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Saturday, July 16, 2022

Guest Designer Color Hues #45: Peach & Gray

Hello and happy Saturday. I am posting today as the Guest Designer at Color Hues #45, where the colors are Peach & Gray.

This is such a lovely color scheme, and I immediately thought of creating some peach flowers. This card actually was quite quick and easy to make. I pulled out a very old PTI stamp (Bigger Blooms, I think) and stamped one corner in DO Dried Marigold. Flipped the card over and stamped the opposite corner. It looked a little flat, so I used colored pencils to add a bit of darker peach to the flowers. Then I cut the center out of the panel and popped it up just a bit for some added dimension.

This is where I confess that for my first version of the card, I got the colors wrong. For some reason, I had it in my mind that the colors were Coral and Gray. No, I did not check the email before starting my card! So, at least the card was very quick and easy to make, and once I realized that Coral was the wrong color, it was very easy to redo using peach.

A very happy mistake, because now I have two cards!

I big 'THANK YOU' to the kind folks at Color Hues for having me as their Guest Designer for this fun challenge. I would encourage you to head over to the Color Hues blog to see the lovely inspiration provided by their Design Team.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

PTI February 2015 Blog Hop

I've got a quick post for this month's PTI Blog Hop. I created a panel using lots of water and reinkers in Enchanted Evening, Royal Velvet, Autumn Rose and Tropical Teal. I covered it with a die cut from my Quatrefoil Cover Plate. I was kind of going for a direct replica of the inspiration piece.

I am also linking up at Simon Says Monday No Rules.

Happy Hopping

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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

CASology Week 128: DATE

Happy first Tuesday of 2015. My girls are back at school, and I am so ready to get back to my normal routines. Tuesday for me means another CASology challenge. This week, our cue word is DATE.

I have to admit to struggling with this cue word a little. I looked up DATE in the dictionary, hoping for some inspiration, and decided to go with the romantic sort of date. This card is for when you have the most fantastic date ever. I love the way the white and red look together. The hearts are cut from one die, which I think is so clever--a bunch of hearts arranged in the shape of a heart.

So, will you play along this week? I sure hope so. How does the word DATE inspire you? Check out the beautiful designs from the CASology Design Team members and see how they were inspired by DATE. Don't forget to keep your card Clean and Simple.

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Gillian Ross
Hazel Hodgkins

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg (that's me)

Judy Marino

Kimberly Wiener
Kymona Tracey

Guest Designer: Nonni

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

CASology Week #88: Lucky

It's time for another CASology challenge. This week, our cue word is LUCKY. What do you think of when you see the word LUCKY? I looked through my supplies and then remembered that I had a 'lucky' word die that I have never used. It came with 'happy', which is the word I wanted, and I forgot all about lucky. I was lucky I remembered about that die. (ba dum bum) Have some fun with this cue word, and then please link up your creation on the CASology blog by Monday 3/31 at noon (CST).

I adhered my white die cut 'lucky' onto a piece of Pure Poppy, cut with Lil Inker's On the Diagonal die. I also embossed my card base with the largest Lil Inker's Stitched Rectangle die. I love the look of those faux stitches. It gives the white space just a little something. I added a trio of flowers and some leaves from Bigger Blooms, and finished the sentiment with a stamp from Wonderful Words Additions.

Since CASology is a Clean And Simple challenge, I thought it would be helpful to review some things to keep in mind when creating a CAS design:

1. One main image
2. Lots of open space (uncluttered)
3. Limited layers & embellishments
4. Quick & easy to recreate

You can see that my card meets all 4 criteria above.

So, what do you think of when you see the word LUCKY?

Check out the beautiful designs from the CASology Design Team members and see how they were inspired by LUCKY. Then, please play along and link your creation to the CASology blog by Monday 3/31 at noon (CST).

Don't forget to keep your card Clean and Simple.