embossing powder and then die-cut a frame for my shaker from silver glitter paper.  I filled the shaker with tons of seed beads, bugle beads, and sequins from The Ton Stamps in colors matching my sentiment!  (This is when it really helps to have 400+ beads and sequins!) 😉

I hope you’ll play along this week…we’d love for you to play along with the color challenge but really, the only rule is that you create a holiday card!

To get your creative juice flowing, don’t forget to visit the rest of the design team!

• Carol
• Donna
• Gail
• Heather
• JoAnn
• Margo
• Marsha
• Monica
• Shirley Anne