distress color combo cards + a IG giveaway

Hi there crafty friends! Today I am sharing a little idea with you on how I come up with color combos for my cards and projects. If you know me, I love a pop of color, the brighter, the better. I love all of the colors of fall, and when Tim announced Crackling Campfire last week, my head began spinning with all kinds of color combos. I usually pull pages from magazines like Real Simple and Domino and stick them in a folder, but keeping them organized is not easy for me. As I began looking through my fall magazines and catalogs I was seeing this color in so many things! 

When I got my package of Crackling Campfire in the mail, I immediately tore the wrapper off and swiped in on a piece of paper and fell in love! I thought it would be fun to explore what other colors of Distress would look good with it, so I took a sheet of Distress Watercolor card stock and cut into 8 pieces (2 3/4 x 4 1/4). You could do this with any paper, but I stamp my Distress on Distress Watercolor card stock the most, so that’s what I went with. I picked a small stamp from the Stampers Anonymous Etcetera stamp set , and pulled some Oxide pads that I thought might look good together. And then I started stamping out some color ideas. Once I was done, I picked a few backgrounds and put them to the test. This really seemed to work out for me and I will definitely do it again in the future with new colors and maybe some older ones too! 

Here are the projects I made, and a closer look at each project below with it’s corresponding Color Combo Card. 

For the first card, I used the new Simon Says Stamp Detail Petal Cover die and stamped a greeting from the Just Because Word Mix 2. I added a Clustered Leaves die cut that I cut from vellum and adhered a few clear droplets to finish it. 

For the second card, I used a fall combo that I just love. This card uses the Simon Says Stamp Outline Leaves Background Cling. I stamped and embossed it in white then colored it in with DIstress Ink Reinkers and a waterbrush. I added a clean and simple CZ Design Thank You die to complete the card.

For my third card, I made a ‘guy card’ using a fun color combo. I stamped the Simon Says Stamp Plank Background onto a piece of DIstress Watercolor Cardstock using Black Versafine Ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I used DIstress reinkers to color in the planks. I completed the card with a CZ Design Dude die and a reverse Thinking of You sentiment strip.

And one final project I made for this week’s Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, a set of ATCs. Here I combined both Distress Inks and Oxides for a fun mixed media look, stamping with the Mini Media Marks stamps from Stampers Anonymous. 

I’ve also been working on some ideas for how I can store these cards for easy reference in the future, and I’ll be sure to share that here soon as well. I think I will do these combos for each new Distress Color release so be sure to subscribe if you’d like to see them. 

GIVEAWAY

One last thing- I was very generously gifted a set of Crackling Campfire Distress products, and I had already pre-ordered one and it arrived today…so I am giving one away over on my Instagram account. If you are not following me there, please follow me @cheiron, that is where I share projects most often! And be sure to enter to win there 🙂 

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