Orange Green and Gold Challenge

It's Thursday and that means it's time for a new Design Team

inspiration card for you

(and a chance to get a sneak peek at one of the newest releases

available later this month from Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps).

Color Challenge

Let's have fun with colors. Each week we will pick a color or colors for you to use on a card or other paper craft. Thrifty Stamper and her team will inspire you to use colors you may have not thought about using before.

Challenge Winner Guidelines

We encourage you to participate in all of our challenges, we would like to ask you to limit your submissions to 5 per challenge, per week. Each submission needs to be a new card (no cards that have been posted prior to the challenge date). Please do not submit the same card for every challenge, each submission should be a different card for each submission and each challenge.

This A2 card was made with a moss green base 5 1/2 x 4 1/4". The designer paper was cut to 4" x 5 1/4". The gold - 3 1/2" x 5" and the burnt orange 4 3/4" x 3 1/4". All but the base were taped with an ATG and the gold ribbon added randomly at the bottom of the panels. Then attach them all to the card base with foam tape for some added dimension.

The tiger lilies (one of the newest stamps sets being released this month) were stamped with ColorBox Black Archival and colored with Sharpie Markers

(per the great tutorial I found on Thrifty's Column which you can see here).

Tiger Lily 2014 Stamp Set available soon!!!

The flowers were fussy cut

And attached to the card with foam tape

I had planned on using a sentiment in the bottom corner, but found this gold finding in my stash and decided it needed a little more gold.

I liked the card like this, but decided to add some flower soft to the stamen of each flower,

(which you can also buy at Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps)

Color Challenge 21 5/1/14

This Challenge is for all types of paper crafts, including scrapbook pages. Each week we will have a color or colors that you have to incorporate in your project, and of course, you must use stamp(s) on the project.

This week's colors are Orange, Red and Brown. You may use any neutral colors.

The guidelines for the Color Challenge are...

1. Use the challenge colors as your main colors. You can use any shades or hues of the challenge colors.

2. You can add any neutral colors (browns, grays, black, white, cream, kraft etc) that you wish.

3. You can use an accent color in addition to the challenge colors, but it must be an accent only and not one of the main colors in your project.

4. You must use stamps on your project.

Remember your can create any type of project you want for this challenge but you must use stamp(s) on your project. They don't have to be Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co stamps but if you do use MFPaHC stamps, you will be entered twice for a chance to win our weekly stamp prize.

This Challenge is for all types of paper crafts, including scrapbook pages. Each week we will have a color or colors that you have to incorporate in your project, and of course, you must use stamp(s) on the project.

This week's colors are Orange, Green and Gold. You may use any neutral colors.

The guidelines for the Color Challenge are...

1. Use the challenge colors as your main colors. You can use any shades or hues of the challenge colors.

2. You can add any neutral colors (browns, grays, black, white, cream, kraft etc) that you wish.

3. You can use an accent color in addition to the challenge colors, but it must be an accent only and not one of the main colors in your project.

4. You must use stamps on your project.

Remember your can create any type of project you want for this challenge but you must use stamp(s) on your project. They don't have to be Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co stamps but if you do use MFPaHC stamps, you will be entered twice for a chance to win our weekly stamp prize.