Welcome to the first challenge of the year at As You See It! I hope you've all had a lovely Christmas and a restful New Year so are ready to head to the craft room refreshed and excited!
We're kicking off with a colour challenge from Heather C.
It's an interesting combination of colours but as soon as I saw it, I started thinking 'dinosaurs'. Odd, I know! Perhaps it's my little love affair with the new Darling Dinos bundle....
I started off by choosing one of the three cute dinosaurs, and some rocks, stamping them in Basic Gray and colouring them with Stampin' Blends. I used Smoky Slate, Peach Pie and Berry Burst. They were easily cut out with the bundle's dies.
I really like the way that you can easily insert different words to complete the sentiment and it's also easy to make the sentiment multi-coloured. So the start and end of the sentence were stamped in Basic Gray (one stamp) then I picked the punny 'T-rrific' and stamped it in Berry Burst.
The label is from Nested Essentials. The embossed background is Starstruck, one of the Sale-a-bration rewards you can earn with a qualifying purchase during January and February. Lovely, isn't it?
The finishing embellishment was a trio of 2024 In Color Resin dots in Peach Pie.
I so enjoyed colouring the dinosaur that I repeated him on the inside, added in a Berry Burst mat and a birthday greeting.
I used a Basic Gray card base because I was thinking that this would make a perfectly good masculine birthday.
The team and I would love to see what you do with Heather's colour mix. Visit the As You See It page to see what the rest of the team have done and to link up your entry. You can join in the challenge until Wednesday January 22, 11.59pm PST.
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Oh I love this Jan - the colours work perfectly on your dinosaur! I would never have thought of using them for a dinosaur - it's inspired!
ReplyDeleteThese dinos are beyond cute and I can't wait to play with mine - and how great do they look in these colours?! I love the build-a-sentiment idea too. And there's that embossing folder again ...
ReplyDeleteDinosaurs was the last thing on my mind when I came up with this colour palette, but this is oh so adorable and the colours work perfectly! Like I said before, I wish my grandkids were younger, but I might just have to get this set for myself!!
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