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The Couture “Color Room” week 3

Color, Designer Projects 21 June 2010 | 2 Comments

Ready for the Couture Cardstock take on the newest The Color Room Palette?  This bright and sunny palette uses Couture colors Firelight, Crush, Lineal and New Leaf.  Here is what I did with the palette:

Upload your take on the palette for a chance to win a Couture Cardstock prize pack!  See you there!
~Alyssa~

The Couture “Color Room”

Color, Designer Projects 7 June 2010 | 3 Comments

This month, Couture Cardstock has teamed up with The Color Room, a website dedicated to inspiring crafters with a new color palette and sketch every week. Each week, Alyssa or myself will be creating a layout using coordinating Couture Cardstock colors for the palette offered. At the end of the month, we will be supplying [...]

Just Leave It To Us…

Challenges, Color, Designer Projects 30 April 2010 | 5 Comments

Speaking only for myself (Alyssa) and Heidi (of course!), we love doing really fun and different things.  We love stretching ourselves, trying things we haven’t tried before.  This applies to our paper crafting as well.  So today, we are bravely bringing you our latest experiment in the unusual: a layout we created together.  Yes, together.
I started this layout about [...]

Spring In White

Collections, Color, Designer Projects 15 April 2010 | 5 Comments

There’s nothing fresher than spring, or the color white. And when you combine them…wow! Even though I only used white cardstock for this card, the textures of it are a feast for the eyes, and to the touch. And doesn’t the colored image just pop?

The card base is Lineal, [...]

A Colorless Classic?

Collections, Color, Designer Projects 12 April 2010 | 6 Comments

Whenever anyone asks me what my favorite colors are, I reply with white and black. And almost always they respond by telling me that neither qualify as color. I suppose that technically they are correct, but for the sake of all things beautiful and this blog (and in hopes of not boring you to death [...]

Waterchild

Collections, Color, Designer Projects 11 March 2010 | 7 Comments

If you ask me what my favorite color is, more often than not my answer will be “water”. I just adore all the blues and greens that combine to make up the colors of a crystal clear ocean. My user name in several online galleries is “Waterchild12”. So it’s no surprise that the H2O monochromatic [...]

Serenity Monochromatic Family

Collections, Color 9 March 2010 | 5 Comments

Today I thought I would bring you a couple of different products to coordinate with the blues in our Serenity Monochromatic Family…

First, when I first saw these AMAZING stamps by Tim Holtz, I was drooling. They have officially moved to the top of my stampers wishlist, and how fun they would be to use with [...]

Burning Bright

Collections, Color, Designer Projects 2 March 2010 | 11 Comments

When I first opened the package of our Silk Road Monochromatic Family, I was struck by the intensity of the hues. To me they burned bright, a fire inspired collection of golden yellows.

(Cardstock: Silk Road Monochromatic Family “Curry Spice, Frankincense, Nomad, “; Seduction Monochromatic Family “Spitfire”; Vintage Christmas Collection “Tannebaum, Sugar Cookie”; Black Monochromatic Family [...]

Spring Valley Monochromatic Family

Collections, Color 16 February 2010 | 1 Comment

I am so excited to be showing off the Spring Valley Monochromatic Family today. This collection includes 9 lively hues of green, in all three of our paper weights and our textured and smooth finishes!

I also promised to bring you a bit of coordinating papers. I was thrilled to find these detailed, yet masculine, papers. [...]

A Blushing Duo…

Collections, Color 2 February 2010 | 3 Comments

With one of our gorgeous collections of cardstock, the “Seduction Monochromatic Family”, I couldn’t resist showing you one purchase I will be making to pair with it.  The rich, blushing hues of this family would be perfectly enhanced with one of Prima Marketing’s new lines. The “Pastiche Paper Collection” has all the delicious details that [...]