Color Throwdown Challenge #52

ETA: this is my 2nd post today, scroll down for my ABC Toys and Crafts project.

I'm super excited to be participating in my first ever Color Throwdown!! Not only is my good friend Tammy Hershberger on the DT for this fabulous challenge group, but this week Clear and Simple Stamps is sponsoring the challenge!!

The challenge this week is to create a project using: Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery and Chocolate Chip (or your closest match). Link your project to The Color Throwdown blog, and they will select a winner to receive Clear and Simple Stamp's newly released SUNSHINE stamp set and mini pack of ribbon!!

For my project, I needed to create a quick and easy card set for my Mom (she loves to have these on hand), so I pulled out some Hawaii Papaya DP from Stampin' Up (I think I cheated a little as it's mostly Old Olive, but there's definitely some lighter shades of Certainly Celery peeking through in there too!!), Plum Pudding CS (PTI) and textured Chocolate Chip CS along with some whisper white for accent (SU). I paired this paper combo with a few of my favorite CSS sentiments from the Live Life stamp set. I stamped the sentiments in Versafine Vintage Sepia and cut them into strips, mounting them on dimensionals and then mounting the entire paper panel on dimensions for even more depth. I added a cute little folded Plum Pudding ribbon scrap and Spring Moss button (PTI), rounded the bottom corners and they were done!! I literally had 3 cards done in less than 20 minutes!! Here they are (hint - click on the photo to view them larger):

So head on over to the Color Throwdown blog and play along. You can also check out what my fellow CSS DT members have done with these colors (their blogs are linked in my sidebar). Can't wait to see what you all do with these fun colors!!