Saturday, June 4, 2011

FTL143 and Color Dare 103

I've found myself stumped quite a bit in my stamp room this week, and I haven't even been in there all that much.  Last night I sat down to make a card for the FTL143 and Color Dare 103 challenges.  The FTL sketch looks like this:
And the colors are Tempting Turquoise, Pear Pizzazz and Very Vanilla.  Sounds easy right?  That's what I thought, but as it turns out trying to make a card with two colors and a neutral is really hard!  At least for me anyway.  But I persevered and eventually came up with this:

The good news is that I actually like this card.  Once I got it done and started photographing it, I thought it didn't look half bad.  The bad news is that I should be making graduation cards for a party later today and since I took time out to make this card, I'm in danger of {gasp} having to buy some cards. 

Someone send the paramedics, I think I'm going to faint!

So that being said, I'm signing off to put my nose to the grindstone and make those cards.  My family is very well aware that I always make my own cards, and my name will be mud if I show up to this party with store bought cards.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have time to stamp today!

11 comments:

Judy said...

Just stunning. Have a great day
Judy

Lesley said...

Love this Jen, it is the perfect grad card! Happiness says it all! have fun today and hope you are over your fainting spell! LOL! Thanks for joining us at the CD.
Lesley

Heidi said...

Love, love, love the simplicity of this card! And I love that you were able to pull off only using just the 3 cards. I had a hard time, too! The addition of the butterfly is perfect!

Carol Wilde said...

The card is sooo sweet - love the tiny butterfly !

Carol

Lori Turner said...

Once again, Jen...a stunner!! WTG! Thanks for playing with us at The Color Dare :)

Kim Ryden said...

Such a cute card! I love it and I love that sketch...I might have to use it soon! Thanks for playing with us at Color Dare this week.

Vicky Hayes said...

You're on such a roll Jen - I love it!

jjcreations said...

Very delicate and pretty. Thanks for joining us in the Color Dare this week.

~ Jennifer ~ said...

Very prety card.

Kathryn said...

Oh. Wow. I LOVE it, seriously!
So elegant.
Thanks for joining us in the Color Dare this week.
Have a great day,
--Kathryn

Laurie HIMCR said...

Gorgeous card! So soft and elegant! Great job with this week's colors and thanks for playing with us over at The Color Dare!

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~Laurie