ColourQ 122

Hello everyone!  I have some very exciting news to share.  Today is my debut as part of the ColourQ Royal Court Design Team!  I can't tell you how excited I am to be part of this talented bunch of designers!  What I can tell you is when Arielle extended the invitation to me I nearly fell off my chair!

I've been a long-time stalker participant of the ColourQ challenge, but I never imagined that one day I would be part of this group.  And to make this all the more sweet, this week's challenge was sure to get my creative juices flowing because it included one of my all-time favorite accent colors:  Basic Black!

Of course, based on this wonderful image my first thought was to do a Valentine's Day card, but once I got going my card morphed into something else entirely.  And I can't forget to say that my layout is courtesy of the awesome sketch over at Create With Connie and Mary.

I used some Real Red designer paper from the Christmas Cocoa collection (hopefully one day soon I'll use all that paper up) which is layered on some Basic Black.  The bottom of that layer is embossed with the Stripes embossing folder which is a wonderful way to add some interesting texture.  The flourish and the flower are from Creative Elements and the simple sentiment is from Everyday Flexible Phrases.

I sure hope you'll join give these colors a try and join us at the ColourQ this week!