AAA Card Challenge 283: Colour Challenge (pick at least 3)

It's time for another challenge with the AAA Cards and we're introducing one of our new challenge formats for 2025 - a colour challenge. You are provided with FOUR colours and you need to pick at least THREE (neutrals allowed for skin and hair/fur and black and white as well- see graphic below).

I have to admit I thought of wintery scenes looking at the colours but it's mid-Summer in New Zealand so I went for an underwater scene and thought I'd make a "mess" with my Lindy's Magicals. I thought the 3 pots I chose represented the 3 darkest colours above.

My watercolour panel was a bit messy so I trimmed it to 2" and mounted onto a 2-1/4" panel of Soft Succulent (SU!). Once that was completed I Copic coloured in my Mermazing (MFT) mermaid with a Soft Succulent vibe. A very talented crafter called Kim Singdahlsen kindly offers on her blog a link to the closest Copic colour to EVERY Stampin' Up! colour. It's an amazing resource; Kim is also worth watching as she makes fab cards!! I actually have a link on the RHS of my blog to Kim's colour matches for easy reference but do check out her blog. Her colour suggestion for Soft Succulent was BG72/93, so these are the colours I coloured in my mermaid with:

Hair: E57/23/21
Skin: BV04 E04/00
Cheeks: R00/30 
Mermaid tail/bikini: BG72/93

Star shell: BG18
I've stippled the mermaid tail with BG93 and my white Gelli roll pen and added some Prisma glitter (LF) to her star shell.

Well I had a blast making a messy water scene and I need to let the magic of working with Magicals happen more often, the photos don't reflect how sparkly and "magical" it all is either but trust me it is. Thanks for popping in and I do hope you can join us this fortnight. Make time to check out all the fab inspiration from the rest of the AAA Cards Design Team there are so many cool ideas for working with this cool palate of colours.

✿Karen✿