Color Throwdown Wednesday challenge #67

This weeks color challenge is being hosted by Tammy. She has chosen these perfectly masculine colors for me as she knew I had to make my hubs a birthday card! Not really, but they worked perfectly for the card I was making him. Happy Birthday Joe!!!

This image is from DRS Designs. It is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Neenah Solar Crest White Ultra Smooth card stock. I colored it with Copics...what little coloring it required.


Both the image and mat are cut with a rectangle Nestabilitie die lightly inked with blue chalk ink while still in the die. They are matted on the green panel which was run through a Cuttlebug folder. I inked around the edges of the green panel and blue sentiment panel with Distress Ink in Walnut Stain. I added some Diamond Glaze to the deers antlers, but it has seen better days...time for new bottle! The sentiment is from SU and the ferns from a Martha Stewart punch and some Doodlebugs polkadot scraps. I wrapped some hemp twine from PTI around the green panel several times but it kind of got hidden by everything.

This buck is a tribute to the one my hubs says he's gonna take down this weekend, uh huh. It might be the only eight pointer he ever gets...

Come on over to the Color Throwdown and join our challenge. Make sure you check out all the DT's great samples!

LeAnne Pugliese - Wee Inklings

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcomb - Splashes of Watercolor

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Cathy Indelicato - Crafty Thoughts

Elise / Guest Designer - Mamacow Creations

It's Color Throwdown #51

This week's Color Throwdown is a special one! Challenge #51 is being sponsored by DRS. And if you check out the blog you will see there's a prize being offered!


I love the simplicity and country feel of this wreath and you can purchase it here. What was the real challenge, as it should be, was trying to get these colors to work with this image. I should have gone much softer-and I would have changed the shape around the image. Hindsight is 20/20. I used a Martha Stewart border punch to create the borders on the two mats under the image. The So Saffron mat I added texture to with my ScorPal. I tried to gussie it up a bit by adding some Sakura Stardust glitter pen to the berries, and others I added dots of Liquid Pearls in Lavender. I added some Kaiser gems above the scalloped border and the pin was a plain pearl head that I glued some beads on.

Make sure you check out the awesome cards produced by the DT below and play along to be in the running for a great prize package from our sponsor DRS Designs! Make sure you used keyword CTD51 if you upload to a public gallery. Have a great day!

LeAnne Pugliesi - Wee Inklings
Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits
Broni Holcomb - Splashes of Watercolor
Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy
Cathy Indelicato - Crafty Thoughts
Juliana Swanson - Stampin' with Inky Fingers - July Guest Designer

PUMPKIN FLOWER ARRANGEMENT

This is a birthday card that I made for my great aunt. She is my mother's aunt, my grandmother's sister, and one of the few living relatives left from that generation on my mother's side. I really can't remember the last time I saw her...not since I was a kid. Aunt Betty has never, ever, ever forgotten my birthday. I don't recall my mother ever making me send her a birthday card, but as soon as I was old enough I made sure I sent her one every year. She makes sure she sends my boys birthday cards too. Without fail this woman never forgets...wish I could say the same about some other family...oh well. In any case, her birthday is the day before Halloween so I thought a fall themed card was appropriate.

I waded (almost literally) through a kiddie pool of unmounted rubber at the DRS booth at the last stamp show I attended in September. I struck gold when I found this beauty! I attempted to emulate Paula Williams, colored pencils on kraft paper, and although it falls short of her gorgeous creations such as this one, I think it came out good none the less. I painted over most of the flowers and the pumpkin with Shimmerz in coordinating colors. You can see the sparkle in the picture above. it's a little washed out from the reflection. Below is a little close up of the flowers and you can see the colors better.

Stamps: DRS, pumpkin; Rubber Cottage, sentiment

Paper: Rusty Pickle dp, PTI kraft and dark chocolate cardstock

Accessories: Prisma pencils/oms, Shimmerz, PTI dark chocolate dot ribbon, button, hemp, Nestabilities, paper piercer.

Have a great day!!!