Today is the best Tuesday!  Why?  Because I am on my way to the Stampin’ Up! Convention!  Yeah – so much fun, so many friends, so many ideas….I can’t wait to get there.  I’m leaving all the boys behind and getting a full 6 days of girl time!

I have been super busy and away from home a lot – so my blog posts have been a little sparse – hopefully I’ll have time to set some up to post while I am away (like this one) or actually post from convention (if we have internet access).  So on to today’s color challenge from Utah Diva’s….

This weeks challenge is some bright summer colors.  Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, and Riding Hood Red.   At first I thought what am I going to do with all those colors – they are pretty together but I just don’t know where to go with them.  They made me thing of a rainbow – which always makes me think of Roy G. Biv.  Do you know what that is?  I can’t even remember how long ago I learned that – probably elementary school somewhere.  But it is something I won’t ever forget.  Roy G. Biv – that is the colors of the rainbow – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet.  And this weeks color challenge is real close to including all the colors of the rainbow.

I was caught up with the fact that there were five colors and some how wanted to have 5 different things like a rainbow of color – I thought letters and was thinking of 5 letter words.  And then I remembered the single stamp in the Summer Mini catalog – Hello Blossoms – that’s a five letter word – Hello.  So I pulled out the set and did some quick playing around with it.

Ultimately I covered up the Hello and went with the 5 blossoms and this is the result –

I ended up with a cute little 3×3 card!  I stamped the Hello Blossom stamp in Pear Pizzazz ink on a piece of Whisper White card stock.  The “grass” at the bottom is where I dragged the edge of the ink pad over the card stock – it gave the look of little hills of grass.  To add the color i decided to use the Sweet Buttons Embosslit and I cut one set of buttons in each color.  I put them in order of the rainbow.  Then I decided to add the little crinkled flowers to the center and pop in a tiny pearl.  Perfect result I think.  The buttons in the back give each flower a different personality.  The greeting is from a new Hostess stamp set called Perfect Words.   I chose the “you’re the BEST” – because you guys are the best!  The new Hostess program is going to be awesome.  My first hostess got TWO half-price items!! And she was able to get all the hostess sets that she wanted – instead of being limited to quantities and levels.

I hope you have a great week and if I don’t post this week – don’t despair, I’ll be back with posts after convention including all my convention swaps – although I hope to have those scheduled while I’m away.    Be back soon!

Click on this link to go to the  Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog.   There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

• Card stock:  Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Riding Hood Red, Peach Parfait, Tempting Turquoise
  
• Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Riding Hood red
  
• Stamp sets: Hello Blossoms, Perfect Word
  
• Accessories:  Big Shot, Sweet Buttons Embosslit, Bitty Punch Pack, Basic Pearls.
  

To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.