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Happiness: Good Friends, family, summer at the beach, creating with rubber stamps

 

Tough color challenge and WSC35 sample

This week was another super hard color challenge for me: Orchid Opulence (really? I had to throw all my scraps away after looking at them. They were so old that the sun had bleached them badly!!!), Certainly Celery and Pumpkin Pie. It looks so much like Halloween.

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You know I had to throw some Chocolate Chip in there.

Chocolate Chip makes everything better!!!

The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock folded in half.

It was topped with a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Orchid (insert a little gag here) Opulence.

The Certainly Celery Prints Designer Paper layer measures 3 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ and was layered on a 3 3/8″ x 4 1/2″  piece of Whisper White cardstock.

5/8″ Celery grosgrain and the new 1/4″ Chocolate Polytwill ribbon were wrapped around the left side and a double photo corner was added to the top right. I paper pierced all around this layer.

For the main image I stamped the triple flower stamp from Just Because from the Occasional Mini catalog in Brown Stazon on a 2 1/8″ square of Shimmery White cardstock. It was colored the image in with Pumpkin Pie, Orchid Opulence, Certainly celery and Chocolate Chip ink and Aqua Painter.

I punched a small oval out of a post it note and layered the opening over the bottom of the flower stems. I then I used a sponge dauber to add some color under the flowers. All four corners were paper pierced , vintage brads were added to the smaller flowers and a Rhinestone brad in the center flower.

A 1/4″ bigger layer of Chocolate chip and then Pumpkin Pie were layered underneath the image layer.

Filed under : Challenge, Stampin' Up!
By beate
On February 22, 2008
At 8:31 am
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Weekend Sketch Challenge #36

Here is the sketch for this weekend:

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To participate in the challenge and be entered in the  raffle, make a card with this layout and upload it either to your blog, or to an online gallery.

 If you upload your card on SCS, put WSC36  (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 36) in the keyword section. That way we can look at all of them at once!

Post a link to your card to this blog entry as a comment. Please add your entry# to it.

I will determine the winner  with Random.org on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m.

To see samples made with this sketch now, check out the blogs of

Cambria Turnbow

Charmaine Ikach

Jenn Balcer

Laurie Schmidlin 

Lori Craig

MaryJo Albright

Sharon Harnist

Have fun creating! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

SCS submissions

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At 8:30 am
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Fresh & Fun Freebies winner

Random.org picked number #269. That’s Jennifer Greco from Glitter in my Hair.

Jennifer contact me with your mailing address and I will get the goodies to you.

 Thank you all for your kind comments! Hugs and smiles

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By beate
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At 8:00 am
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RAK from Donna Baker

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Check out this gorgeous card!

Does it ever showcase the gorgeous new cuttlebug folder!!!

Of course I NEED it now! LOL

Donna Baker sent me this beauty!

You can see more of her wonderful work on her blog Serenity in Stamping.

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