Distress Ink Color Pop: Lucky Clover!
Hello! It’s Color Pop Day! I really look forward to this every month! I’m kind of sad that this is the next to last one! The last color has been announced and it’s Candied Apple. That makes 12 new beautiful colors in 2015. It’s been great fun to anticipate the new colors. Today I am featuring the gorgeous Lucky Clover! The color for November. Oh my. It’s awesome! It’s a beautiful emerald, bright, clean green. I like this one a LOT! The swatch above shows you where this new green fits into the Distress Ink color family. I put another swatch at the end of the post to show the rest of the greens for you. I find this really helpful when I’m trying to decide on colors. This color said “Starbucks” green to me! Ha…I can find a coffee reference in just about anything! I paired Lucky Clover with some rich brown hues to make a coffee themed card.
How totally adorable are these Mini Coffee Dies?? They are called Fresh Brewed. There is a hot cup and a cold cup in the set. I used the cold cup to make a pair of drinks for the focal point of my card.
I used the Lucky Clover Ink to make a watercolor panel as an accent piece on the front of the card. This really pops the color! I added tiny green banners for just a little bit of Clover throughout. The sentiment strip is from the Occasions Small Talk stickers. I cut the sentiment in half and put half of it in the top corner, and the other half in the bottom corner. This is one of my favorite sayings and I love that it was part of the stickers pack!
My background layer is super fun! I made it using the Sizzix Texture Fades “On the Go” embossing folder! Coffee cups! I embossed it onto a piece of watercolor paper and then edged it with Vintage Photo and Ground Espresso Ink. Ground Espresso was the natural choice right?!
One tip for getting your embossed images to stand out is to gently ink over them. After embossing, I took a sponge dauber and barely went over the coffee cups. This creates a depth and shadow for the embossed parts. I wanted it to look like coffee cup rings on my paper. To create this I put some Ground Espresso Ink onto my craft sheet and added water. Then I took a small juice glass, rolled it around in the ink, and put it on my paper. So fun! I used the new Tim Holtz Splatter Brush to add drops of ink also.
To make my cups, I die cut the shapes three times out of watercolor paper. Then I cut the different pieces apart with scissors. Then I added color to the pieces. The fun part was adding lots of Rock Candy Distress Glitter to the lid piece! When I assembled them, I used foam tape to pop up the center piece, and added a mirrored star.
I used some brown and white paper string to add a bow. I used the Deco Type Letters to spell out the word COFFEE on my card….and started putting the whole thing together.
Here is the other color swatch. This shows most of the greens in the Distress Ink product line. They are all beautiful! Tip of the day: CLICK HERE to get your downloadable color chart for all of your Distress Inks! All the new colors have been updated. Print it out on nice thick cardstock and stamp all your colors! I keep my chart on my desk at all times.
Okay, that’s it for today! Thank you for joining me for another episode of Tim Holtz Distress Ink Color Pop! Have a great day!
I adore coffee cards and yours is FABULOUS!! I love the Lucky Clover too, just received and am awaiting the final color for December. Can’t get enough of my Distress Inks!
This coffee card is gorgeously distressed. Beautifully made and great tutorial:)
I liked all the new colors, but I think I’m liking Twisted Citron the best….it really brightens things up. Great card. Love the Fresh Brewed stamps and dies by Tim Holtz and Stampers Anonymous.
Beautiful card! My favorite color is wilted violet.
What a great card/layout & who doesn’t love coffee right? Fav color…all of them! They are so rich & I’m collecting them all.
Haven’t seen a distress ink that I didn’t love and this is no exception. It works so beautifully with the expresso and other coffee colors— what a match!
Wanda this is just fabulous! Love the Lucky Clover color! The rock candy stickles makes those lids just pop. Genius!!
Thanks for that last shot at the end which shows all the similar distress colors together. It is helpful
I love anything green so I’m going with Lucky Clover! Wanda’s card is fabulous!
There are several new colors which are my favorites – Hickory Smoke, Wilted Violet, Twisted Citron (where do they come up with all these fabulous and quit accurate names?!) – but I do keep reacting for my Blue Lagoon and use that the most. LOVE your coffee card!
Love your card! I hadn’t seen that embossing folder before. It’s really cute. Great design for a fun card Wanda.
What fun little coffee cups. Love the distressing.
Love the card colors and design. I’m in love with the new color!
I think I’m loving Wilted Violet, but also like the first two, Cracked Pistachio and Abandoned Coral. I love this card. Michelle t
Wicky clover is beautiful! Gotta say that’s one of my favorites. Or seedless preserves :)
Love all the dimension on this awesome card!
Cracked Pistachio has been my favorite!
This green color is sooo Pretty!! Love your card!!
Wonderful techniques on your
card, so fun! I love the Wilted
Violet color.
Carla from Utah
this is a crisp, clean color.
Love it.
thanks.
Great card! I’m a green girl, and I love Lucky Clover!
I do love this card.
Wilted Violet was my favourite but there are others. Lucky Clover looks good too. x
WOW! This is awesome!! Love!
I think I like the Lucky Clover the best so far this month. I create a lot of scenery with leaves and trees.
I also am in LOVE with those mini coffee cups. Well done!
Thanks for sharing with us!
Such a striking colors!
I think I love abandoned coral most, but all of the new colors are amazing.
I rather like this color – Lucky Clover
Love that shade of bundled sage! But all of the are beautiful!
’tis, indeed, a gorgeous pop of color!
Such beautiful colors you have used
FABULOUS card! I love everything about it. Thanks for the inspiration.
I just discovered your Color Pop posts and I’m in love! Thank you for such a creative introduction to each new Distress color and the way they fit into the entire color palette.
Love your project & I just got the splatter brush, so can’t wait to use it!
It’s a very nice shade between green and blue.
And I’m gonna bookmark this card and make a coffee cup myself – I love coffee and I love this cup.
Love this. It inspires me to make something similar!!
Love this one & wilted violet
A beautiful card, Wanda. The details are so cool and love the color combo. Thank you.
I have not bought it yet, but my favorite of the new 12 DI’s is Candied Apple. I have needed a true Christmas red in this line, and I am hoping this will be it.
Wilted Violet hands down, love the dark and vibrant hue!
Wilted violet here as well!
This is such a fun card! Really awesome!
My favorite new distress ink color is Cracked Pistachio.
Happy New Year to all of you at Simon Says Stamps.
Fantastic Card! I love all things purple so the Wilted Violet is my absolute favorite! Thanks for sharing this amazing inspiration!
Thank you for the step by step “How to”! I love the card and the sentiment! TFS
I forgot to say that my favorite color is Abandoned Coral. TFS
I’ve so much enjoyed seeing all the new colors, this lucky clover is a great addition! I think Abandoned Coral is my favorite, I’m using it all over the place!!
Your Colour Comparison charts are some of my favourite posts, Wanda – Lucky Clover is a beautiful colour and your card simply ROCKS it!
Twisted Citron … don’t you just LOVE the names that Tim picks out for all of his color lines … makes me wish I had THAT job … how fun !!!
I really like the new Lucky Clover – but then I really like green!
I like how you used a glass to get the “spill rings”.
My favorite is Blueprint Sketch with Abandoned Coral a close second.
Amazing card – I love it!! I think my favorite is Abandoned Coral, although this Lucky Clover is a very close second! I would have to play around with it in person to know for sure.
Wow, I love how you used this color with those adorable coffee dies. The Rock Candy sparkle on the coffee cups makes it even more fabulous!