Sunday, June 3, 2012

ABNH Color Challenge, Take Two

I had another idea for the A Blog Named Hero color challenge. Here's my card, then I'll explain:

This idea was triggered when I read MelStampz's latest post about how to make custom-colored paper using her overlays and GIMP (the free software that I use because I'm too cheap to buy Photoshop and too lazy to learn it.) Mel shows us how to take the color cues from color challenges, like this one from ABNH:

and use the colors to fill the overlays. I took her A2 chevron overlay and filled the areas with the blue and green colors from the ABNH image. Then I printed it out, trimmed it, and mounted it on a Kraft base. I added the hearts -- Kraft and Poppy (for a spot of color), and the HA sentiment is white-embossed on Kraft. White embossed sentiments seem to be all the rage these days, and since it works on this card, who am I to argue? :)

Thanks for stopping by!

11 comments:

Allison said...

Love the chevrons! And a perfect layout!

lostinpaper said...

Total fabness! Love those chevrons!

Scrapcollectr said...

First of all, thank you Feedblitz for automatically sending me your latest post (I'm lovin' this subscription thing!) Second, genius, just genius how you combined all these elements. Very cool. *smile*

Scrapcollectr said...

First of all, thank you Feedblitz for automatically sending me your latest post (I'm lovin' this subscription thing!) Second, genius, just genius how you combined all these elements. Very cool. *smile*

Scrapcollectr said...

First of all, thank you Feedblitz for automatically sending me your latest post (I'm lovin' this subscription thing!) Second, genius, just genius how you combined all these elements. Very cool. *smile*

Jackie said...

Love that! The chevrons are great and I am going to take another look at her post about that.

Michelle Hanway said...

love it! oh if only i had a printer, i'd make paper too...

Melissa Shea said...

Love your card! I'm going to check out that GIMP thingy ASAP! I'm seriously color challenged. Looks good on the screen, can't make it work in my hands. Thanks for playing with us at A Blog Named Hero (again) :)

Michelle said...

Mel's tutorial was amazing!! I have PSE and I think I am going to download GIMP too. I LOVE what you did here!!! Thanks for playing with us on A Blog Named Hero!

Tina said...

So sweet. Love the chevrons and sweet heart. Thanks for joining us at A Blog Named Hero.

Linda said...

CO-OL!!! What a great idea.

Thank you so much for playing along with our challenge!!

Good Luck!
Linda

A Blog Named Hero