Color Hues Challenge #127 - PEACH & TEAL

Hello friends.  Time for a new challenge here at Color Hues and our sweet hostess Jules has a fun color pairing for us to play with...PEACH & TEAL.

I'm still in a bit of Christmas mode and had just received a new postage stencil from The Ton called Postage: Poinsettias Layering Stencil.  Here's what I came up with using the peach & teal colors...

I used light, medium & dark teal inks (Gina K) for the Poinsettias, and shades of peach and coral for the citrus slices.  Definitely NOT your traditional Christmas colors, but I have to say that I really like how this turned out.  I did use a bit of brown ink (neutral) for the pinecones.

 I did add glitter to the citrus slices and then backed the stenciled layer with a piece of Lakefront cs from Concord & 9th before adding both to a top folding white card base.  I finished with a sentiment banner embossed in gold from SSS's Tiny Words: Christmas.

I have a twofer for you today because I still had the stencils laying out and I wanted to see what it would look like with more traditional colors, and came up with this...

I was opting for more of a red Poinsettia, but since you start with a "light" color for the 1st stencil, it came out more pink looking.  The 2nd layer came out more pinkish too, so I just stayed with it and used a darker pink (Rose Red - SU!) for the 3rd stencil.  Added in my greens for the leaves and used the same peach & coral inks for the citrus slices.  I did add a few snowflakes in black from one of the WF postage stamp sets and used the WF Merry Christmas die for my sentiment.  Hard to see in the photo, but I die cut the sentiment twice...once from black and once from gold mirror cs and then offset the black over the gold.  I layered the stenciled layer with a piece of black cs and added to a Rose Red card base.  A few sparkly gold gems (PFS) were added to the centers of the citrus slices along with a bit of glitter.

Make sure you check out all the wonderful inspiration from my teammates and our Special GD Gundi right HERE and then play along with us.  Remember that you can use any hue of PEACH & TEAL and of course neutrals are always welcome too.  And most of all, just have FUN using these 2 colors! This challenge is open till Saturday, Feb. 28th @ 9:00AM.

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