Color Cue Challenge #2

Dawn has another great color combo over on her blog here

I ended up making 2 cards with this combo (one is a mini gift tag card).  I did end up using black for the sentiment on this first card (I'm hoping that's considered a neutral).

I used two petals from a flower to create the soft yellow heart on this mini card:

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Afternoon @ the Farm

This week's challenge over at Practical Scrappers is to use something you've had for over a year.  I've had these letter stickers (the red ones and brown ones) for well over a year, and I've also had the tree branch and leaf cut-outs for just as long.  The photos of my son are from last summer (not quite a year--but feels like it). I faux stiched the brown letter stickers with my white gel pen--I think it gives it a sort of country feel--which is perfect for this page.

I'm not crazy about how it turned out, but just glad to be getting caught up on some photos I've been wanting to scrap!

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Chocolate and Teal

Well, while making a card for the current EBTKS Sketch challenge, I ended up making another card for the current CARDS blog challenge . . . and they both use Chocolate and Teal--two of my favourite colours!

Here's the EBTKS Sketch:

That scallop threw me off--oh, where to put the sentiment??--, but I knew I wanted to use the intricate flower from the Cricut Storybook cartridge for those circles--I've been wanting to use that cut for a while, but haven't found the chance . . . until now:

I'm challenged by this sketch--which makes me want to take another stab at it . . . so I may submit another entry if I get time!

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Then, since I had these colours on my desk and the Storybook cartridge loaded, I tried my chance at the CARDS blog challenge which is to incorporate a bird on your card.  I'm quite please with how it turned out.  I created a whole page of sentiments on Word last week and printed them off, and used one of them here:

A closer "bird's eye" view . . . okay, not really bird's eye, but closer ;)

By the way--that teal "paper" is repurposed from a gift bag--it is a glossy stock, and cut amazingly well on the Cricut!
We're off to Rochester, N.Y. tomorrow for a trip to the big Toy Museum there.  Anyone been there before? Owen is really excited about it--let's hope he's still excited after the 3 hour car ride!! It's our first long trip with our 9 month old, Caden, too--so I'm praying that goes well too!  Hoping there's not a big line up at the border crossing either!

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Just Scraps Challenge #2

I came across a new challenge site--just what I need {wink}!!  This week is only their second challenge and it's Black and White and Red all over.  My creation is a Scrapbook layout of my son--and it's mainly RED, and my "white" is more of a vintage/distressed white.  My inspiration for this page first came from the colours in the photos (which is where I always draw my colour inspiration from for layouts), and it worked well for this challenge.  I picked up the "True Love" painted wooden embellishment in the clearance bin at Michaels after Valentine's day.  I love that it adds some sparkle to the page.

I heat embossed my swirls for a bit of shine on the page; hard to tell in the photo though.

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Hello . . . it's been a while!

Hello . . . haven't posted a card in over a week . . . been catching up on some scrapbooking (I'll post some photos of those later today).  After getting a chance to blog hop this morning, I got some inspiration to create this card, which I'm submitting to 3 challenges (that's a record for me--I've only ever combined 2 challenges, I think).

Embellish Color Challenge with Fabric (I used felt)

2 Scrapbook Friends Sketch (link is to DT member Deanna's page; I'm still trying to figure out how to post to their forum):

365 Cards Day #12 -- Circle Frenzy Include 20 or more circles from at least 2 different sources

Here's my card:

Supplies:

Paper: PTI Kraft cardstock; Canson Watercolor paper    Stamps: Inkadinkado Dots and Circles; Heidi Grace Borders; MSE sentiment  Ink: SU! Not Quite Navy, Ruby Red, Old Olive; Versamark Ink; Colorbox Dragonfly Black; Distress Ink Walnut Stain   Other: ribbon, felt and button from Michaels

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Precious Moments . . .

I love this photo of my husband and baby boy--the moment I took it, I knew I was going to scrapbook it!
I'm submitting this layout for two challenges:

Wplus9 Design Studio's Color Cue Challenge #1

Practical Scrappers--White Pen  I highlighted the Bo Bunny patterned paper with my white UniBall Signo gel pen; the left side of the layout needed some white to accent the white strip and the white behind the photo; I also used it for handwriting part of my title and my son's age next to the photo.

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EBTKS Fabric Challenge

So I made this card about a week ago, but my DH (who was away the last 4 days) had our camera.  I tried a few fabric card ideas for the current EBTKS challenge, but this is the only one that I finished.  The blue fabric is from an old T-shirt.  Not a very original idea using fabric, I guess.  I was thinking of a back pocket as I stitched it.  I thought about making one with a neck tie--for Father's day too--but given the EBTKS deadline is tonight, I'll not likely get that done.  Any-who . . . here's my card:

The leaf stamp is from PTI's Beautiful Blooms set.  I used the kiss technique to add the polka dots to the wider base of the leaves.  Sorry, I can't remember the company for the sentiment--it's from a set of about 15 round holiday sentiments/images (bought it a couple of years ago)

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Curtain Call--Act 20

WARNING--another butterfly card!!  ;)

I can't resist Curtain Call's Color challenges!  Here's this week's--Act #20:

   I've used this dot/circle stamp (Act 18) and a similar butterfly (Act 19) in the last two color challenges, and I didn't intentionally use them again--just worked out that way. 
   The sentiment is from PTI's Big Bold Wishes--I love how you can manipulate clear stamps to the shape that you want.

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2 Colour Challenges

I was inspired by two colour challenges this weekend, and I included those new butterfly digital stamps on them that I talked about in my post yesterday (I warned you that you'd be seeing them again--heehee).  I'm having so much fun colouring them in with lots of different colours.  I don't own any Copic markers, so I've just been experimenting with good old pencil crayons (using a white one to blend) and some cheapy artist markers.

First colour challenge I saw was Embellish's:

In addition to the colours, you also had to include borders on the card, so here's my take:

Cardstock is PTI; sentiment is Inkadinkado; butterfly is Hero Arts digital

The other colour challenge I played along with was Curtain Call Color Challenge-Act 19:

I really tried to keep this card simple.  I had to make my own "Razzleberry" colour.  The butterflies in the inspirational photo made it really easy for me to use those Hero Arts butterflies again--I had printed off a whole page of them yesterday-- they were just waiting to be coloured.  The sentiment is from PTI's Big Bold Wishes--I absolutely love that set!!

I also added some thin wire antennae (pulled out of wired ribbon)

Well, off to watch the Closing Ceremonies of the Olympics!  So proud of our Canadian athletes--most gold won by any country in a Winter Olympics--14!!  What a way to finish it off with that great gold-medal winning Hockey game this afternoon!! 

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Day 364 - {Vicky's Style}

   Well, here's another DT inspired card from 365 cards.  Today's inspiration challenge came from Vicky.  Her style is sharp and clean with soft colours.  She's also a PTI fan, and since I know finally own some PTI goodies, I had to use some (cardstock and sentiment).

   I also had to use my new (new to me any way) Hero Arts digital stamp that I picked over at Two Peas.  I got the idea over at Jennifer McGuire's blog post here.  I printed the butterfly onto watercolour paper and then used some Distress Ink, markers and Stickles to ink and sparkle it up!!  WARNING:  I printed a bunch of them off in a few sizes--so expect to see them in future posts ;)

 
   Here's Vicky's signature style card:

Here's what I came up with (I scraplifted the text element Vicky used on the bottom of her card; oh, I also popped up the butterfly with dimensionals--another Vicky signature):

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