Color Hues 55

Happy New Year! And what could be a better way to start than with a new Color Hues Challenge? Nancy has chosen the colors for this round of the Color Hues Challenge. It’s an elegant combination, and I decided I wanted to gold emboss a floral design and do some watercoloring. I don’t think I used watercolors for any of my Christmas cards this year. Here are her colors:

In just a few months I will need a wedding card for a dear friend so I chose the Pinkfresh Studio Charming Floral Border to watercolor.

I used the Altenew 36 pan watercolors (one hue of pink watered down for the lighter color) and two colors of gold from the Gansai Tambi Starry Colors metallic watercolor set.

It’s easy to see the pretty metallic sheen in these photos. It’s the first time I’ve ever tried partial die cutting, but it worked perfectly.  The sentiment was die cut from gold metallic paper with one of Papertrey Ink’s Scripted dies. The inside sentiment reads “on your wedding day.” (The watercolor paper by Altenew and the Ivory (Simon Says) card base appear to match much better in real life than in the photograph.)

You’ll be able to find much more inspiration on the Color Hues blog by the Design Team and our Guest Designer. Although we were sad to say good-bye to Kristie Goulet in December, we’re excited to have Jules Peddicord, Marci Hill, and Stef Perry join our Design Team. You’ll be thrilled by all their creations!