Color Me Monday: Winter... In Bloom?

You probably think of Juniper and Tulip as great colors to use for cheery spring projects (and they are!). But they also make for fun and cheery WINTER projects, too, with just a little help and inspiration from great stamps! Today, I’ve added Cocoa and Desert Sand to these two blooming, traditionally-springy colors for warm winter results.

First, take a peek at the December calendar page—the last one of the year, and what a way to end it! The snowflake designs are stamped in Versamark and heat embossed in clear for a great resist pattern. Then, using a mix of pearl paint and Juniper reinker misted from a spritz bottle right onto Colonial White cardstock, you’ll get a magical, shimmery result. Beautiful! Where did we get the spritz bottle? You can choose: an emptied Spritz Cleaner bottle works great, and so, too, does our brand-new Spray Pen—it’s coming out in our new Spring/Summer 2011 Idea Book, so you don’t have long to wait!

My “Season’s Greetings” and “Let it Snow” cards are also festive and merry in this springy-come-wintry combo, finished off perfectly with more of those Sparkles and Opaques. (I tell you, for $2.95 each, these are about my favorite embellishment ever—they go anywhere and dress up everything they touch!) Brighten up your December with a color combo that blooms no matter the season!