Color Challenge that was very challenging

I entered a Color Challenge that was very challenging today. The Challenge is over at The Kraft Journal blog. The plan was to also enter the same card in the challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs ODBDSLC232 using a lovely new scripture stamp I won from one of their challenges a few weeks ago. That all sounds simple enough and it was until I looked at the colors used for the challenge! We all have colors and styles that we like / love to work with and tend to stay within those comfort zones. Here are the colors - I am not at all happy working with: yuck, they remind me of the old Necco candy wafers. I couldn't stand those either. It is me, I know.. But this is why participating in challenges are so good, they force you to expand you self and work with colors and styles you normally wouldn't. I've taken a couple of color theory classes, one for embroiderers - no mixing of colors there and one for painters - all mixing. Card making is somewhere in-between these t