Sunday 24 June 2012

Color Dare #5--Create-Your-Own-Rainbow

The challenge at this week's Color My Heart Color Dare was to use all three primary 
and three secondary colours, on a single project. 
So, not quite the full rainbow of seven, but plenty to work with!

I was inspired by this card by Suzanne Dahlberg which I saw posted to the CAS-ual Fridays "Pretty in Pink" challenge: SEE LINK HERE.  I loved that idea of the nested squares, and the patchwork effect of them placed all together.


For my version, I used three pastel secondary colours,  Amethyst, Key lime, and Taffy, and mixed them with more saturated primaries, Pacifica, Tulip and Honey. The largest squares are cut at 1" then 3/4" then 1/2," a bit bigger than on the original card, which creates a different effect. I had fun deciding which colours to stack on which.  See if you can figure out the pattern!




I had planned to machine-stitch around the white border, to make it look like patchwork, but I have an actual quilting project on the go, so changing the thread and pressure foot on my sewing machine was too much work. I used the Close to My Heart ruler with guide holes to perfectly place the perforations to simulate stitching. The kraft paper card base is a 5" square.


The sentiment with the funky font is from the Paper Smooches set "Good Gab."  I used Versamark ink and white superfine embossing powder from Paper Wishes


You could have a lot of fun trying out different colour combinations for this design.  Maybe after that quilting project is finally finished!

9 comments:

  1. Love the funky vibe of this card!

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  2. This is so cool! I love the retro feel :) I'm so sorry...blogger keeps dropping the blogs I follow and yours was one of them (there are many sadly). I'm following you again...and I hope it sticks this time! I'm going to check out your CTMH site. I've never used their CS before :)

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  3. This is so fun, Caroline! I love those stacked squares and of course the sentiment looks fabulous in white on kraft!

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  4. Hi Caroline, LOVE all the funky squares :)
    Many thanks for dropping by for the TAWS bloghop :) The pearls I used are Kaisercraft - so not coloured by me, but they are a perfect match!

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  6. Caroline, very interesting how you chose the pastel secondary colors to go with the saturated primaries. It gives it a fun, whimsical feel! Very nice. Thanks for joining in at Color my heart!

    Sarah

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  7. Love the colour mix you chose. Funky retro yet soft??? Great card.

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