Color Hues #131 - CORAL & GREEN

Hello friends.  Time for another challenge here at Color Hues and our sweet hostess Sheri has chosen the color pairing of CORAL & GREEN for us to play with for the next two weeks.

 I had quite a bit of fun with these colors using a stamp & stencil set from PFS (Floral Focus) and even ended up with 2 cards using the leftover pieces from card 1...a win, win!!  Here's the 1st one...

  I embossed the image with Altenew's Rose Gold embossing powder on white cs and then stenciled using SU!'s Flirty Famingo and Mossy Meadow for the flowers and leaves.  Next I used PFS's Simply Diamonds Coverplate die to cut my stenciled piece. Setting all the pieces aside, I used a piece of Mossy Meadow cs and embossed the Floral Focus stamp again with the rose gold powder and then cut again with the same Simply Diamonds coverplate die.  

I replaced all the diamond pieces into the Mossy Meadow frame (like a jigsaw puzzle) and it all lined up beautifully, but I thought it needed some dimension, so I cut from white cs the Simply Diamonds die 3 more times and added all the diamond pieces to the backs of the stenciled pieces.  It looks really cool in real life with all that dimension, but I just couldn't seem to capture it on my photos!  (Not real happy with the way the framing looks black instead of green and the flowers look really light pink rather than the deeper coral...I'm blaming it on the lack of sunshine here in Michigan!!)  I used MB's Just a Note Posh Script die with gold mirror cs for my sentiment and that shows up much better in real life too.

 I used all the leftover pieces from the first card to make this 2nd one, so it's basically just the opposite of the 1st one.  I did not add all the dimension with this one though and just inlaid each piece flat.

My sentiment on this 2nd card is also from MB (Happy Birthday Chic Script), and I did put another layer behind it for a bit of dimension.

And here they both are together.  They are very busy cards, but I actually like both of them a lot!  Just wish you could see the real colors better...the green is more green and the coral is more coral!

The DT and our Special GD Kelly have a lot more inspiration for you that you can find right HERE, so check it out and play along with us.  This challenge is open till Tuesday, April 28th @ 9:00AM.

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