Spring-Themed Color Palette: March 2020 Inspiration Challenge

Hi friends, Norine here with you again. It's time for another Inspiration Challenge and it's a particularly spring-y color scheme, perfect for Easter or garden themed cards!

I love succulent plants. Their wide variety of soothing colors, their interesting shapes, and especially their ability to resist my attempts to kill them. That's their best feature, truth be told.

As I got playing with these beautiful shades of lavender, blue and green, I couldn't get stopped and at one point had ALL of the elements on the cards above piled on ONE card!  Just to see what looked good together!  You can imagine the visual riot that was!  So I decided two cards were necessary.  Then I'd see which looked the best and go with that one.  But I couldn't choose.  And anyone who knows me well knows my motto in life is “anything worth doing is worth OVERdoing”, so here we go again!

FIRST CARD

For the first card, I stamped a simple wreath from the Weekend Doodles stamp set and heat embossed with silver embossing powder.  I painted the leaves with the new Artists' Watercolor 24 Pan Set in a color gradation from blue to green to lavender and back to blue again.

I also stamped a variety of sprigs with the Vase Fillers stamp set in Lime, Fresh Leaf, Hydrangea and Persian Blue crisp dye inks, then cut them out with the coordinating dies.

Then, I splattered a watercolor paper card panel with the same colors of paint that I used on the wreath and stamped a sentiment from the Dainty Swiss Dots stamp set and heat embossed with silver embossing powder.  Next, I trimmed all four sides and matted with a coordinating shade of blue cardstock and adhered all the layers of stamped and painted die-cut pieces, finishing up with a big bow of silver thread.

SECOND CARD

For my second card, I stamped a partial pattern on watercolor paper with the Pattern Play Diamond Stamp Set and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  Then I painted in the diamond shapes with the same paint colors as I used on the leaves of the wreath above.

Next, I stamped some flowers and leaf images from the Flower Garden Stamp Set and painted only the leaves in a haphazard, artsy fashion before cutting them out.  I don't have the coordinating dies so I fussy cut the leaves and flowers.

Then, I added more paint splatters to the background card panel, stamped a sentiment from the Weekend Doodles Stamp Set with Obsidian Black ink,  then trimmed the card panel to be matted with more of the same blue cardstock and adhered all the layers to a card base.

I hope you were also inspired with the photo and color combo as I was and I can't wait to see what you make!

~SUPPLY LIST~

• Altenew products should be the focus, but other companies’ products can be used.
• Make sure to use our challenge image above in your blog post.
• Include a link back to the ALTENEW INSPIRATION CHALLENGE POST.
• When uploading your project, make sure you link your entry post, not your entire blog.
• You may enter as many times as you wish!
• Challenge ends on March 31st, 2020, at 11:55 PM EST.

After the challenge ends, FOUR WINNERS will be selected. Each will receive a $30 gift certificate to spend at www.altenew.com.

Winners will be announced on 04/10/2020.

WAIT – there’s more!

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Good luck and happy crafting!