Color Throwdown #331

Happy Wednesday, my stampy friends!  Are you ready for a new Color Throwdown challenge today?  Jodi is our gorgeous hostess, and she’s got these fantastic colors to inspire you!  I’m a true 80’s girl… pink and green just GO together, right?  Like, totally!

Here’s my card…

Vickie had me so inspired with her CTD card last week, so I just had to pull out my Altenew Painted Flowers stamp set to create my card for this week.  I used the Mojo Monday sketch #386 for the layout… I completely love the tall, skinny cards!  My flowers were stamped with Cotton Candy hybrid ink and Ripe Raspberry hybrid ink from My Favorite Things, and also Versafine Onyx Black.  The leaves were stamped with Jellybean Green hybrid ink.  I used the LJD Darling Dots stamp set from MFT to add some polka dots to my pink circle that was cut with Stitched Circle STAX Die-Namics, and stamped with a sentiment from Paper Smooches’ Chit Chat stamp set.  The Natural card stock base was stamped with the BG Woodgrain background stamp in Natural hybrid ink, and the Ripe Raspberry card stock panel on the card base was stamped in Ripe Raspberry hybrid ink with the BG Gingham background stamp.  On the Natural card stock panel in the center, I used the Small Brick Wall stencil to emboss, then sponged the edges with some ink.  Behind the circle is a piece of Jellybean Green card stock that was cut with the Fishtail Flags STAX Die-Namics and stamped in Jellybean Green hybrid ink with the Greenery background stamp from Impression Obsession.  A few sequins for embellishment, and I was done!  :)
Be sure to stop by the CTD blog for all the challenge details, and visit my Throwdown sisters for more inspiration… Barbara Anders
Broni Holcombe
Joan Ervin
Jodi Collins
Lori Tecler
Monika Davis
Vickie Zimmer
Wanda Cullen
Jen Shults, Guest Designer
Stephanie Severin, Guest Star Stamper Many thanks to everyone for the sweet comments here on my blog, and on Facebook and Instagram for my Cat’s Pajamas design team news!  I appreciated all the congratulations very much, and can’t wait to share more TCP creations with you!

2013 Congratulations

My daughter needed a graduation card this weekend for a friend... she wanted something a little more non-traditional, and not in the school colors (lest you think there is some school in my area with aqua and orange as their colors!)  I was browsing for some ideas and ran across this graduation card on the Paper Smooches blog, and was inspired.  The mortarboard and flourish are from a Silhouette cut file, the chevrons stamped in the background as well as the number dies are from My Favorite Things, and the sentiment is Paper Smooches.

I hope my daughter and the recipient love it!  And I hope you do, too!  Thanks for stopping by, and happy weekend!

Clean and Simple Thanks

I needed a couple of thank you notes recently, so I came up with these three quick, clean-and-simple designs using a variety of my favorite stamps, dies and cut files!

This first card uses Vegtastic from Paper Smooches, and some assorted scraps of designer paper.

This second card uses the Rainbows & Clouds dies from Lil' Inker Designs with the coordinating stamp set. The clouds are cut from white felt.

And this last card uses my favorite Occasional Labels cut files from My Time Made Easy and a stamp from Stampin' Up! and paper from October Afternoon.

Thanks for checking out my CAS cards!  I'm pretty happy with how they turned out!

Color Throwdown #172

It's Wednesday again, and that means we've got another Color Throwdown challenge for you and actually it's the last one for 2011!  We'll be taking a little holiday break, and will be back on January 4th with more challenges and a few neat changes for you to see in 2012!

Today, Kerri is our hostess and she's picked a really neat color combo for you to try! I just loved this combination, and could think of so much I wanted to do with it.  Unfortunately, I'm also really pressed for time this week so I went with a very non-typical (for me anyway!) clean and simple design using some new Paper Smooches stamps!  This peach and sentiment are from the Fruitastic set, and I paired them with some old Bella Blvd. paper I had in my stash that I knew contained all of these colors (and then some!)

You'll love seeing what all the girls on the Throwdown team did with these colors too, so be sure to stop by their blogs...

Barbara Anders	Broni Holcombe	Danielle Kennedy	Joan Ervin	Kerri Michaud	Keva Brown
Kristin Eberline	Lori Tecler	Lynn Put	Wanda Cullen	Lydia Fielder, Guest Designer

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And extra-special thank you goes out to the fabulous Lydia Fielder for being our Guestie for November and December!  It was great to have you join us, lady!

Happy stamping, peeps!