Challenge: two color palettes with a similar theme

This month, Altenew and Seven Hills have issued color palette challenges.

​The Altenew Challenge, posted on February 1, 2017, which must use an Altenew product as a focal point, uses a photograph and a four color palette brighten the dark and grey outside typical of February:

The Seven Hills challenge, posted on February 2, 2017, which must use a product sold in their shop,  provided three photos and five or six shades in a two-color palette for each:

I started with the Altenew challenge and used three of the colors in the palette (fuschia, green and white) and an Altenew stamp/die set as the focal point. I stamped images from the Lotus stamp set on colored paper using Altenew Crisp Inks and die cut the with coordinating die set. I also cut a border strip from an Authentique 6x6 pad of paper which matched the color palette. I layered the images and the border strip on a top-folding note card and added a sentiment in Crisp Ink and water ripples with a Distress Marker:

Products used in making this card were:

• Stamps (and dies): Altenew Lotus stamp and die (1055) bundle; sentiment stamp from an unknown company
• Inks: Altenew Crisp Inks “Ruby Red” and “Evergreen”; Distress Marker  “Scattered Straw”
• Papers: Paper Studio value Pack Notecards “white”, Authentique “Collection: Infused” 6x6 pad (INF009); scrap pink and green card
• Adhesives: Ranger Collage Glue Stick; Viva Las Vegas “Miracle Tape”

I like the looks of this card a lot and decided to CASE my own card using the Seven Hills yellow/grey palette in the challenge. Like the Altenew card, I stamped the images using Altenew Crisp Inks on colored card and die cut them. I cut another coordinating border from an Authentique 6x6 paper pad, layered the images and border on the top-folding note card and added a sentiment stamped in Crisp Ink and water ripples with a Distress Marker:

Products used in making this card were: 

• Stamps (and dies): Altenew "Lotus" stamp and die (1055) bundle*; sentiment stamp Hero Arts* (F3262)
• Inks: Altenew Crisp Inks* “Evening Grey” and “Paper Bag” ; Distress Marker  “Pumice Stone”
• Papers: Paper Studio value Pack Notecards “white”, Authentique “Classique: Beauty” 6x6 pad (BEA016); scrap yellow and gray card
• Adhesives: Ranger Collage Glue Stick

* Altenew and Hero Arts are both sold in the Seven Hills shop, although it may be that th Hero Arts stamp is "out of print"...
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The difference: the color palette and the arrangement of the flowers… I like this pair of cards enough that I think I will make a few more, using different color palettes (perhaps the other two proposed by Seven Hills) and different sentiments.