Tricia's Stamping Creations: Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic Color Challenge Week 42

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic Color Challenge Week 42 - Gorgeous Grape

In case you were wondering what happened to Week 42 of the Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic Color Challenge, never fear, it is here at last. My husband had to have shoulder replacement surgery last Thursday and getting into a new routine with after surgery care has meant that my creative schedule was thrown into chaos. While my project did go live as part of the Insta Hop last Friday as scheduled, I wasn't able to get it posted to my blog until now. I hope that you will love what I came up with and that it was worth the wait.

Gorgeous Grape is such a beautiful purple and I wanted to create something out of the box that would showcase its versatility. So I decided to create a fun Halloween themed card design to get into the spirit of the season. For this spooky design, I chose to use the Playful Ghosts stamp set from the Online Exclusives and paired it with the sentiment and background image from the Potions & Spells stamp set. I just love the background pattern created using one of the Gorgeous Grape designs from the Regals 6"x 6" Designer Series Paper. To color in my cute little Vampire ghosty, I used Watercolor Pencils and a Blender Pen. Isn't he just adorable?

Products Used:

Playful Ghosts stamp set (item #164366)

Potions & Spells stamp set (item #164355)

Nested Essentials Dies (item #161597)

Regals 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (item #163774)

Gorgeous Grape Cardstock (item #146987)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Memento Tuxedo Black Pad (item #132708)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Basics Wow Embossing Powders (item #165679)

Watercolor Pencils Assortment 1 (item #161700)

Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2 (item #149014)

Blender Pens (item #102845)

Glossy Dots Assortment (item #158827)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Gorgeous Grape Cardstock'

Card Base - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Sentiment Label die cut with the Nested Essentials Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Ghost image stamped and fussy cut with Paper Snips

Gorgeous Grape Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

Halloween cards are so much fun to create and I love the variety of images available in the Playful Ghosts stamp set. The cute little Vampire ghost caught my eye and I thought he would be perfect for my card design. I chose to use Watercolor Pencils for something a little different and I love using this coloring medium as an alternative to Stampin' Blends Markers, which are my usual go-to favorite coloring tool. Using a Blender Pen helps smooth out the pencil lines created and gives me the ability to add light and dark shades of the Gorgeous Grape sections. For the background, I chose to use one of the Gorgeous Grape designs and I love the texture it adds to this card design. It makes me think of old fashioned wallpaper that you might find in a spooky old house. For the sentiment label, I used one of the dies from the Nested Essentials Dies and heat embossed the sentiment and background image with Basic White embossing powder to help make them pop. To finish off the card design, I added several Gorgeous Grape Glossy Dots for a touch of bling. I just love how this Halloween card turned out and I can't wait to try some of the other images to create different variations of this design.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to explore using Gorgeous Grape in your future creative projects. This beautiful purple is so versatile and so much fun to create with.

Please take the time to visit Week 42's Monochromatic Insta Hop to see all the amazing projects featuring Gorgeous Grape. There are so many inspiring ideas to choose from. Just click here to get started. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects.

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