CTD#173 - Happy Valentine's Day

Hello and welcome to the first Color Throwdown Challenge of 2012!  The team is starting off this year with a fresh new look to our CTD weekly badge to give even more inspiration in using the challenge colors for each week.  Our hostess for this week is Bar who picked these dramatic colors to start us off for the year.

For my card using this week's colors I used the Papertrey Ink stamp sets Happy Day with the coordinating die and Background Basics Hounds Tooth and kept my card clean and simple.  I started out with a black card base, then added a basic grey panel and a real red panel on top that I had stamped along the bottom using the hounds tooth and embossed along the top using a polka dot embossing folder.  I stamped the Happy Day stamp in real red and stamped the Valentine's in black onto a small banner die and both pieces were added to a oval cut piece of black cardstock using foam tape.  To finish off my card I used the My Favorite Things rose die to create two roses and added pearl centers and added black leaves.

Be sure to check out what the other design team members have come up with for this week's Color Throwdown challenge!

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

Danielle Kennedy - Wild Dragonfly Designs

Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

Keva Brown - How Now Brown Kow

Kristin Eberline - Mindless Creativity

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations
Kerri Michaud - Cards by Kerri

Please give a warm welcome to our January Guest Designer
Stacy Morgan - Twinshappy

Hope you'll find time to play along!