Color Fusers--December Blog Hop!

Hello my crafty friends! Thank you so much for coming by to see what the Color Fusers Design Team is up to this month! We are creating projects with a very unique color combo for December!

What do you think? I bet Basic Black, Merry Merlot and Smoky Slate were NOT what you were thinking when you think “Holiday Colors”…but that doesn’t mean we are all creating holiday projects! Guess you will have to go through the Hop to see how many of us did!

As you can see I decided NOT to create a holiday card with this challenge. I could NOT resist the temptation to play with brand new stuff!

I decided to go with Smoky Slate as the base and added a second layer that I ran through the new Cane 3D embossing folder. I LOVE this new folder! I added a piece of Basic White as my top layer and decided to incorporate Merry Merlot in a water color wash behind where I planned the sentiment to be. I went over it twice so it would have a little bit more depth. Let the first layer dry and then run your water painter over it a second time. I finished the background off with a flick of my Merry Merlot marker.

I love how the sentiments in sentimental park can work together to create a variety of captions

I used two new bundles to create this card, they are both from the same suite—Regency Park. All of this will be available in the new upcoming Occasions catalogue in January. Its an absolutely gorgeous suite with a stamp/punch combo and stamp/die bundle. I used BOTH to create this card.

The flowers are from Petal Park bundle. I stamped them with Versamark ink on Basic Black card stock and then embossed them with Basic Black embossing powder. They do look quite awesome in person (hard to capture in a photo). The stamp and punch work together so that 3 flowers are created at once. Love that!

The sentiment is from the Sentimental Park stamp set and is cut with a coordinating die from the set. I did trim off some of the detail from this die as it had some little white flowers attached.

I really like these new dies as they cut out stamped images as well as some flower shapes. I cut some out in Smoky Slate to tie the background of the card into the design.

I also added some Smoky Slate bakers twine as well and some grey Classic Matte Dots.

I also distressed the edges of the Basic White layer to add a little extra texture to the card. I am so pleased with how this project turned out and I hope it has inspired you to consider these new bundles when they come out in the new year!

My crafty friend Melanie is next on the Color Fusers Blog Hop—make sure to check out what she has designed! I am so curious to see if any of my fellow teammates created a holiday card with this combo!