I Reckon I'll Stamp: May 2024

Thursday, May 16, 2024

My 3 Favorite Colors

This month the blog hop challenge is to make a layout with your 3 favorite Stampin' Up colors. No easy task to decide! The challenge was chosen by a guest designer, Alison Carter.

I love so many of our beautiful colors! I finally decided to choose a color from each color family and one from all of the In Colors and then narrow that down to 3. Green has long been my favorite color so Granny Apple Green was one of my choices. And I was so excited about Pretty In Pink coming back that I chose that from the InColors. Misty Moonlight, Lost Lagoon and Pretty Peacock rounded out the 5 choices.

I kept thinking about this stripped paper in the Country Woods DSP though. I really wanted to use it but the only color in my stack that matched it was the Misty Moonlight. I could easily switch Pretty In Pink to Petal Pink and Lost Lagoon to Pool Party though.

I ended up only using a 2 1/4" strip of that amazing DSP across the bottom of my pages but I think it is a great touch to the layout. I used another sheet of a wood print that is Misty Moonlight and bordered the entire page with a 12X12 sheet of Misty Moonlight cardstock. Of course, I cut out the middle of the cardstock to use as photo mats, I couldn't waste that much paper!

I had recently ordered the Unbounded Love dies and stamp set. The dies are mostly labels but there are also these great leaves and flowers so I cut them out and scattered them across the bottom borders of the pages.

There is a great piece of DSP that has a Pool Party sanded off look to it. My page kept telling me it needed a bit of that paper on it. (Do your pages tell you things too?) After cutting the title I knew where the paper needed to be.

The pictures are of our oldest daughter when we lived in San Antonio, Texas. They sure bring back memories!

To continue on with the blog hop, click on the next name on the list. Margaret Workman has chosen a triadic color combination from the newest InColors.