I’m the hostess for the September 1st (where did summer go?) Color Hues Challenge, and I chose:

When I chose the colors, I had nothing particular in mind, but I had recently purchased a geometric design die from Concord & 9th, and thought it would be fun to use. I was right. I loved playing with this die, and came up with two cards. Here’s the card I posted on the Color Hues blog. It’s the more dramatic of the two.

The Pattern Play die comes with a background coverplate, and six smaller dies that cut out pieces to play with. You can see that I die cut two hues of orange and two hues of green, and started to play around with different placements. On this card the sentiment came from the Pinkfresh Studio “Basic Banners: Celebrate” which stamps and die cuts twelve sentiments with one go.

Here’s a cleaner version of the card on a white background. The background color makes such a difference.

The sentiment here is also from a one-go set by Altenew appropriately titled “One Go Birthday Greetings”. I think either card would work for guys or girls, teens or adults , and I’m quite sure I’ll have this out to play with other color combinations. It worked well with just two colors but using a bigger variety of colors would be fun too. 

With fall looming, orange and green might lead you to some autumn themed cards and florals would certainly work. I’m looking forward to seeing all of your creative cards in our gallery this round. As always, check out the inspiration from our Guest Designer and Design Team at the Color Hues Blog.