Color Throwdown #405 - August Guest Designer!

Hello crafty friends! Hope you're having a great week! As I blogged last week, I am the lucky guest designer on the awesome Color Throwdown Blog for the month of August! Woot! That means that each week, on Wednesday at midnight EST, I'll be posting a new project inspired by a specific color palette. I LOOOOOVE Color Throwdown and love the fun and fabulous designers on that team. I'm so happy to get to stamp with them all month. Today is my second posting!

The way Color Throwdown works is that each week a new inspiration image and color palette is posted. Then, we all play along! It is really fun to see what everyone else makes, and I definitely encourage you to play along!

The colors for this week are Green, Yellow and Aqua! You can use generic colors (so any brand, type - whatever you have will work) and you can feel free to add in other neutrals (cream/black/etc) to make your creation pop! Anyone can play! Just add your beautiful project to the links list on the Color Throwdown Blog! And, if you upload your creation to a public gallery, please use the keyword CTD405, and please use #CTD405 and #colorthrowdown on social media so they can find your gorgeous creations! When linking up your creation using the linky tool below, please be sure to add a link to your specific post, not a general link to your blog. All of the "rules" are on the CTD Blog, and you can always check there to be sure!

So here is my card, inspired by Green, Yellow and Aqua! This was the perfect color palette for me this week because my PTI order just arrived with these gorgeous tropical stamps and dies! So I made a happy birthday tropical creation! (plus I just love yellow!!)

Here is the color inspiration image:

I started with a white card base and then layered a piece of gorgeous striped paper onto it. OMG I love this color!!! (Sorry I digressed!) Then I cut a white layer as my focal point and used a corner rounder on all four corners. Next up was to have tons of fun mixing and matching inks and stamps to make the pineapple, leaves and flowers. (All stamps and dies are from Papertrey Ink). I stamped the sentiment in crisp black as a nice contrast to the bright colors.

This color palette is soooooo fresh and pretty! I feel like I need a mai tai right now! I can almost smell the Hawaiian breeze if I close my eyes! I layered all the pieces onto the card using foam squares.

After my card was all assembled, I went back with some Diamond Stickles and randomly added glitter to the leaves and petals. It's really hard to photograph glitter!!

Hope you have a happy week! I'll be back next week with another Color Throwdown Project! I hope you will enter your card on the Color Throwdown Blog!! I will be back with another blog post in a few hours for a fun celebration for another favorite company. Please pop back by! XOXO

AWESOME COLOR THROWDOWN DESIGNERS!

Wanda Guess (August Guest Designer!)

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This is so special!! Perfect stamps paired with perfect colors, splashed with quite a bit of genius! You rocked it big time this week, girlfriend!!

Posted by: Broni | 08/15/2016 at 06:11 PM

Wanda, this card just SCREAMS fun and summertime! I love those glorious flowers and your fabulous layout! I am OVER the moon that you are with us this month!! How lucky are we???

Posted by: Jodi Collins | 08/15/2016 at 05:14 PM

Love the bright colors, beautiful card.

Posted by: Chrissie | 08/12/2016 at 11:15 AM

Your card is fabulous! I just bought this set too so I love seeing more cute ideas using it! :)

Posted by: Mendi Yoshikawa | 08/10/2016 at 08:14 PM

Make that two mai tai's! Gorgeous colors Wanda. I am sure there will be lots of fun creations made with this color throw down. Love it. I'm with you yellow is so cool.

Posted by: Anne Sturgeon | 08/10/2016 at 08:35 AM

That is such a bright and colorful card. It just shouted "HAPPY".
Love it!!!!

Posted by: Fonda Jo | 08/10/2016 at 08:11 AM