Color Throwdown 184

It's time for another Color Throwdown Challenge and this week Barbara Anders has some really awesome spring colors for us! I immediately went to some papers in My Mind's Eye "A Beautiful Life" pad - not an exact eggplant color but thought it was in the purple family and would work.

 The layout is using last week's Deconstructing Sketch #43 with the one panel being perfect to highlight one of Verve's Plain Jane stamps!

STAMPS: PJ Psalm 3:3 (Verve), Serenity (Verve)
PAPER: MME "A Beautiful Life", White
INK: Versafine Onyx Black
ACCESSORIES: Corner chomper, Brads, Leafy Flourish die by Cheery Lynn Designs

We'd love to have you join us! No worries if you don't have the exact colors... feel free to substitute colors that are close! Make a card or paper crafted project and post it to your blog or online gallery. Then use the direct link and link it to the Color Throwdown blog using the Inlinkz tool at the bottom of the CTD post. If you post to an online gallery, please use CTD184 as your keyword.

 So...are you ready to be inspired?? Check out what the Color Throwdown Designers, along with our talented March guestie, Bev Gerard, have created!

Barbara Anders,  Broni Holcombe, Danielle Kennedy, Joan Ervin, Kerri Michaud, Kristin Eberline, Lori Tecler, Lynn Put, Tammy Hershberger Bev Gerard (March Guest Designer).

Timeless Tuesday & CC

I have an extra day off work, so I'm treating myself to some stampy time and decided to play along with the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge and also the Color Challenge on SCS.  Peggy has chosen Chocolate Chip, River Rock and Baja Breeze with the dessert option to use pleated ribbon.  I had to omit the pleated part, but I did include ribbon.  I thought the papers in MME's Paris & Co. pad worked well for the colors.  Silke Ledlow has a great sketch for the FTTC and the long layout gave me a chance to use some of Flourishes' new wide lace - imported from France!  The image was colored with the following Copics: BG10, BG11, BG13YG61, YG63, YG67, Y06.

STAMPS: Sweet Violets
PAPER: Paris & Co. (MME), Vintage Cream (PTI)
INK: Chocolate Chip, Memento Tuxedo Black
ACCESSORIES: Cloud seam binding by MS, Charming Banner die by Verve, Adhesive pearls, Labels 25 Nesties, Lace by Flourishes.

Teapot Tuesday

Mothermark's Teapot Tuesday theme is "Dancing with the Chars" and we are to bring lots of colorful butterflies to the party...and... we're to add some birthday elements.  For the complete story, you'll want to read more HERE.  The destination this week is for the mother of one of the SCS/tea party member's mother, Joan, in Richmond, VA.  She's been homebound with some health issues and so we're going to bring her some "warm fuzzies" in the form of birthday wishes.  I got to inititate a new toy that came in the mail today - Persian Accents Shapeabilities by Spellbinders.  Love the ornate border it creates!  I wove some celery seam binding through a picot edge Nestie die and punched 2 butterflies so I could pop one on top of the other.  Speaking of dancing...I watched the first show of the new season of Dancing with the Stars and it looks like there will be some stiff competition!  Thanks for stopping by!

STAMPS: Big Wish (Verve)
PAPER: Six by Six "Vanity Fair" paper by MME, Chocolate Chip, Vintage Cream
INK: Chocolate Chip
ACCESSORIES: Corner chomper, SU Celery seam binding, SB Persian Accents Shapeabilities, Butterfly punch by MS, Rhinestones by MME.

CAS Thank You

Good Monday morning friends! I'm procrastinating with some work projects so I could whip up a quick card for the CAS Challenge on SCS to use Angela's (aka Arizona Maine) great sketch. This is a blast from the past using older SU sets.  The base was A-2 size initially but the white space on the left side was just too out of proportion, so I chopped off another 1/4" and it fit my eye better - lol!  The floral image was created by coloring with TomBow markers (905 and 098) directly to the rubber, then huffing and stamping to the paper.

STAMPS: The Art of Life (SU), Wonderful Words (SU)
PAPER: Calypso Coral, Old Olive, White
INK: So Saffron, Versafine Onyx Black

Four Leaf Clover

In recognition of four leaf clovers, this week's Raise the Bar Challenge is to create a card using elements in increments of four: 4 buttons, 4 flowers, etc. I used 4 CS layers for my focal panel as well as 4 rounded squares and 4 frond punches.  Papers are all by Papertrey Ink.  The sentiment tag is from PTI's Tiny Tags stamp set and also uses their tiny tag die.  Quick and easy!

So, let's see what you can come up with for this challenge!  Head on over to the Raise the Bar blog to see what our guest artists as well as the design team - Joni, Thanh, Julie and Peggy - have created for your inspiration!

Front & Back Challenge

It's another noon time challenge during the release week on the Flourishes blog and this time it's a "Front and Back Challenge" - use the same image in the BG as you use in the main image.  There are two images in this Sweet Violets set that are identical in design but are 2 different sizes.  I stamped the kraft panel in black using the smaller image.  I had to do some out of the box stamping/paper-piecing so I could fit everything in using the Mojo Monday Sketch for this week.  Teresa Kline has a fabulous sketch for us while Julee (Verve owner and proud new mom of twin boys) is taking a little "break" (we all know becoming a new mom is anything but a break - lol)!  I layered some embroidered trim over sheer ribbon and loved the look!  I also got to try punching a decorative edge along the entire side of the card thanks to Cindy Lawrence's very helpful tutorial video you can see HERE. 

STAMPS: Sweet Violets (Flourishes), Kids Play (Flourishes) - sentiment
PAPER: Black, White, Kraft, Concord Crush
INK: Memento Tuxedo Black
ACCESSORIES: Modern Garland border punch by MS, Sheer ribbon (Hobby Lobby), Embroidered trim by Wright's, Circle Nestie, Button by SU, Silver bow wire, Copics (BV02, BV04, BV08, Y35, Y00, YG61, YG63, YG67).

Round and Round

Yesterday's noontime challenge on the Flourishes blog is a "round and round" challenge.  Create a card using a circle as the base and that's all that's required!  Playing along will give me a chance to win some new release sets and I'm loving the new peeks this week!  I decided to combine this challenge with Stacy Morgan's DD Christmas Challenge for March to use green.  I'm not sure I'm happy with the liquid pearls for the berries, but there's no turning back now - lol!

STAMPS: Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Flourishes
PAPER: Season's Greetings by Echo Park, Vintage Cream (PTI), Old Olive
INK: Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Rich Cocoa
ACCESSORIES: Circle and Picot Edge Circle Nesties, Ribbon trim, Copics (YG61, YG63, YG67, R22, R24, R27).