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Post by joblackford on Oct 6, 2021 3:29:39 GMT
My Wednesday challenges are going to be simple - a color inspiration to give you a starting point. Today's color scheme comes from this calendar page:  CARDtober 6th by jo.blackford, on Flickr You can choose a bold scheme from the bottom row or a pastel scheme from the top row or something in between. You don't have to use all of the colors and you can add an extra accent color like I did. It's just a place to start. Use whatever you like - inks or patterned paper or cardstock. Easy!  CARDtober day 6 by jo.blackford, on Flickr Full disclosure, I haven't glued down the harvest moon or the dewdrops yet. I had a crisis of indecision at the last minute. I think this will be a birthday card for my friend at the end of the month. I don't know if the moon and the bee "make sense" together but then again, do purple sunflowers? Idk. The twist: use some older and new products together. This card uses CP "Paradise Found" inks I bought last fall, 2 different My Monthly Hero kits from early spring and late summer, and a Halloween stamp set I just bought (for the moon). You can define old and new for yourself  Challenge points: *Create a card based on the challenge: 2 points *Apply the twist to your card: 1 point *PLUS: create the card AND use the twist for a bonus of FIVE points! These points are in addition to the easy peasy or regular challenge points you are claiming so a card + twist + make + share with easy peasy scoring is worth 20 points! |
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Post by azcrafty on Oct 6, 2021 14:15:02 GMT
Wow!!! Beautiful card joblackford and that color combo is gorgeous 😍. Love the flowers in purple, I almost got that kit too. The flower could be a daisy or mums 🤔 I don't think the shape screams sun flower. Or at least not to me . Great challenge! |
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Post by jjpeapea on Oct 6, 2021 15:50:52 GMT
Thank you for the color challenge joblackford . I am liking the color variations in your card. I liked having specific color choices but a variety of shades. I sketched out a card and then after looking through my paper made a totally different card. I used some 4, 10, 25 and kind of 1 in the off-whiteness of the snowflake and sentiment. Sill liking azcrafty 's triple heat embossing.  |
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Post by grammadee on Oct 6, 2021 16:15:14 GMT
Awesome colour inspiration, joblackford. Beautiful card. When i saw that stamp, I thought yellow sunflowers, but the way you coloured it opens up tons more possibilities. I like how you grabbed the colours and made them work for your pretty card, jjpeapea. My mind went to ink blending, but using supplies at hand is a wonderful way to meet this challenge. |
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 6, 2021 16:37:17 GMT
joblackford, I love the color scheme, and your card is beautiful! I agree with azcrafty that the flowers could easily be something other than sunflowers. Your ink shading is fabulous and ties everything together. jjpeapea, the colors on your card create a chilly winter feel, and your triple heat embossing looks perfect.
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Post by grammadee on Oct 6, 2021 16:38:32 GMT
Here is my card. The NEW item is the foam butterfly, from one of Simple Stories new fall collections. Also a new-to-me technique borrowed from a card kitbop shared over the weekend. The OLD items are the SU! stamp and the Andirondack ep.  CARDtober #6 by Gramma Dee, on Flickr |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 6, 2021 20:00:43 GMT
Thank you for the color challenge joblackford . I am liking the color variations in your card. I liked having specific color choices but a variety of shades. I sketched out a card and then after looking through my paper made a totally different card. I used some 4, 10, 25 and kind of 1 in the off-whiteness of the snowflake and sentiment. Sill liking azcrafty 's triple heat embossing. Ah, beautiful! I love that you were able to find papers to fit the colors in your stash  And I love the triple heat embossing too. I haven't tried that yet but looking at yours I think I have a snowflake that might be fun to play with. Thanks for playing along and I'll keep your comments in mind when I'm coming up with the rest of my color challenges. |
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 6, 2021 20:03:11 GMT
Lovely card, grammadee. The black silhouette of your stamped images really stand out against your shaded background. The colored butterfly pops in more ways than one. |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 6, 2021 20:03:50 GMT
Here is my card. The NEW item is the foam butterfly, from one of Simple Stories new fall collections. Also a new-to-me technique borrowed from a card kitbop shared over the weekend. The OLD items are the SU! stamp and the Andirondack ep. CARDtober #6 by Gramma Dee, on Flickr Ooh, what pretty inks! Ink blending was my first thought with this challenge too, but I wanted to make sure that no one would be left out by having a smaller stash of inks. Did you use Distress Oxides for your background? The butterfly is a wonderful little pop of teal/green, and always a nice motif for sympathy cards. Thanks for joining in ETA: all of the other sunflowers I've done with this kit have been in normal yellows and oranges (coming soon to a Wednesday near you! hint hint) but the influencer who convinced me to buy this kit used blues for one of his cards! And I've been watching someone make non-traditional floral Halloween cards with weird colors so I tried some purples with lime green leaves and went from there. |
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 6, 2021 21:09:12 GMT
I had papers in my stash that were the perfect colors of your palette (all colors that I love), and I was hoping to use it for one of the CARDtober challenges. The card base is an ombre in the greens, teals, and blues of your palette, so I used it for two of the mats (largest and smallest mats). The Graphic 45 paper had the pinks and purples, along with greens that matched the ombre paper. I used a pink shimmer cardstock for a mat, to help define the layers a bit more. I used bling freebies from Queen & Co. that have been in my stash for awhile for the 4 corners of the card and for the woman’s hat. It came together so quickly that I almost felt like I cheated.  |
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Post by grammadee on Oct 6, 2021 22:09:34 GMT
Awesome use of beautiful papers and other supplies, scrapnnana! I had meant to put some bling (really just a few dew drops) on my card, but forgot... |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 7, 2021 4:19:10 GMT
I had papers in my stash that were the perfect colors of your palette (all colors that I love), and I was hoping to use it for one of the CARDtober challenges. The card base is an ombre in the greens, teals, and blues of your palette, so I used it for two of the mats (largest and smallest mats). The Graphic 45 paper had the pinks and purples, along with greens that matched the ombre paper. I used a pink shimmer cardstock for a mat, to help define the layers a bit more. I used bling freebies from Queen & Co. that have been in my stash for awhile for the 4 corners of the card and for the woman’s hat. It came together so quickly that I almost felt like I cheated. I know what you mean about feeling like you cheated, but it's wonderful when something just works and comes together just right. The colors are perfect for the challenge and I love the little accents you've added. I've admired a lot of the G45 papers but I've never bought any. These are some of my favorite colors too. |
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Post by jjpeapea on Oct 9, 2021 13:31:30 GMT
grammadee beautiful blending. This card is perfect for sympathy. I too like a butterfly for symbolism on those kinds of cards. Your card is soft, soothing, just right. scrapnnana such a lovely card out of a color challenge. Those papers are special and the restrained little peek of pink shimmers sets it off so well.
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Post by azcrafty on Oct 9, 2021 23:44:50 GMT
jjpeapea love your color combo you choose for your card and happy to see that you are enjoying the embossing technique. That blue paper is beautiful with all the sparkles. grammadee beautiful blending,its just a perfect technique for a sympathy card. scrapnnana those pp are beautiful and just the perfect colors for this challenge. The green ombree paper is pretty. Love how you let the pp to shine and kept everything simple. I just got this MFT die and needed to cut it out to make sure it works , BTW I got this and the birthday one because of you joblackford, fell in love with the cards you made with the birthday one. Thank you for enabling me . The purple cs is a Michael's ombree colored paper pack I had for a long time. Little touches of holographic and pastel metallic cs. Played with the color strip placements they are about 1/4 inches wide. i think my favorite is the true ombree one.  CARDtober 2021 by Azcrafty, on Flickr
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Post by joblackford on Oct 10, 2021 1:13:18 GMT
... I just got this MFT die and needed to cut it out to make sure it works , BTW I got this and the birthday one because of you joblackford , fell in love with the cards you made with the birthday one. Thank you for enabling me . The purple cs is a Michael's ombree colored paper pack I had for a long time. Little touches of holographic and pastel metallic cs. Played with the color strip placements they are about 1/4 inches wide. i think my favorite is the true ombree one. CARDtober 2021 by Azcrafty, on Flickr Those are lovely. I love the purples, and yes, those big sentiment dies are really fun and make for great bold cards. I love the addition of the snowflake in the middle of the O. I'll have to try strips with my birthday one some time. |
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Post by nylene on Oct 14, 2021 20:52:32 GMT
joblackford , thank you for this challenge. I love the cards you do with that calendar paper, so was happy to use those pretty colors. You have love in the gallery. grammadee and azcrafty , such lovely cards. You have love in the gallery. jjpeapea , I love your pretty winter card. The colors are so soft and dainty with just one delicate snowflake. So very pretty. scrapnnana , how I love your use of the patterned paper in the colors for this challenge. Your card is gorgeous and I love the dainty center image. Great job! Well, I have to admit what a dork I am sometimes. I worked on my card, had it pretty much finished and wondered if I had done the twist. I went to the thread to get the twist, and accidentally went to the next week's card. It was to make a stamp and use it. So I tore off the back piece and made a stamp with rubber bands and stamping block, embossed it, added it to the card and looked up at the sample card to see that it was monochromatic, not the ombre colors. Duh! I was on the wrong challenge. I did use old and new products on this card. The butterfly die is old, but the purple printed paper is a newer purchase. (and of course, my background was stamped with a NEW stamp made today! LOL) So here is mine:  Butterfly hello card
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Post by azcrafty on Oct 14, 2021 23:23:02 GMT
nylene this is a beautiful card!! Love your 'new' background stamp its a great idea to heat emboss the image.
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Post by joblackford on Oct 15, 2021 0:32:18 GMT
Oops! But it's lovely nylene ! And I think you could take points for using both twists, couldn't you? Thank you for playing along so diligently, in any case. I just love those colors and the butterfly die cuts. I love that style of butterfly - I guess it's that classic monarch pattern, which was one of the more common butterflies I saw growing up. Rubber band stamping is a great idea! |
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Post by nylene on Oct 15, 2021 1:10:18 GMT
Thanks, joblackford. I will also do the other challenge. Just could have saved myself some work if I'd looked a little closer. LOL |
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Post by jjpeapea on Oct 15, 2021 13:54:32 GMT
nylene well thanks to you sharing your tries, it reminded me that I completely forgot the DIY twist. And I put the points in my "spot" already. Thanks for keeping me honest! I put some old-school kid snowflakes on the inside. They're harder to cut when you work small! When I was a teacher the kids would make these and put them on the windows. They claimed it brought luck for a snow day!  Edited to add: this is my snowflake card for challenge #13. Guess I should post it there too! 
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Post by iowagirl50147 on Oct 18, 2021 21:52:37 GMT
This was a struggle for me. Not sure why......  |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 19, 2021 2:08:43 GMT
This was a struggle for me. Not sure why...... I'm glad you persisted! I love these soft colors together and the patterns are so pretty. The geometric contrasting with the organic watercolory floral is very fun. Sometimes I have trouble using those watercolor styles even though I absolutely love them. |
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 19, 2021 2:27:21 GMT
azcrafty, I love the silver snowflake over the purple ombre. I haven’t seen paper like that before, but it’s fun, like a rainbow, but all purple. nylene, the purple and aqua together are gorgeous, and the butterfly cut in black and aqua make it a stunning card. iowagirl50147, it turned out lovely. I really like the colors and papers you chose, especially the floral sentiment.
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Post by azcrafty on Oct 19, 2021 2:53:21 GMT
scrapnnana thank you. The purple cs it comes from Michaels, they have ombree colored packs of 25. I just used 4 colors and cut 1/4" strips of them and layered them in order.
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Post by jjpeapea on Oct 21, 2021 16:17:14 GMT
iowagirl50147 Very pretty! I like how the embellishment ties the papers together both in color and the design of the patterned paper.
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Post by angel97701 on Nov 25, 2021 4:13:04 GMT
Finally! posting . . .
Used new stamp from Crafters Companion
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And I love the triple heat embossing too. I haven't tried that yet but looking at yours I think I have a snowflake that might be fun to play with. Thanks for playing along and I'll keep your comments in mind when I'm coming up with the rest of my color challenges. 
Edited to add: this is my snowflake card for challenge #13. Guess I should post it there too!
