Color Throwdown 184

I struggled greatly with this card, trying my best to incorporate all four colors for the color challenge blog. The verse comes from Dee's Bugaboo Boutique and is just perfect for our church card club to send out to our members next month. This card did cause me a bit of distress - I spent all morning fussing over it. I made about 5 different versions of a reverse mask, finally realizing that it looked the best with just one color: blue. After I masked the oval, I spritzed with glimmer mist, which made the black ink bleed.

The card was still too plain, so I added some border embossing. The first one I ran through my cuttlebug the whole way, which resulted in an unfortunate line on the white cardstock. The second border I only ran through partially, stopping before coming off the embossing folder, and it turned out much better. Finally, I added some stickle highlights in yellow, blue, and purple, to get the colors in that I needed for the challenge. The only color missing is green. I hope it qualifies. Either way, this is a keeper for our card club next month. It was also my first time trying the reverse masking technique.

Thanks for looking!

-Brenda