the third annual a•muse•a•palooza started up this past week and i can't believe i've actually been around for all of them--the first year, i followed along closely on the designers' blogs, and last year, i played all of the challenges religiously! this year, i'm a little busier with the saltbox studio, but i can't not play!! so, i finally made time to make something with geeta's color challenge today. it's a quickie, but i really like how it came out. first, i pulled out all of the note cards and scraps i had in the challenge colors--chocolate kitchen, cabana blue, and purple passion--and fiddled with different combos. finally i decided to punch one of the circles from a cabana blue mod dot scrap with a 1 3/8 circle punch, which left a sliver of the darker shade around the edge. on that i stamped the sandals and sentiment in brown and colored the sandals with the cool shadow copic marker--a perfect match for cabana blue! i layered the circle on a purple passion scallop circle and mounted that over the cabana blue stitched ribbon on the chocolate kitchen note. to finish it off i added micro dot twinkle stickers to the sandals--they might be surf officially, but the darker shade looked best. i pair brown and blue together a lot, and i really love the pop that the purple adds! check out the AP08COLOR gallery at splitcoast to see all of the entries. and if you haven't played yet, you still have a tiny bit of time to enter for the drawing, so get stamping!!
:) lexi