Color Hues #139 - YELLOW & ORANGE

Hello friends.  Time for a new challenge here at Color Hues, and as the hostess I chose the color pairing of  YELLOW & ORANGE.  I love Sunflowers and thought this would be a great color pairing for them, but there is so much else you can do with these two colors...any florals, Fall leaves, Halloween, etc.!

I did make a Sunflower card, but while I was waiting for an order to come in with a die I wanted to use for the sentiment, I started another card using a stencil from The Ton (Cosmos Border Stencils) that I've been having a lot of fun with lately.  Take a look...

Aren't the soft and darker yellows and oranges so pretty?!  I used a light kraft for the leaves and just love the way it turned out!

 I used SB's Hemstitch die for a border and placed a piece of matte gold cs behind so the border would really show up.  I used the same matte gold cs for my die cut sentiment from Kristina Werner and finished with a few sparkling gold gems from PFS.

And here's my Sunflower that I started first.  I used SU!'s Sunflower 3D embossing folder and the blackout technique where I inked up the debossed side of folder with Mango Melody (SU!) ink for my yellow and then after running it through my die cutting machine, I rubbed my Pumpkin Pie (SU!) ink pad over the raised background.  I absolutely LOVE the way this turned out...so much depth and dimension!!

I didn't want to take away from the print, so I finished the card simply by adding it to a white card base and adding my hello sentiment from Kristina Werner's Framed Script Hello Dies that I die cut once from the matte gold cs and twice from plain white so I could layer it enough to stand out.  I did add a few Sparkling Champagne Pearls from PFS to finish it off.

So there's my two ideas for the yellow and orange color pairing, and our talented DT and Special GD Priscilla have lots more ideas to inspire you with these two colors.  I hope you'll have as much fun as I did with these colors and can't wait to see what YOU come up with!  This challenge is open till Saturday, August 29th @ 9:00AM.

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