Showing posts with label Color Trends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Color Trends. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

MOJO 221 and Embellish challenge

Now that Christmas is over, my friends and family have a lot of birthdays coming up. Yet we're still getting together with friends over the holiday, so I'm crafting between events. I always love MOJO Mondays and their pattern seemed to coordinate perfectly with Embellish Magazine's Color Trends Challenge.


The "Mixed Patterns" that I chose could go perfectly with the strips at the top of the MOJO Monday designs. I interpreted their colors to be Outdoor Denim, Olive, Honey, and Chocolate. The Chocolate and Denim colored patterns were from Basic Grey. The Olive pattern was one I stamped with Olive in on Olive CS using CTMH "Noted Backgrounds" houndstooth pattern. I hope I didn't get too carried away with too many patterns in my background papers. They all seemed to coordinate so well. They were neutral background papers with olive patterns. I also chose an open flower and leaf outline stamp set that I stamped on Close To My Heart's "Mayberry" patterned paper that was honey colored on one side and a light tint of olive on the back.




Since my focal point image was already a flower, I chose an olive button and honey colored baker's twine instead of the flower on the design. I had several types of Olive buttons, but the design that looked like stitching on this one seemed to go with the "Patterns" theme. I really enjoyed working with the elements from both challenges. They seemed to come together naturally.

Materials Used:
Paper - Basic Grey "Origins," "Boxer;" CTMH Olive, Outdoor Denim CS, Chocolate Textured CS (retired), "Mayberry" DP
Stamps - CTMH "Heartfelt Treasures" (flower, leaves), "Party Pennants" (sentiment), "Noted Backgrounds" (houndstooth plaid)
Ink - CTMH Chocolate, Olive, Outdoor Denim
Accessories - CTMH button "Green Collection," My Mind's Eye "Lime Twist" honey & white  twine