The Ton's June Challenge - Color Inspiration

Hi everyone.  Today we're welcoming the month of June with a color challenge over at
 The Ton's Challenge Blog: The Season.
You have the whole month of June to enter this challenge for a chance to WIN a $50 gift certificate from  
The Ton online store.  You can click on the link to head on over and check it out any time.  But first I'd like to show you a little card I made using these beautiful colors.

I used these ink colors from The Ton:
Deep Sapphire, Hot Tourmaline, Crystal Pewter, Soft Garnet and Cosmopolitan Pink.

For the palm leaves on the background I did some second generation stamping with Hot Tourmaline.  I inked up the first layer stamp from the Autumn Foliage stamp set and stamped off on a piece of scratch paper before I stamped it on my card front.  This is what created the lightest color of my leaves.  Then I stamped the second layer of the stamp directly on top using Hot Tourmaline.  This creates a great contrast using the same color.  I finished off the last layer using Deep Sapphire.  Stamped in these colors I think they leaves look more like flower petals.  I finished the background using Crystal Pewter and a tiny little dot stamp from the Honey Bears stamp set.

Stamps:  Darling Flamingos, Autumn Foliage, Marvelous Perfumes, Honey Bears (The Ton).
Inks:  Deep Sapphire, Hot Tourmaline, Crystal Pewter, Soft Garnet, Cosmopolitan Pink, Noir (The Ton), clear emboss (Versamark).
Paper:  white cardstock 110 lb (Neenah).
Accessories:  Modern Labels Coordinating Dies, Darling Flamingos Coordinating Dies, Silver Glitter Adhesive Paper (The Ton), Wink of Stella glitter pen, clear embossing powder (Ranger).


For the Darling Flamingos I did the same technique with second generation stamping  using Soft Garnet.  Then I topped it off with Cosmopolitan Pink for the third layer.  Using the Darling Flamingos Coordinating dies is so much easier than fussy cutting.

I stamped a sentiment  from the Marvelous Perfumes stamp set in Noir ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.
Using the stitched oval die from the Modern Labels Coordinating die set, I cut directly into the card front then popped it up on the front of the card base with some fun foam.  The beautiful sparkle on the bottom of the card is a strip cut from
 The Ton's Silver Glitter Adhesive Paper.  I love that stuff, it's so easy to adhere!

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I hope you'll make some time this month to join in this fun challenge with us over at The Ton Blog.  We love seeing all of your creations and it's so fun to see everyone's interpretation of each challenge.

Have a great day and Happy Stamping!!