Just Because for CTS19 & PDCC173

Whenever I see a color challenge that involves black, white and one other color I get an itch to play along.  Such was the color challenge this week at The Play Date Cafe.  Here's what I made:

The other color (to my eye) was Tangerine Tango, so I inked up this great splotchy flower from Awesome Blossom in it.  I love this flower and you all are probably sick of seeing it, but I can't stop reaching for it!  My layout is my interpretation of the sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch and as you can see I took some liberty with the placement of the sentiment.  I couldn't resist changing it up a bit and instead of a banner I made mine a bit of crinkly ribbon from 3 Girl JAM and a tag with a sentiment from Mad Gab.

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Supplies:

Stamps:  Awesome Blossom, Mad Gab (The Alley Way Stamps)

Accessories:  Black Seam Binding Ribbon (3 Girl JAM), Antique Brad (SU), Scallop Square Die (Spellbinders)

colourQ 140

Tuesday brings another fabulous color challenge from Arielle and colourQ for you to try.  For me it was a chance to re-purpose some winter DSP for a non-winter theme.

The real red DSP is from Ski Slope which I paired with a very simple whisper white layer embossed with my favorite PTI embossing plate.  And in a nod to Marisa I've crimped my butterfly before adding a button as embellishment.  She makes the most lovely butterflies.  The first time I saw her crimped butterfly I loved the look and filed it away for future use - and my friends, the future is now!  I think it looks fantastic in these colors.  My layout is from the latest Sketchbook Saturday sketch which I kept fairly simple.

Now head on over to check out all the design team cards at colourQ, then don't forget to link up!

Less is More 50 and Unscripted Sketches 141

I had a very productive card-making day yesterday - I just love when that happens.  And I've got the day off from work today so hopefully I'll be productive again.  This is the first of the cards that I've been making.

The challenge this week at Less is More is to make a one layer card with the subject of birds.  I remembered that I had this cute stamp from Happy Together so armed with the very CAS sketch at Unscripted Sketches I put this together.

I'm not sure why but for some reason this is the second time that I've participated in a Less is More challenge recently and felt the need to hand draw a square to fit around my stamped image.  I don't know - I just took one look at the sketch and that's where my thoughts went.  For this one I punched out two squares from cardstock and then used them as templates to draw them on the cardstock.  I stamped the bird in timber brown Stazon so that I could color it in with a Daffodil Delight marker.  Apparently I didn't wait long enough for the ink to dry, because it ran a smidge on the wing.  The square and the sentiment were done in Early Espresso.

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