April 14, 2015

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I sat down this afternoon to complete a card for the Paper Craft Crew Card Sketch 139 Challenge. The design team created a lot of awesome samples to spur the imagination. The challenge sketch is below:

PCCCS139sketch

I wanted to have a Mother’s Day card to share with my group of stampers; so, to work I did go. I really, really, really, (did I say really???) love the Birthday Bash DSP and its color combinations. I just can’t get enough of Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive.. It just reminds me of summer. The sample sketch looks like a 6″ x 6″ card, but I whittled mine down to a 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ card. I wanted a fresh, clutter free card; therefore, I only stamped one large flower in Calypso Coral and accented the sentiment with a smaller flower in the same color. I accented the card with butterflies and diamond rhinestones tinted with a Blendabilities marker (Wild Wisteria – darkest color). I made a scallop oval mat for the sentiment by punching two oval scallops, cutting them in half (one vertical; the other horizontal). I then placed them behind the oval with the sentiment to create a border. If there was overlapping that showed, which it did, I trimmed off that portion of the scallop.

I think the card turned out just like I envisioned. I didn’t have a “Hot Mess” in this week’s challenge like I did in a challenge I entered last week. LOL

PCCCS139

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This week’s Pal Paper Arts’ Challenge is (for me) a real challenge.  The challenge is to make a card featuring the following three colors:PPA247 A Color Challenge

The Pal Paper Arts design team made some wonderful cards using these colors. My favorite is Mike Funke’s card. He really nailed it.

Anyway, I decided to feature the Balloon Bash stamp set, and thus began the card making. I didn’t want to introduce any other colors besides the challenge colors (other than white) just to see if I could pull this off.  In my opinion, this is a hard challenge because the colors can almost look the same depending on the lighting.

Here is the completed card:

PPA247

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I must say the “real” challenge was taking a picture that looked halfway like the card. I took outdoor pictures, indoor pictures (a lot of pictures), and I finally decided on this one. So, needless to say, the real challenge was getting a decent picture. LOL

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