Hello crafty friends! As I've been blogging all month, 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've 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 card #5 for the month! Sadly, it's the last one! I have so enjoyed being part of the fun this month! THANK YOU CTD!
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 blue, red, green and yellow! 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 CTD408, and please use #CTD408 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!
I just posted a coffee card....but here I went and made another one! Pretty much crafting and coffee are my life! LOL. Today I used the cute stamp set called Oh Frappe! I made a bunch of cute cold frappe cups and lined 'em all up. That's my idea of happiness! These bright vivid colors lend themselves to such a cheerful card. I used Kuretake Zig Clean Color Brush Markers to color the images. I stamped onto watercolor paper too.
Here is the fun inspiration image!
So many ideas for this one!
Some of the cups were mounted directly onto the card, and others were popped up with foam squares. I chose a sweet and simple black and white gingham for my background.
But first coffee....always!
I used a Clear Wink of Stella pen to add shimmer to the coffee cut lids to make them shiny! It's hard to photograph the shimmer!
Hope you have a happy week! THANK YOU so much to the lovely and talented Color Throwdown Crew for inviting me to be their guest this month! XOXO
AWESOME COLOR THROWDOWN DESIGNERS!
Wanda Guess (August Guest Designer!)
Simple yet so striking!! Love the staggered row of cups! Thanks again for sharing your talents with us at CTD this month! A real honor for US!
Posted by: Wanda Cullen | 09/04/2016 at 10:19 AM
Wanda it's been so fun having you as a guest designer over at the Color Throwdown! Thank you!
Your colorful card is fantastic! I love the rainbow of cups against the black & white gingham.
Posted by: Lynn Put | 09/04/2016 at 09:01 AM
Love, love, love this card Wanda!!!
Posted by: Celeste Goff | 08/31/2016 at 06:12 PM
Love this color combo and the super fun theme!!
Posted by: Natalie H | 08/31/2016 at 04:38 PM
You have been the most awesome guest designer for the throwdown!!! Love this card Wanda. Coffee spells happy. September is going to fly by as did August. Thanks so much for the inspiration coffee style. Happy Labor Day!
Posted by: Anne Sturgeon | 08/31/2016 at 12:37 PM
Fun cheery card to Brighten my morning.
Posted by: Julie | 08/31/2016 at 08:38 AM
Who makes the gingham paper you always use? It's fabulous and I'd love to find some.
Posted by: Donna | 08/31/2016 at 08:33 AM
Super cute and Happy card!
Posted by: Holly Saveur | 08/31/2016 at 06:48 AM
so fantastic! always is. love those pretty coffee cups
Posted by: Lisa Henke | 08/31/2016 at 05:29 AM
How refreshing!! Love the colors.
Posted by: Brenda Lee | 08/31/2016 at 03:45 AM