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Post by joblackford on Oct 3, 2020 2:14:14 GMT
Hi folks 👋 I’m hosting Saturdays with an easy color scheme/mood board challenge each week. Or at least I hope it will be easy! I was inspired by a video I saw a while back to make cards using cactus/succulent greens with light and bright pinks. I chose to buy this collection from Damask Love because they had that combination, plus a bright yellow that added more cheerfulness. So that’s the challenge - use greens and pinks. Easy  Or if you want to use my sample as a jumping off point in another way, that’s cool too. Twist: add some ombré! CARDtober green pink by jo.blackford, on Flickr Here is the video that inspired this color scheme: |
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Post by azcrafty on Oct 3, 2020 2:40:09 GMT
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Post by joblackford on Oct 3, 2020 2:41:09 GMT
Keeping it simple this year! Thanks |
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Post by grammadee on Oct 3, 2020 14:07:43 GMT
Cute card, joblackford. When I haul out my Christmas card making supplies, I will see what I can do with those colours. Pretty sure there are some pastels in there, and pink & green is not that far from red & green, right? And I DO love ombre. Thanks for linking the video--a reminder to me that there is more than one way to fold a card LOL. Still working on my blending techniques, even with inks, and I want to try laying down the light all over before bringing in the darker colours. See if that works better than what I have been doing. |
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Post by grammadee on Oct 3, 2020 16:19:35 GMT
Here ya go, joblackford: Went with a slimline Christmas card. Found a couple of pinkish elements from an old Hunky Dory card kit. Did my best to blend 3 Oxide inks on the card base...  CARDtober #3 by Gramma Dee, on Flickr |
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Post by scrappyrabbit on Oct 3, 2020 17:55:08 GMT
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Post by joblackford on Oct 3, 2020 18:05:12 GMT
Went with a slimline Christmas card. Found a couple of pinkish elements from an old Hunky Dory card kit. Did my best to blend 3 Oxide inks on the card base... Awesome. You made pink and green work for Christmas! I like it. The blending looks great - did it give you troubles? Do you remember which colors you used? I'm not sure if I have 3 oxide greens. I stopped collecting after a while. |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 3, 2020 18:07:10 GMT
I used a green card base and a pink skull pattern paper! Pink and green for Halloween? That's very cool and unexpected. The Halloween elements you used are really pretty and I love that skull paper. Great job, and thanks for playing along |
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Post by scrappyrabbit on Oct 3, 2020 18:12:45 GMT
I used a green card base and a pink skull pattern paper! Pink and green for Halloween? That's very cool and unexpected. The Halloween elements you used are really pretty and I love that skull paper. Great job, and thanks for playing along Thank you! The skull paper is from the Recollections 6x6 per pad called Pinkaboo. The stickers I also picked up from Michaels; they didn’t have a name but they definitely coordinate with that paper. I am determined to take advantage of cardtober to do my Halloween cards! |
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Post by grammadee on Oct 3, 2020 18:17:27 GMT
Went with a slimline Christmas card. Found a couple of pinkish elements from an old Hunky Dory card kit. Did my best to blend 3 Oxide inks on the card base... Awesome. You made pink and green work for Christmas! I like it. The blending looks great - did it give you troubles? Do you remember which colors you used? I'm not sure if I have 3 oxide greens. I stopped collecting after a while. Lucky Clover, Evergreen Bough, and Cracked Pistachio.
I don't think the trouble was with them, but with me. And my blending brush which seemed to be retaining some of the previous inks I had used it for. I have only two, and one I use for cooler colours like green and blue and the other for warmer colours like red & orange. I have never washed the brush, just wiped off excess ink on a scrap paper. But I think it might be time to give this one a bath! |
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Post by grammadee on Oct 3, 2020 18:19:03 GMT
I used a green card base and a pink skull pattern paper! very cool Halloween card! Who knew there was pink skull paper!?! |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 3, 2020 18:29:02 GMT
Awesome. You made pink and green work for Christmas! I like it. The blending looks great - did it give you troubles? Do you remember which colors you used? I'm not sure if I have 3 oxide greens. I stopped collecting after a while. Lucky Clover, Evergreen Bough, and Cracked Pistachio.
I don't think the trouble was with them, but with me. And my blending brush which seemed to be retaining some of the previous inks I had used it for. I have only two, and one I use for cooler colours like green and blue and the other for warmer colours like red & orange. I have never washed the brush, just wiped off excess ink on a scrap paper. But I think it might be time to give this one a bath! Ah yeah, it might be time for a bath. I often use a dampened paper towel to help keep them clean without actually going all out washing them. Actually I just got some knock-off rainbow makeup brushes so I'll have a visual reminder of which brush goes with which color but I haven't done any ink blending in a while. I think I have 2/3 of those colors, maybe the 3rd in regular distress. |
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Post by kkrenn on Oct 3, 2020 20:00:48 GMT
Ok, this one will be a real challenge for me! Green and Pink are NEVER my go to colors. Let me see what I can come up with!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2020 20:03:50 GMT
I love pinks and greens together! Here's my card for this challenge.  |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 3, 2020 20:15:34 GMT
I love pinks and greens together! Here's my card for this challenge. Ooh, I love those shades, and your clean and simple style. The texture of the background really bring this card up a notch. |
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Post by azcrafty on Oct 4, 2020 1:08:44 GMT
I always loved this Waffle Flower stamp set. I already had my hero arts ink cubes so I used them to water color this image. Not loving the way the inks didn't blend well, very difficult to color with them. I did use the ink cubes to swipe them on the cardstocks for the background. Ombre style!!!!  CARDtober #3 by Azcrafty, on Flickr |
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 4, 2020 3:52:07 GMT
grammadee, your slimline Christmas card is charming. It’s a great combination of color and design. scrappyrabbit, your Halloween card with the pink and black is a fun twist on the usual Halloween colors. hate spiders in real life, but I love spider webs on Halloween cards for some reason. CoffeeCrafter, I love your florals on the embossed background. azcrafty, your succulents are beautiful, and I love the ombre background. That is a cool die that you used.
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 4, 2020 3:58:52 GMT
I didn’t have a lot of time to craft today, so I went for a quick project. I used a Simple Stories cut apart, a Queen & Co. die, and made a shaker Christmas card. The hardest part of this challenge was finding a green card stock that matched the green in the background paper, for cutting the tree outline that tops the shaker. I had one sheet of the right green in a ridiculously huge stash. The bling is also from Queen & Co.  |
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Post by grammadee on Oct 4, 2020 4:08:01 GMT
scrapnnana, that shaker card is really pretty. I like that the tree with the shaker is part of a little forest. I have trouble matching greens. Seems that I have 50 green cs sheets, yet never have the shade I need.
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Post by Linda on Oct 4, 2020 16:48:56 GMT
joblackford - love the colour challenge! Your cactus card is lovely grammadee - pretty card with the non-traditional Christmas colours! scrappyrabbit - pink skull paper - who would have thought? Great Halloween card! CoffeeCrafter - love the texture and your beautiful flowers azcrafty - beautiful colouring and that background is neat scrapnnana - love the trees esp. the shaker! I used Feb 2020 Sheetload as my sketch and ended up with 5 cards - 4 from the sketch and 1 with leftovers - all from scraps. 
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Post by jjpeapea on Oct 4, 2020 17:54:38 GMT
joblackford , thanks for the challenge. As you see, I loved your cactus card. grammadee your base looks great, you really made those colors sing. You're loving the slimlines, eh? scrappyrabbit , pink skulls, I love it. Spooky and pink, oh wow. CoffeeCrafter lovely, crisp and elegant scrapnnana , yes, a shaker! I love a good shaker card. Glad you found that paper. But geesh, "quick project", it would take me quite awhile to make that card. linda , I am enjoying the Sheetload challenge each month. Yours is cute and a breath of spring and summer. So I could NOT get the challenger's cactuses out of my head. I thought they were so cute. I wanted to be more creative but I knew I had this paper and kept being fixated on the challenge card.  
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Post by Linda on Oct 4, 2020 18:19:44 GMT
great take on the cacti - looks great! jjpeapea |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 4, 2020 19:16:24 GMT
I didn’t have a lot of time to craft today, so I went for a quick project. I used a Simple Stories cut apart, a Queen & Co. die, and made a shaker Christmas card. It doesn't look like a quick project, but I guess those Q&Co shakers must really make shakers easier. Awesome to see another Christmas card with this colors scheme. I used Feb 2020 Sheetload as my sketch and ended up with 5 cards - 4 from the sketch and 1 with leftovers - all from scraps. Great use of scraps! Very pretty cards. I really do love that combo of two shades of pink with green. So I could NOT get the challenger's cactuses out of my head. I thought they were so cute. I wanted to be more creative but I knew I had this paper and kept being fixated on the challenge card. Hey, whatever works! I got so fixated on the original inspiration that I bought paper and stickers that I definitely didn't need. I love your jaunty little cactuses and the sentiment. I'm glad you used a paper you had and loved and that you played along |
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Post by lynnek on Oct 13, 2020 15:45:49 GMT
 I too could not get the cactus out of my mind and I had this set of cactus stamps that I bought but had not used. I tried the ombré with distress oxides. |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 13, 2020 17:57:45 GMT
lynnek I love them! Those stamps are really pretty and the ink ombre came out really well. I think I have that same stencil. I should try doing an ombre and using a nice bold stamp/die cut. It looks really good.
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Post by gale w on Oct 19, 2020 21:18:33 GMT
Finally got ONE cardtober card done. I just can't get in the mood this year. Anyway, hero arts stamps, lawn fawn paper, copic markers, mft and lil inker dies. This was a fun challenge!!  |
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Post by scrapnnana on Oct 19, 2020 21:28:04 GMT
In the mood or not, you made a great card, gale w ! I’m glad you joined in the fun at least once. I hope you get in the mood again before the end. |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 19, 2020 21:56:17 GMT
Finally got ONE cardtober card done. I just can't get in the mood this year. Anyway, hero arts stamps, lawn fawn paper, copic markers, mft and lil inker dies. This was a fun challenge!! I'm glad you decided to play with us a little bit. TBH if I wasn't hosting I would've done zero cards based on prompts. I'm energy-challenged this year. But yay! you did it. I love the shades of pink and green you used, and I just noticed it's a Christmas card. I wouldn't be surprised if that meets another card challenge, using non traditional holiday colors. The cactus is great. I'm even more in love with pink + cactus designs after seeing all these cool variations on that theme. |
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Post by gramma on Oct 19, 2020 22:20:06 GMT
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Post by joblackford on Oct 20, 2020 2:17:24 GMT
gramma those are so pretty! Such a great mix of patterns and colors, and such pretty sentiments. I'm always impressed by your productivity.
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Or if you want to use my sample as a jumping off point in another way, that’s cool too.
