Power Poppy Neutrals

This week over at the Power Poppy blog Tosha is filling in for Julie as host of the Hues to Use challenge and she has a very thought provoking color palette for us...grayscale.

I have to admit, color challenges scare me to begin with, which is one of the reasons I always push myself to play along with the Hues to Use (well, that and Marcy has so many beautiful images that I want to color!) but when I saw what Tosha wanted us to do I was scared and intrigued! I immediately thought about doing some of the new mushroom images in grayscale but I'm not even going to lie, I tried it and hated it! Those images are now sitting in my circular file with a stream of naughty words still hanging in the air of my craft room. I walked away for a few days and decided to step back to the table this afternoon and grabbed the clear set Dynamic Duos: Glads and Gerberas for my next try.

I used my C copics to color in the gerberas, going with C0-C5. As I finished coloring I liked how it looked but I couldn't figure out a layout so I headed over to Pinterest to look at the Power Poppy board and their sketches. I found one that I thought would go good with this image and ran with it!

The patterned paper is some retired SU Neutrals DSP that I have in my stash and it was perfect for this challenge. I don't think the photo really does it justice, I really like how the card came out!

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Simple Solitude in Neutral

Time got away from me and I missed the last Jingle Belles challenge, so I wanted to make sure I got this challenge done right away. Lauren and Stef have a challenge this week that comes from guest designer Noelle McAdams......make a Christmas card using ONLY neutrals.

I used the Country Landscape Die from Memory Box, I really like this little scene. I did my usual for the falling snow, using my CB Swiss Dots folder. The snowy background and the landscape are both done in Confetti White card stock, and any marks you see on the paper are part of the Confetti paper. I like to use that for winter scenes because it reminds me of bigger flakes falling among smaller ones.

The main image panel is sponged along the edges with Crumb Cake and I used dimensionals to pop the main panel up on a Crumb Cake card base. The sentiment is the corner is also done with Crumb Cake. Its a nice shade of brown/tan that isn't too dark but yet still gives the light card stock some definition.

I didn't add much to the card, I kept it nice and clean because it the little scene reminds me of a nice quiet snow day, cozied up in the house watching TV, reading a book or working on Christmas cards :)

Make sure you head over to the Jingle Belles blog to check out the challenge!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: More Merry Messages

Paper: Crumb Cake, Confetti White

Ink: Crumb Cake

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Memory Box Country Landscape Die, CB Swiss Dots EF, Dazzling Details