Color Hues #64

Julie has chosen a color combination I have always loved for this round of the Color Hues Challenge: Orange and Slate Gray. I have multiple orange sweaters which look great with gray, and a couple of very lovely gray and orange print scarves. 

The cardstocks I chose for this were Simon Says Slate (perfect name!) and Gina K’s Tomato Soup, which is a darker hue of orange than the graphic above. One great thing about this two color challenge is the “hues” part of our name which allows for quite a bit of variation in color. 

I’m trying to focus on using different techniques for the Color Hues challenges. Two challenges ago, I had a floral that was stamped and colored with stencils, and the last challenge was a geometric hot foil plate colored with stencils. This time it’s another graphic design but with Waffle Flower’s Triple Line Diamond Panel which I die cut from the gray paper. It was layered on a top folded orange card. Next up was to choose a sentiment, and after much deliberation, I chose a sentiment from Spellbinders hot foil plate: Everyday Sentiments II which was foiled in silver and die cut with one of Simon Says Sentiment Labels.

Instead of adding embellishments. I die cut a portion of the panel again in metallic silver paper and inlaid some of the diamonds to coordinate with the silver foiled sentiment.

I hope you’ll jump over to the Color Hues blog and see what the rest of the Design Team and our Guest Designer have created, and join in the fun with your orange and gray cards!

When you read this, I’ll be about halfway through a tour of Portugal and Spain! Before the pandemic we took a tour with the same company to Morocco, and I was so tired at the end of the day, I had no energy for the internet so I’m anticipating a break from technology while we’re away. I know there won’t be any action here on the blog, but I may try to upload some photos to my Instagram account.