Terrific Tuesday Challenge - I used Handsome Hunter

Here’s my card for Cindy’s Terrific Tuesday Challenge, which is to use a color you don’t often use or maybe that you don’t like.  (Please click to view larger).   I have never used Handsome Hunter before, ’cause I’m not drawn to this color at all, and since I don’t even have any of this color in ink, I had to go with card stock only.  I paired it with one of my favorite colors – River Rock, as well as white.   There’s some More Mustard and Pumpkin Pie on the bird, which brings in more color.  I will say that in the photo the color doesn’t look like Handsome Hunter, and there really isn’t very much of it to see anyway. 

I also decided to participate in the challenge I gave to my stamp club, which is to use a flower from the Pretties Kit on a project.  I hope this will inspire them to participate again!  (I glued the stem carefully with the Tombo Mono glue).

I wheeled the Stems & Silhouettes (which comes free when you order the Wonderful You stamp set until 4/30) in River Rock ink on the plain side of the printed paper from the Ginger Blossom collection and then tore each side for a little texture.  I used my Watercolor Wonder crayons and a blender pen to color the bird, cut it out and popped it up on Dimentionals.  A little bit of Basic Gray under his feet ground him.  I wish I had placed the brads a little closer to the matted image, but I didn’t want to re-do!  Card size is 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″.

I’m glad for the challenge to make something with a color I don’t care for as it stretched me a bit, which is always good.  Thanks, Cindy for asking me!  I hope you’ll try it, too!  Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: A Little Birdie Told Me!, One of a Kind; Paper: Handsome Hunter, Whisper White, River Rock cs, Ginger Blossom DS paper; Ink: Black Stazon, Basic Black, Basic Gray, River Rock; Accessories: Watercolor Wonder crayons (More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie & Chocolate Chip for his beak), blender pen, Pretties Kit, Antique Brass brads, White Taffeta ribbon, Stems & Silhouettes wheel, Stampin’ Dimentionals

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