Splashes of Watercolor

Three Nice Gifts - Color Throwdown #224

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Yay!  It's Wednesday and time for a brand new Color Throwdown challenge!  Today Lori is our hostess and she's brought us a sweet, spring-like color combo to play with!

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I decided to use my new image from the A Day For Daisies January 2013 Club Kit, called Three Nice Gifts.  (There's a blog hop going on at the ADFD blog and you could win the entire kit if you leave comments!)

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I thought these colors were perfect to use to decorate the gifts.  And imagine my delight when I pulled out the coral colored dotted paper and it matched my gift perfectly!  LOVE when that happens!

My layout is from this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #175 and I'm also entering this card into the Crazy 4 Challenges #167 - Ribbons and Bows challenge.

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I hope you'll decide to play along with us!  You'll have to agree this is a super fun color combo!

Be sure to check out what my Color Throwdown sisters have created for your inspiration and viewing pleasure:

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Thanks so much for stopping in today!  See you soon!

 

Penguin Fun - Color Throwdown #217

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Yee haw, it's hump day!  Only 2 more days until the weekend!  Of course, Wednesday also means it's time for a new Color Throwdown challenge!  More reason to celebrate!

Denise is our super fun and talented hostess and I just love her choice of colors this week!

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I'm also playing along in the CAS(E) This Sketch! #4:

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I love it, and I knew right away that I wanted to use a little penguin from the Our Craft Lounge Penguin Fun stamp set as one of the 3 featured elements.

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I colored up my little guy using Copic markers to bring in all the color for the challenge.  The piece of paper tape was a last minute detail that I decided to add and I'm so glad I did.  LOVE it!  I put Star Dust stickles on one of the background snowflakes and also around the edge of the sentiment layer.

So how about playing along in the challenge with us?  It's super simple:  Use these colors (or something very close) to create a paper-crafted project; then link it up to today's blog post on the Color Throwdown blog.

And don't forget to visit with my Color Throwdown sisters for some awesome inspiration!

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Thank you so much for dropping by today!  I hope the rest of your week glides by happily!

 

Fall Leaves - Color Throwdown #216

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Hi there!  It's time for this week's edition of the Color Throwdown challenge!  Kerri is our hostess and she picked a really cool combo and inspiration photo for us:

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At first I couldn't decide what to do with the combo, but once I chose to make some pumpkin-colored leaves, everything kind of fell into place.

I stamped my leaves from the Our Craft Lounge Simply Fall set onto a piece of white cardstock and scribbled on them with some Copic markers, then cut them out.

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My kraft card base was a 3.5" wide scrap that I folded in half and since it was so narrow it allowed me to let a few elements hang off the edge of the base.  I loved last week's Freshly Made Sketches #58, so that was my inspiration for this layout.

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The zig zags from the Every Heartbeat stamp set were stamped in SU's night of navy ink onto the kraft and all the ribbons are either adhered or stapled with the tiny attacher onto the card base.

The leaves are adhered to a rosette made with the Sizzix Paper Rosette die.

We certainly hope you'll join us in this week's Color Throwdown challenge!  It's simple!  You can find all the details on the CTD blog, and also please be sure to browse through all the wonderful inspiration projects of the design team:

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Thanks so much for stopping in!  In just a little while I'll be joining in on a super-fun Wendy Vecchi blog hop with the eclectic Paperie team.  Please come back and check it out!

 

Green Eyed Monsters!

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Hey, guys!  I couldn't wait for you to see the A Day For Daisies release for this week!  Here are the Green Eyed Monsters:

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I made Halloween cards for all the grandkids and had a true blast doing it! 

I won't bore you with a lot of details because there are so many photos, but I will tell you that we're starting a new challenge this week - #56 Use Halloween colors.

I used Monster Joe and Monster Molly for my cards. Coloring these cuties was so much fun, and I love that I was able to use some more of the googly eyes from my Wednesday project! 

The super cool sentiment is from the Our Craft Lounge Spooky Tags stamp set, and I used the iSpy Sketches #ISSC38 for my layout.

Here you go:

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Aren't they so FUN??  You can see all the new images at the ADFD shop and at the ADFD blog.  And please be sure to check out all the fun creations from the rest of the design team:

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Alice Wertz
Arielle Gordon
Shelly Mercado
Tracy MacDonald

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Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a fabulous weekend!

 

Happy Haunting - Color Throwdown #214

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It's time for another Color Throwdown challenge!  Joan is our hostess with the mostess and she's chosen an awesome combo:

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I didn't use a lot of white in my creation.  I thought black went along with my Halloween theme a little better.

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I'm also playing along with the Our Craft Lounge blog challenge OCL#138:

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My image is from A Little Witchy from Our Craft Lounge; all my other supplies are from eclectic Paperie.  I just love playing with my Dylusions ink sprays!  My canvas tag  is from Maya Road, the button is from Buttons Galore, and I used several different twines, all placed on my black tag.

Check out the CTD blog for all the challenge details and please be sure to visit with my CTD sisters:

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Thanks so much for dropping by today!  Yes, all the candy in the treat tube was gone by the time I finished typing this post!  Enjoy the rest of your week!

 

Each and Every Day - Color Throwdown #213

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Hey, everyone!

It's my week to host the Color Throwdown challenge and I've chosen some beautifully bright and vivid colors, based on a photo of some gorgeous flowers.

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What do you think?  Great combo, huh?

I've had this fascination for die cut feathers lately, but have no feather dies of my own.  So I decided to play around with my Silhouette and came across this awesome feather cut file.  Love it!  I used it to cut a feather in each of this week's colors.

My card is very CAS, using the feathers, a Polka Dots embossing folder, some Twinery twine and a fabulous sentiment from the new Our Craft Lounge set, Everyday Sentiments. 

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Now it's your turn!  I hope you'll play along with us this week.  You can find all the challenge details at the Color Throwdown blog.

Check out what the CTD sisters have created for your inspiration:

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Thanks for stopping by!

 

Enjoy Your Day - Color Throwdown #212

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Hi, y'all!

I hope you're all doing well and enjoying your week so far!

Today's Wednesday and that means it's time for the newest Color Throwdown challenge!  Barbara is our hostess this week.  She chose some cool patterned paper as her inspiration.  Check it out:

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My card today is also for the Our Craft Lounge challenge OCL136 - Buttons & Bows.

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I chose to go really simple and let my patterned paper do most of the work.  It just so happened that this Webster's Pages 6x6 paper had all the right colors, and I really loved the street sign pointing the way to Happiness and Adventures!

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I stamped the sentiment from the Big Birthday Wishes stamp set from Our Craft Lounge onto some of the patterned paper and popped it up on Scotch foam mounting tape.  Then I tied on the ribbon and attached the bow and twine.  Easy peasy!

I hope you'll play along in the Color Throwdown challenge with us.  Check out the details at the CTD blog and be sure to visit with our designers and our new Guest Designer for October for some super inspiration:

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Thanks so much for coming by to see me today! 

 

Thankful Flourishes - Color Throwdown #211

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Hey, guys!  Are you ready for some …….Throwdown??  Surely you didn't think I was going to say football, did you? LOL!

This week Wanda is our hostess and she's chosen the most beautiful inspiration photo!

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I was a little unsure of the color choices however.  That Summer Starfruit color really threw me off.  I still don't have a good grip on what exactly that color is.  But trudge on I did!!  I used a few different greenish, yellowish elements in hopes that Starfuit is at least sort of represented!

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I used my Thankful Flourishes set from Our Craft Lounge.  That will always be one of my favorite floral sets!  The latest challenge at the OCL blog is OCL135 - Hexagons!  Love hexagons, so I'm playing along in that challenge too!

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And my layout is the MOJO260 sketch, but my card isn't round or square.  Oops!

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We hope you'll join us in the Color Throwdown challenge this week!  You don't have to use the exact colors (like me!), but just something close!  Then link up your creation at the CTD blog.

Check out the great inspiration from my Color Throwdown sisters here:

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I'd like to extend a HUGE thanks to my dear friend, Sherry Cheever, for so graciously playing along with us this month.  Her creations are ALWAYS awesome!!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you'll come back for another visit very soon!

 

EEEK! It's Your Birthday!

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Hey guys!  I've got a QUADRUPLE challenge card for you today!

I'm playing along in the Our Craft Lounge OCL134 challenge - All About Twine:

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And the Unscripted Sketches #176:

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AND the CAS-ual Fridays:CFC70 - Black and White Plus One:

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PLUS the Dynamic Duos #20 challenge to use Black and Lime with a Halloween theme:

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Whew!  And you may think this is a Halloween card.  It certainly has all the elements to be one.  But it's not!

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This is actually the card I made for my sister's 60th birthday.  Yeah, she's WAY older than me!    She's got a great sense of humor, so I think she'll get a kick out of it!  The inside will say "Happy Birthday.....from one OLD ghoul to another!"

After I embossed the black Core'dinations paper, I sanded it with my Idea-ology Sanding Grip Block to let the lime color show through.  I distress the edges of all my layers by running my Tonic scissors all along them.  I wrapped the Honeydew Twinery twine around the distressed layer 3 times and tied it in a bow.  The graveyard scene was stamped with Memento tuxedo black ink and the EEEK! was stamped in Ranger Distress Shabby Shutters.  (All of these can be found at eclectic Paperie.)

Thanks so much for dropping by to say hello!  I'll be back tomorrow with another A Day For Daisies creation!  Hope to see you then!

 

Shades of Fall - Color Throwdown #209

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Can it really be Fall already??  I'm just NOT ready!!  But just in case I have to give up the idea of extending the summer months….I've used an Our Craft Lounge stamp set called Shades of Fall for my card today.  This week's color combo from Lynn just SCREAMS Fall!

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I spread several different colors of Distress inks from eclectic Paperie on my craft sheet, spritzed with some water, and laid my Sticky-Back Canvas ATC and my Maya Road Mini Canvas Tag onto it, then dried them with my heat gun.

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I used a Spellbinders die to emboss the kraft card base.  My Shades of Fall image was stamped on a Manila ATC, colored with Distress inks, then cut out and popped up on Scotch foam tape.  I tied a May Arts ribbon around the card front, then attached the canvas tag using a piece of Twinery Cappucino twine.

My layout is from this week's retrosketches #28.

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I'm also playing along in this week's CAS-ual Friday CFC69 challenge:

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That's it for me!  Please be sure to check out all the cool creations of my Color Throwdown sisters:

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Thanks for stopping in!  I appreciate it!!