Keyword ssnotime29-There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload yourproject at Splitcoastand/or your Blog, anytime at all! You can play as many times as you like!!! The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!! Please link back here.
The challenge this week is to make a color blocked background for your card.I love the look of color blocking, always so neat and organized, but I often forget about doing it. And if you are not familiar with color blocking, what I mean is exactly what the words imply — to make blocks of color and piece them together to make a background — kind of like piecing together a quilt.
FOR THIS CHALLENGE I want you to:
- Use at least 3 different blocks for your background,and you may use as many as you wish, but at least 3 blocks. Use as many or few colors as you like.
- You may use anything you like — plain cardstock, cardstock you have stamped on, designer paper — whatever suits your fancy.
- You may mat your blocks with borders in between, or you may butt them up against each other. You may have free-floating blocks.
- Use your own imagination — just have fun!!!
- Remember, there is NO WRONG WAY to do this challenge. My challenges are not about rules, they are about creating and encouraging the creative process within each of us — we all interpret and see things differently - and that’s the beauty of it all!!!
As always, try to stick with our overall theme of *stamping simply*. Here are some samples:
Check out Julie Koerberssample.
Check out Dee Jacksons sample.
Check out Tammy Hershbergers sample.
And my super simple sampleis below.
Remember when you upload to use the keyword above, followed by a comma.Please come back here to post (as a comment) that youve played, and provide a linksowe can check out your card right away. You can find all cards uploaded for this challenge by clicking Gallery Submissions Here.
Some wanting to play said they have never uploaded before. If thats you and you need help uploading, just go to my Challenge No. 1 here.
Here’s an ultra simple color blocked sample. I used 3 colors to create my blocks and mounted them on a black mat — can’t get any simpler! I then tied on a ribbon and mounted a simple image on top with mounting tape — done!!! All the color gives this simple card a little life and zip!!! Fun technique!!! I used my Copics again to color this image — still practicing — I was hoping for more variation in color on the poppy, and though I used 3 different color markers — I didn’t get what I was after, but it still looks OK - and that’s what I am loving with these markers — they allow someone who has been seriously coloring challenged all her life tocolor a simple image with presentable results!!! Now THAT makes me happy!!! Still learning — and it’s so much fun!!!
If you’d like to use my measurements for your color blocks, here they are:
- Card: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
- Black Mat: 5 1/4 x 4
- Green: 5 1/8 x 1 3/8
- Yellow: 3 x 2 3/8
- Orange: 2 x 2 3/8
Supplies used:
- Stamps: Bloomin’ Beautiful
- Paper: Black, White, Green Galore, Summer Sun, Pumpkin Pie
- Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, Copics to Color from Ellen Hutson
- Accessories: Black Dotted Sheer Ribbon from Flourishes, Rectangle Nestabilities by Spellbindersavailable at Flourishes, Mounting Tape
Copic colors used:
- Flower: Y19, YR09, R14
- Leaves: YG03, YG17
- Flower Center: Black 100
- Shading: C1, 0
A NOTE ABOUT RIBBON AT FLOURISHES: I know many of you have been trying to find the black organdy ribbon at Flourishes and it hasn’t been there — please be assured they DO HAVE IT — theyhave just been super busy and didn’t get it on the site. It should be posted on the site sometime today, so please check back!!! They have the MOST GORGEOUS ribbons by May Arts — totally lucsious!!! My FAVORITES!!!
Thanks much for stopping by — hope you can find some time to play this weekend, or any time at all!!! Have a great weekend everyone!!!