Hey friends! This is Mindy with you! Happy World Cardmaking Day! What a great time to celebrate this passion (or obsession!) of ours. 

I tend to stick to traditional colors when it comes to my projects, but I wanted to challenge myself a little for today’s card. I’m going to use non-traditional colors for my fall card project, although the more I researched on Pinterest for my color board, the more I’m wondering if it’s becoming traditional. 

It’s fun to think outside of the box, stretch our creative muscles and play around with colors. I tend to gravitate towards browns, oranges, and yellows for my Fall colors. I found a color board on Pinterest that inspired me and the great thing is I didn’t follow it exactly. I took inspiration, used my color swatches of cardstock to match up what I could and came up with this palette. 

Supplies | Gina K. Designs: Foliage Fillers Die, Ivory Cardstock, Liquid Glue, Foam Squares; Cardstock: Sea Glass, Peacock, Stardust, White , Black, Gold Glitter; Concord & 9th: Cardstock, Chevron Quilt Top Die, Friendly Florals; Pinkfresh Studio: Clear Drops – Iridescent

I die-cut the Foliage Fillers from Stardust, Sea Glass and Peacock cardstock. I already planned to create a wreath from this but it needed to be jazzed up a little so I brought in some gold glitter cardstock. 

Creating the wreath without a guide was kind of tricky for me. That led me to creating a panel from white cardstock with the Chevron Quilt Top die and then die cutting a circle from the center. That was my guide to arranging the foliage.

Each piece is held down with some liquid glue, but only at the base of the die cut so it has a little “fluff” to it. I popped up the panel with foam squares and added to a cardstock base created from Ivory cardstock. It’s a very elegant look! 

A pop of black is just what this card called for with the Friendly Florals sentiment word die. I couldn’t help but add embellishments, but didn’t want them to be distracting which brought me to the Iridescent Clear Drops.

I quite surprised myself with this project. Who knew I had it in me? I hope this color challenge has inspired you to create something with some non-traditional colors!

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What a fresh fall colour scheme that Mindy has challenged us with! We hope you’re inspired to use it, and if you do, you could win this:

Our friends at Gina K. Designs and Concord & 9th are each offering a $25 gift certificate so that you can shop the supplies that Mindy used to create her card, or anything else you have had your eye on! Here’s how you can submit to win:

Challenge Guidelines:

  1. Create a card inspired by Mindy’s colour scheme above;
  2. Submit an image of your creation by Wednesday, October 19th at midnight Eastern in the Challenge #2 album in our SCT Facebook Group. (Note: This is a private group, so please answer the questions when requesting to join!) To find the album, click the “Media” tab, then click the “Albums” tab, select the appropriate album for your submission, then the blue “add photos or videos” on the right. See the images below for assistance!

 

Winners will be announced here on the blog and in our Facebook Group on Saturday, October 22nd. Go and get colourful, friends, and join Mindy as she shares this card and her colour scheme off in her Facebook Live!

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Come back here at 1pm Eastern to get your next challenge from our friend Michael Boyd!