Color Throwdown #48

I haven't played along with this challenge in a while. And to be honest when I saw the colors I thought...hmmm...nah. But then I remembered my brand new pink gingham ribbon and thought it would look really good with kraft and I have been wanting to do a baby card for a while now.

So this what I came up with:

That crocheted flower is one my mom made for me. I remember her teaching me to crochet, like, seven times before it took. I wanted to learn so bad. {Much the same way Little d begs to scrapbook with me everyday.} I was left-handed and mom was right-handed and while she was a patient teacher I was NOT a patient learner, so I would continually get frustrated and give up. Eventually it took and now I love to crochet. I really love working with big chunky yarns, sometimes using three strands at a time. My mom hates using big yarn but loves crocheting with that teeny cotton thread that I hate to use. So in summary, she makes these for me...

Details:

Paper: juniper B&T from 'Unforgettable' (CTMH), kraft (Paper Reflections-HL)

Ink: juniper (CTMH)

Stamps: Solo W and Solo B (CTMH)

Other: pink gingham (Robert Stanley Collection-HL), button-stash, twine-stash, crocheted flower (my awesome Mom)

Color Throwdown #35

I think I practiced great self restraint when making this card. I saw the colors and tried to pick the CTMH colors to match. A little tricky. I'm not sure CTMH really has these colors. But then when I glanced though my non-CTMH paper stash I found this great stripe paper. Perfect!


I paired it with Goldrush cardstock and Vineyard Berry ink and then...stopped. No, I didn't add ribbon, or bling, or brads even though it was tempting. I thought, 'this would be a quick card to mass produce for Thank You notes.' So I left it as is.





ETA: I got so excited that my handy dandy husband got the pics off my camera I almost forgot to link the challenge. HERE it is.

My First Color Throwdown

I stumbled across yet another color challenge and HERE is the link. It's called Color Throwdown, which is quite appropriate because the colors were tricky. The CTMH equivalent colors (as near as I can figure) are Moonstruck, Key Lime and Baby Pink. Yikes!

For starters, I don't even have those colors of cardstock. So I pulled out my ink pads and stared at them. I thought of stamping patterns to create paper and that's how I came up with the idea to make preggo's dress using paper piecing. First I brayered Key Lime onto white cardstock and then stamped the Moonstruck dots. Then I stamped the figure in black and cut out the dress.

I colored the face with pencils and the shoes and earrings and hands with markers. And let's talk about the surgery I performed to get those hands in place. It was me, tweezers, pokey tool, and glue. "Scapel....clamp...STAT!" But I did it. I cut those teeny tiny hands out and glued them over the dress.

For accessories I inked the edges of white Prima flowers with Moonstruck. The patterned paper is not CTMH. And who knows where I got the little flower brad centers.

Anyway I think I have had the most fun with this challenge of all the ones I've been doing.