Color Combo Challenge 198

Greetings! I'm sharing a card created for  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's June 2025 Color Combo Challenge 198. There are two options for this challenge. You can use Lime, Lemon, and Black or Terracotta, Turquoise and Black.

I opted to use the Lime, Lemon, and Black combination and the Carmen Elaine Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda.

Here's my card!

Products Used:
Carmen Elaine Rubber Stamp by Carmen's Veranda

Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Raven Black Textured Cardstock by Bazzill Basics

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Squeezed Lemonade and Twisted Citron Distress Inks by Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink

Verdant VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Copic Markers:

 Skin: BV000, BV0000, E50, E21, E11, E00, E0000, R00, R000

 Cheeks: R20

 Headdress and Dress: Y28, Y26, Y23, Y21,

 Dress Ruffles: YG25, YG17, YG13, YG05, YG03, YG01, Y19, Y18, Y17, Y15, Y13, Y04, Y02

 Headdress Lime: YG17, YG03

 Headdress Lemon: Y13, Y02, Y00

 Headdress Oranges: YR09, YR07, YR04

 Headdress Cherries: R37, R35

 Headdress/Earrings Grapes: BV17, BV13, BV08, BV04, R56, R35

 Sash: BV17, BV08

 Necklace and Bracelet Beads: BV04, B19, BG49, R37

Rectangle Die: Source Unknown

Sunburst 6x6 Stencil by The Crafter's Workshop

Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery

Repositionable Scotch Tape by 3M

Low-tack Tape

STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi for Ranger Ink

Glassboard by Glassboard Studio

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Create a top-folding A2 card from Raven Black Cardstock. Set aside.
2. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Carmen Elaine twice — once onto white cardstock and once onto repositionable sticker paper. 
3. Fussy-cut the sticker paper version of Carmen Elaine and set her aside. 
4. Color the image panel version of Carmen Elaine with Copic markers. 
5. Adhere the fussy-cut sticker version atop her counterpart on the image panel as a mask.
6. Position a long rectangle die over the image panel and secure it low-tack tape. 
7. Run the die through your machine. 
8. Carefully slide the die and the cardstock combination onto your surface, add more low-tack tape to secure the die in place, and flip the combo. 
9. Add low-tack tape to secure the die-cut to the back of the cardstock panel.
10. Flip the combination back to the front (with the masked image showing). 
11. Adhere repositionable Scotch Tape over the base of the die-cut combination. 
12. Sponge or brush Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink over the die onto the image panel die-cut. This will leave a white border around the die-cut image panel.
13. Place the Sunburst stencil over the top of the image panel die-cut, secure with magnets, and brush the same yellow Distress ink over the stencil onto the die-cut panel to add rays over and around Carmen Elaine's head.
14. Remove the repositionable Scotch Tape from the bottom of the die-cut. 
15. Brush or sponge Twisted Citron Distress ink over the bottom of Carmen Elaine's dress and the panel to ground her.
16. Remove the die-cut image panel from the die. 
17. Run a line of Diamond Stickles onto the white border of the die-cut. 
18. Set the die-cut aside and let the Stickles dry.
19. Resist temptation and let the Stickles dry some more.
20. While the Stickles Glitter Glue is drying, cut a piece of the music patterned paper to 4" x 5.5" to create the background.
21. Brush or sponge Verdant VersaFine Clair over the panel to change the color of the musical notation. 
22. Cut a strip of ticket patterned paper the width of the ticket x 5.5". 
23. Brush or sponge Verdant VersaFine Clair over the ticket strip to change the color and to edge the strip. 
24. Heat set both pieces of patterned paper. 
25. Adhere the ticket strip to the left side of the music notation paper. 
26. Trim the panel to 5.25" and edge it with Verdant VersaFine Clair Ink.
27. Adhere the background panel to the reserved black A2 card.
28. Adhere the Carmen Elaine image panel die-cut to finish the card.

I hope that you play along with June's Color Combo Challenge 198 for a chance to win Lost Cost Ca$h!

Thanks for visiting today!