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Is it Wednesday again ALREADY?? I can't believe how quickly time is flying by these days.
I had quite a full weekend. How about you? I took my daughters to lunch on Saturday after taking the birthday girl to the Ortho Urgent Care. She had badly sprained her ankle the night before. After dropping her off at home that afternoon, I stopped at the grocery store. Leaving there I noticed it had started to drizzle - again. As I drove the 20 miles home, the rain turned to slush, covering the roads and freezing my windshield wipers. By the time I was halfway home, I could barely see the road. And then when I finally arrived home, we had 2 - 3 inches of snow, freezing the already wet roads. Yes, I slid around the corners and drove very slowly, and got home without a scratch to myself or my car. I don't remember the last time we actually had such a full-on blizzard here in this part of the country! It was beautiful when it was over, but now I'm done with this cold weather, I tell ya!
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Ok, so let's get on to the Wednesday business! It's Color Throwdown challenge time again! Barbara is our fabulous host this week and she's chosen some beautiful earthy colors for us to play with.
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I decided to be a little different (AGAIN) this week. I wanted to use my new Mini Blueprints #4 stamp set from eclectic Paperie. I decided to use an ivory cardstock base and just use scraps of the colors from the combo.
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I love the look of the images without color, so I just added some blue shading with my Copic markers. It IS a blueprint!! I also scribbled some of the lime color onto the card base beneath where the image panel would go, just to make it stand out a little more.
At this point, I didn't think there was enough blue and I was also using the layout from this week's retrosketches #51 which called for 3 circles along the left edge of the card, so I colored them with my Copics. I used my Copic multiliner pen to outline the circles and to draw additional blueprint lines along the card edges.
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And that's it for me! I hope you'll join us in this week's challenge! You can check out all the rules and details at the Color Throwdown blog. And please stop by to visit with each of the Color Throwdown gals as well:
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Thanks so much for stopping by!
