Rocking Nectarine!

Hello my friends,

This week Jackie is continuing her '10 Pantone Fashion Colours for Spring 2013' challenge. This week the colour is nectarine. If you join in this challenge you could win a FREE custom blog header design from Jackie. If you don't want a new header but join in and win, you can pass this free design onto a friend! Details of this challenge can be found here.

Here is my card:

I wanted nectarine to be the dominant colour in my card. After hunting through my stash I came across this card stock and embossed it to give it a strong graphic texture. I just popped this up on some foam pads after stamping the sentiment over the circle background stamp. I did find this colour quite hard to work with but remembered I had been reading the other day some colour design tips. So with this in mind I went to the colour wheel and decided to go with a colour next and opposite the closest to nectarine on the wheel. Not sure if you should combine colours in this way but it did seem to look right to me! I have been reading up on some design tips over the last week and it is fascinating. I am hoping that you will soon see some of this knowledge being used in my crafting!!

I actually ended up making another nectarine card for one of my DT cards that I will post in the next few weeks and link up to Jackie's challenge. So although I found this colour hard to crack at first, I have ended up really quite liking it. So thank you Jackie for your  Pantone Spring Colour Challenge and I look forward to the next colour! 

I am also entering this into the 'dry embossing' challenge at Artistic Impressions

Have a good day and hope you get some crafty time x