Out of my comfort zone colors!

Have you ever shied away from certain colors? I do - specifically orange, unless it's for a Halloween card! I decided to step outside my comfort zone and try to create something with the color orange and pair it with a real in your face spring green. Here is the result.

I did the scallops with my slit punch on 1 1/2 inch strips of the orange and green card stock. Stacked them up and placed them on top and bottom of this card. I found some really nice gold self adhesive rhinestone stickers at M's and used them in each of the scallops and in the corners of the main panel. This card turned out very bright, but also very springy! It definitely took me out of my comfort zone - and that is a good thing to do now and then! =)

Supplies:

Stamps - Penny Black Salutations

Versamagic ink

Palette Jardin Moss and Noir ink

Gold rhinestones

Orange and green card stock by Core'dinations

Card Sketch Tuesday - #107

Happy Tuesday everyone! Here is sketch #107. This one gave me fits! I had this great layout in my head - but my colors were just not working together on my first two cards!

I ended up doing a monochromatic version that I was finally satisfied with - sorta. I so wanted to used some delicious designer paper with this sketch - but I just couldn't find the right color card stock to match anything that I was working with today. The mojo just wasn't flowing today.

So, show me what you can do with this sketch. It has to be better than my sample! LOL =) Leave me a comment or link and I'll post your creation on my blog.

Supplies:

Stamp - The Angel Company - aged ornaments

Ink - versamagic spring pansy and eggplant

Clear embossing powder

Core'dinations card stock in purples

Kreaxions corner punch

Card Sketch #94 - It's all about....

Hi everyone! Here's sketch #94 - with Halloween right around the corner - it's all about the candy corn! By the way, where in the world did September go?
I just got my shipment of oval nestabilities in and just had to play around with them! They are awesome - I only have one Marvy oval punch and I just never used it that often. Probably because I had to drag out the oval coluzzle to layer it with and I can never get it to look good. That snip you have to take and then sand down is for the birds!
The sentiment on this is computer generated - I saw a stamp very similar to this, but felt that it was just too expensive to justify using it just once a year. So, I decided I could just print the saying up on my computer - font is CK Chiller and it's printed on white card stock. The candy corn is colored with Copic Ciao Markers.

I hope everyone is having a great week - I'm now in Denver on business! Glad this is the last trip for a while! Getting up at O dark thirty to catch a plane is not fun! ;-0









Supplies:
Stamp - Great Impressions
Orange and Yellow card stock - Core'dinations
Copic Ciao Markers
Orange Grosgrain ribbon
Palette Noir ink

Card Sketch #90 - Halloween

Good day everyone! Here's sketch #90, measuring the normal A2 size.

This is a retired TAC image that I just think is adorable. He is colored with prisma color pencils and blended with OMS. I also used a few Copic's on the smaller details like the moon and the stars. I picked up the pebble/bubble black paper at my LSS last year thinking it would make a cool back ground for a halloween card.

The Sentiment is from Alota Rubber Stamps. I added an outline with Copic Cool Gray marker and then added the dots around it so that it went with the main image. I used the ticket punch to punch the corners and added some mini black brads. I found some purple grosgrain ribbon in my stash that matched the Core'dinations card stock that I layered everything with.

I used the same image and a horizontal sentiment to complete the sketch over at SCS. I just loved how the colors went together, so I stuck with it! The polka dots are a stamp from Clear Dollar stamps. I stamped it in Palette Noir then went over them with a black glaze gel pen. This made them stand out and match that wonderful pepple/bubble black CS in the back ground.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. I will be posting the winner of my blog candy sometime on Saturday.

A few TAC cards to share

Hello everyone! I wanted to share two sketch challenge cards that I did over at SCS that use TAC stamps.

This one is Butterfly Bits. I stamped the butterflies in Memories Muted Violet chalk ink, that was stamped off once. Then came back with the same ink full strength to do the flowers. I added liquid pearls in white opal to the centers. The back ground strips are done using my direct to paper polished stone technique. If you want to see my tutorial on that, click here. The back ground paper is a pearl sparkle from paper accents.

This next one is done using the Everyday Events stamp set. It's colored with prisma color pencils and blended with OMS. I also used the black glaze gel pen for the centers of the flowers in the window box. The cloud back ground was air brushed with Copic Ciao markers and a cloud stencil. As you can see I used my nestabilities rectangle dies to cut out the main image. Paper is from the Core'dinations line. The red prima flowers were added to match the window box flowers. I had to cut a flower apart that looks like a leaf, to make one.

These sketches are from SCS - numbers 184 and 185 and can be seen here.

I'll be leaving for a weeks vacation on Sunday - will post another card sketch before I go tho!