Guesting at Color Throwdown!

Hey everyone!  I'm super excited to announce that I will be guest designing with one of my favorite challenges, Color Throwdown, for the entire month of October!  YAY!   The hostess for this week's challenge is Broni and she is kicking off the month with a fun color combo of purple, lavender, orange or green that would be perfect for Halloween cards, but I decided to go with a more fall idea.  There is a stamp and die set that Reverse Confetti recently released that features a pumpkin decorated with beautiful florals.  I don't own that set (yet, lol!) so I decided to create my own version using the large pumpkin image from the A Jillian Vance Design Autumn Pumpkin stamp set and flowers from the Dear Daisy stamp set.  I stamped the pumpkin on watercolor paper and then heat embossed it in gold.   I did the same for the flower images.  I used my Gansai Tambi watercolors to color the pumpkin orange and then the flowers in purple and lavender.  My lavender is more toward the blue end, but that is okay as you don't have to match the colors in the inspiration photo perfectly.   Since the only green I had was in the leaves I added some to the ground that I created around my pumpkin.  When the panel was dry I die cut it with the largest AJVD Stitched Dot rectangle.  I trimmed out the flowers and leaves that I needed and then arranged them on the pumpkin.  I stamped the sentiment (from the AJVD Hello Fall set) in VersaFine Vintage Sepia and then adhered the card to a kraft cardstock base.    The current Paper Players challenge is a fall themed tic-tac-toe and my card fits perfectly in the fall, pumpkin, die cut row so I will be posting it there, as well.

Here is all the information regarding playing along with this week's Color Throwdown challenge:

Once you’ve finished your card or other paper-crafted project, add a direct link to your creation using the Inlinkz tool at the bottom of the Color Throwdown post. And, don’t forget to use the keyword CTD563 if you upload your project to an online gallery, or hashtag on social media with #ctd563 and/or #colorthrowdown.  

Challenge guidelines are in the right sidebar on the Color Throwdown Challenge Blog in case you have any questions.

The rest of the team...

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud

 Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations

 Jodi Collins- Stamping a Latte

Lynn Putt- The Queens Scene 

Lisa Henke- My Little Creative Escape

Amy Rysavy - Prairie Paper & Ink

 Amy Rohl - Ink About Me

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope that you will take the time to play along with Color Throwdown!