Color Hues 103

Our February 1st Color Hues Challenge is an exciting collaboration with the Inkspirational Challenge as well. They are joining us with Tracey’s great color combination of Pink and Red. I’ll let Carol, our creative Design Team member and the designer/behind-the-scenes organizer of Inkspirational Challenges fill you in on all the details.

Carol here. The design team gals and I at Inkspirational are delighted to participate in this first-time collaboration with Color Hues. Creating with Red and Pink – a combination open to such a wide range of hues, as well as occasions/events – makes us even more happy! Hopefully, you’ll find our team’s contributions as inspiring as those created by the team here.

This collaboration serves two key goals: to increase the exposure of both challenges to players who may/may not know about them and to offer YOU a chance to share your projects in two galleries. If you link up here, please be sure to hop over to Inkspirational to link with us there. We’re hoping for an outstanding number of entries over the course of the two week run of both challenges.

A wee bit about Inkspirational Challenge, in general:

We’re a two-week challenge that features a rotation of: Word Prompt, Designer’s Choice, Mood Board, Clean and Simple, Use Stencils and Seasonal. We’re pleased to have a strong group of participants who embrace our challenges with enthusiasm and creativity on a regular basis. We look forward to introducing them to Color Hues and hope they’ll add this engaging challenge to their crafting repertoires.

This was the perfect opportunity for me to create another valentine. When we were visiting Wisconsin in November, my granddaughter and I ended up having a conversation about gumball machines. I have no recollection of how that conversation came about, but when we returned for our Christmas celebration I brought along my NBUS Spellbiner die, Pop-up 3-D Vignette Bubble Gum Machine. I purchased it awhile ago during a clearance sale. Hannah and I never got around to actually making a card, so using it for her valentine was a no-brainer. 

I chose red metallic cardstock for the machine, and silver metallic for the trim. All the gum balls are cut from paper scraps in my stash. There’s a piece of acetate behind the black frame for the window, and although it doesn’t show, the bottom of the silver piece lifts up as if to let out the gumballs. I layered the sentiment, die cut from black, on silver. 

The gumball machine is larger than an A2 card base. This card is 6X41/2. I used a premade card from Bearly Arts as a guide for the measurements.  Spellbinder’s 3-D Cross My Heart Embossing Folder which is s 5.5X8.5 inches was the perfect background–needed (and appropriate) texture, but white on white so it didn’t distract from main event. I layered the gumball machine with dimensional tape before adding it to the card base.

The sentiment on the inside is also a NBUS product purchase after Valentine’s Day last year–Simon Say’s Love You Greetings. I added three glittery heart stickers.

Whether it’s valentines or another occasion, I hope you’ll find a reason to play along with the Design Team and  Trina Pham, our Guest Designer. Be sure to link your creations with the Inkspirational Challenge as well. It’s a fun two-fer! This card is off to Darnell’s NBUS as well!