Embracing Color and CAS...

Two cards today for two different color challenges.   One of my goals this year is to embrace the use of colors outside my comfort zone more.  I'm doing that with both these cards, especially the second card. 

The first card is for my favorite color challenge ColourQ.  This week Arielle chose a super fun and bright color combo of Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Taken with Teal, Melon Mambo and white.   I'm not a huge fan of Tangerine Tango (or any orange for that matter), but combined with the other colors I totally love it.   I went really CAS for the card which wasn't hard for me to do as CAS is my favorite style of cardmaking.  That's another goal for this year... to really embrace my inner CAS!  Two different Stampin Up! sets were used for the card:  Priceless & Whimsical Words.

The second card is for a new to me color challange:  Curtain Call.  I have been taking a look at the color combos from Curtain Call for several months now and finally decided to play along with this week's combo of Always Artichoke, Marina Mist, Pacific Point, Cherry Cobbler & white.   This combo was harder for me to put together in a good way, but I think I succeeded by keeping it CAS.  I followed the current sketch from Splitcoaststampers for the card, as well.  This card uses a Stampin Up! set called Syle Beautiful.  Love the damask type motifs in this set!

Thanks for taking a peek... hope you embrace color and whatever might be your style of cardmaking!

Supplies:  ColourQ:  PTI White & Simply Chartruse cs; SU! Taken w/Teal & Tangerine Tango cs; Ink:  Memento Tangelo & PTI True Black; Ribbon:  PTI Raspberry Fizz; PTI Scalloped Edge die; Stamps:  SU! Priceless & Whimsical Words
Curtain:  PTI White cs; SU! Always Artichoke & Marina Mist; Ink:  SU! Cherry Cobbler, VersaMark; Ribbon:  SU! Pacific Point; SU! Spiral punch; Fiskars corner rounder