CTC #290 - CASE The Colours of Plaid Tidings DSP

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilise the projects within the current Stampin' Up! catalogue to inspire our own projects each week. We also invite you to join with us in the challenge each week by using this inspiration in your own creations and uploading a photo to our Facebook page.

This week we are taking our inspiration from the amazing colours in the Plaid Tidings DSP. Now there are an amazing 16, yep sixteen, colours in this DSP!  But don't let that deter you as you don't have to use them all!  In some ways that is a good thing because you have a lot to choose from and I'll help by giving you a tip on my process when using colours which might be of use. The colours are Crumb Cake, Cinnamon Cider, Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Blackberry Bliss, Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Mango Melody, Bumble Bee, Shaded Spruce, Pretty Peacock, Misty Moonlight, Seaside Spray, Basic Black and Whisper White.

The first thing I do is usually pull out the stamp pads of each of the colours, but with this many I decided to start using 2" x 3" pieces of cardstock.  I like this much better than the ink pads as you can get more of a sense of how much of each colour you want to use by overlapping them.  The first thing I do with them is arrange them in rainbow order.

Next I take the pieces and group them in twos and threes of colours I like the look of together, I usually leave the neutrals aside as they will generally go with any of the other combinations.  In this grouping I played with having the Pumpkin Pie and Melon Mambo with the Shaded Spruce but liked it better this way (and by now I had decided on the combo I liked the best. Just keep playing with these colours until you find a combo you like the best. I decided to go with Cinnamon Cider, Pretty Peacock and Crumb Cake.

If you still aren't sure, another technique for picking colours is to look a the individual sheets of DSP and pick the colours that are in that single sheet.

I have just recently added the Nothing Better Than Bundle to my collection and so have been itching to ink it up.  While I was thinking about using the cocktails image, decided that the chocolate would work better with my chosen colours. In the making of the card I also decided to add some "flavour" to some of my chocolates so added some Mango Melody and Rich Razzleberry to my colour combo, I do wonder what a Razzleberry would taste like!

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just choose some of the colours from the Plaid Tidings DSP and use them in your project, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

Time to hop on over and see what Peta has created this week.

Happy Stamping

Monique