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Saturday, February 11, 2012

A Tough One

The challenge at the Get Hippity with Ippity blog is to use the colors shown in this photo, called macaw hues. At first I thought OK no problem. Wrong! I first tried to make a card with patterned papers to match these colors, and it just looked all wrong. So I let it go for a few days, and today thought I could use those colors in the background with inks. So that's what I did! I used a few colors of distress inks, and a stampin up green. Looks pretty close to the colors in the photo. I went with the ippity set Totally Happy because of the bird on the fence. Not exactly a macaw, but it works! I wanted a bit more red, so I added the twine. If you'd like a challenge, then enter this one! Thanks for stopping by!!

8 comments:

Netty said...

Beautiful take on the challenge and love the stitching, x

Meggymay said...

Love your beautiful card, it looks a great match for the photo.
Yvonne x

Emily Keaton said...

Oh, WOW!! You really nailed the colors for this one, Pam! I love how you did your background and how you let it really shine. So beautiful!!!

Rhonda Miller said...

What a lovely card. I love how you did the background. Thanks for playing at GHWI.

Julia said...

Great card, love the background! Thanks for joining us at Get Hippity with Ippity. Hugs, Julia

Monika/Buzsy said...

Very pretty Pam. Great use of the lovely colors on the backgroung. Such a beautiful image!

~Tammy~ said...

Pam this is a real beauty and you are spot on with those colors! Beautiful!

Allison Jones said...

Oh, WOW!! You really nailed the colors for this one, Pam! I love how you did your background and how you let it really shine. So beautiful!!!