Make It Monday #64: Using Color Inspiration ~ Day 2

OK! I made it to day two! That is good, right? I have 2 cards because I cannot decide which I like best! Please tell me which one you like. At first I thought the twine was too much but when I took it off it looked to plain to me. What do you think?

So, this challenge uses the colors listed above. I DID not use the rule of three. too much two days in a row. I spent 2 1/2 hours at Sam's getting Graduation party invitations printed. Made my head just about EXPLODE! BUT..... Colin, you know that precious Senior, is in Salt Lake at the DECA Conference. DECA is an an international marketing organization for High School & College. Colin and his friend Alex made the finals!  WooHoo! We will know later how he placed, but I AM SO PROUD!

OK, sorry about that! A little detour! The card is my usual 4 1/4x5 1/2 white card stock side fold. The panel is berry Sorbet stamped with Background Basics: Chevron Stripes Stamp Set in Fine Linen ink the Mat is Mega Mat Stack 4 using Hawaiian Shores card stock. I used Willow stamps and dies to make the tree with simply Chartreuse card stock & VersaMark ink, the trunk is Fine Linen. Christmas Label die was used to cut Aqua Mist card stock and the Willow stamp was inked with Hawaiian Shores.

PLEASE let me know which one you like. I will copy this card, again!

Thank you for looking at my blog!

Susan

Make It Monday #64: Using Color Inspiration

I LOVE this challenge.  I LOVE the colors.  But, boy.... it was a LOT harder than I thought it would be! First of all I have all of the colors in card stock but I don't have Canyon Clay ink! I need to order that! Second it was a LOT of color to work with when you are trying to follow Nichole's "rule of three". WAAAAAY harder than I thought it would be. 5 colors, so you need at LEAST 15 color elements! I COMPLETELY ripped off Nichole's card, totally! I had a crazy day, and I want to do a card every day this week and keep up with the color challenges, so I CHEATED! BTW, I got the proofs of Colin's Senior Pictures! Can I tell you he is the cutest 2012 Senior, maybe the cutest senior, ever (don't tell Josh or Brandon!) Anyway, my time was off, so..... I copied Nichole's card.  I used Rosie Posie background on the mat and mat Stack 5, the Sunflower mini set & dies, Turning a New Leaf die, oval Limitless Layers, and Dawns Signature Greetings.

My intention is to be back tomorrow with a new color challenge! Fingers crossed!

Thank you for looking at my blog!

Susan

Movers and Shakers part 2

Before the Blog Hop I had posted a card with hints on Movers and Shakers dies. This is the Spiral Poppers die. Nichole Heady has a video HERE that shows you how to use it. I still struggled a bit with perfect placement of the cut on this card, like I did the first time. I think the key is where you put the embellishments, so that where you place the popper spiral will allow the embellishments to remain in the card when it is folded. The largest butterfly sneaks out the bottom of the card. You can push that edge back in, but I think if I would put the larger elements toward the fold rather than the front edge, it would solve the problem. I hope that makes sense! 

The paper is one I LOVE. It is from an old DVWV stack. I have one more sheet I am hoarding! I love stretching pattern paper in the way I did here. It is interesting and saves that favored paper. You can see I used Mat Stack 1 & Layerz, Eyelet Lace Border die, and 2 butterfly dies. 

So pretty with pretty paper!

Thank you for looking at my blog!

Susan

April Blog Hop

Yikes I had a rough time with my posts today. Scroll on down and you will see why!

Susan

April Blog Hop

There is going to be a series of post's followed by a longer one with the same cards. I am sorry about that. I was trying to put all of the cards I made for the blog hop on one entry but it will not let me link them that way, so I had to post them individually. Sorry you have to look at them twice, but be sure and scroll all the way to the first post and see what I wrote and where it shows what the challenge was.

Thank you for looking at my blog!

Susan

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