Blush Butterfly- cQc#19 & SASC41

Arielle over at Colour Q has another challenge this week. The colors are Regal Rose, Blush Blossom, Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip and White. Yes, you did read Blush Blossom. Blush Blossom is a hard color for me to work with. I usually only use it for skin tone things I make...which is not very often! So i t was a challenge for me to use it, but I did! I also combined this color challenge with the Stampin Addicts Sketch Challenge this week.

Here is my card. I like the way it came out...even with Blush Blossom! The squares are 1 3/8" and then they are stamped with a sneak peak stamp set called Elements of Style using Versa Mark. The sentiment (Life is a matter of moments) is also is the sneak peak stamp set and was stamped using Chocolate Chip ink.

The butterfly was die cut using my Big Shot and the Beautiful Butterflies dies. It is hard to see in the picture, but I did spray the Blush Blossom butterfly with a little bit of Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint and Alcohol mix to give it a little more interest.

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Rich Razzled Leaves- CAS33, CC237, SAAC 9.23

Here is a card that I made with one challenge in mind when I started and when I was done I had combined three that I had been wanting to do! All three challenges just fell into this simple card very nicely together!

The three challenges are Splitcoast's Color Combination, which was Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry and Basic Black, Splitcoast's Clean and Simple (CAS), which was to be inspired by this sketch and Stampin' Addicts Accessories Challenge which was to use one of SU! Library Clips.

I used SU! Falling Leaves stamp set to stamp the leaves in Rich Razzleberry ink, then added the Crushed Curry ribbon and the Library Clip. I mounted the main image on dimentionals, then added the sentiment from the stamp set Thank You Kindly in Basic Black ink and I was done! So simple and quick!

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Echos of Purple- SACC31

As I was looking around blogs yesterday I saw on Brandi's (The Squareheaded stamper)blog something about challenges at Stampin Addicts so I decided to go check it out. It is an online community that loves stamping, so I had to join! As I was looking around I found a color combo challenge I had to try!

The colors were Rich Razzleberry, Pale Plum, Basic Gray and Basic Black and here is the card I made using them. I used the retired stamp set Echos of Kindness. I inked and stamped the main image with Versa Make on the Richrazzleberry cardstock to give it a subtle backround. I stamped the image on watercolor paper and used my aqua painter pen to color it in. I finished the card off by tying a piece of 5/8" Basic Black Grossgrain ribbon and adding a few black brads.

I look forward to participating in more challenges over at Stampin Addicts!

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