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Color Challenged in a Color Challenge

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PPC 228 swallowtail

For my card-making/stamping escapades this week, I sure was stumped on a color challenge.

I have been enjoying participating in various card challenges as a way to expand my creativity.  The challenges typically give you a sketched layout, an inspiration photo, a particular embellishment that must be used, or a grouping of 3 -4 colors to incorporate into your project.

So…. after feeling a little bit proud (woohoo! I’m easily excited) for being recognized as a “Cut Above” the past two weeks – last week for the Paper Players Challenge #207 Button Challenge (thanks Andrea!) and the week before in the Paper Players Challenge #206 Sketch Challenge (thanks Claire!), I just couldn’t figure out what to do with the Paper Players Color Challenge #208.  I actually made three different cards three nights this week until I settled on the watercolor swallowtail card above to submit.

The challenge was to incorporate 4 colors into your project:  Calypso Coral, Blushing Bride, Hello Honey, and Basic Gray.  Here they are:

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I was having trouble being creative with these colors.

This was my first attempt:

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Didn’t love it….

Then I made this one:

Joy PPCUsed the same colors….  different techniques….

Didn’t love it….

Almost gave up…

Then this one came to me:

PPC 228 swallowtail

Still the same colors…. Yet more different techniques….

As I look at all three, I see such a vast difference in all three despite the same four colors being used.

For the one I chose, I watercolored the inks on water color paper with a water brush starting with the blushing bride on top, then calypso coral, and finally hello honey.  After it dried, I stamped the swallowtail on with Memento black ink, then outlined and shaded with some glittery dazzling effects.  I then simply mounted that on the gray card stock, and then onto a white base.  With all the glitz of the butterfly, I thought I should keep the rest muted and simple.

So now I have three cards I can use – all because I was seriously color challenged in this week’s color challenge.  Thanks Nance!

Cheers & Hugs,

Jodi

25 Things that Make Me Happy

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never too much happy mojo monday 357

A Short and Random List of Just Some of the Things that make me HAPPY:

  1. Lots of people in my home
  2. The phone ringing at 7:03 am – and my Dad on the other end saying “Good Morning”
  3. Marty’s laugh
  4. Seeing my boys in love
  5. Seven Deadly Zins Red Zinfandel
  6. When my boss sends a reply email to a project I’ve done with a one word reply:  “Perfect”
  7. Mikey’s tail wagging and the greeting I get EVERY time I come home – even if I was only gone 10 minutes
  8. Girlfriends – deep conversations and belly laughs
  9. Sunshine and blue skies
  10. Bombay & Tonic with lime and lots of ice on a hot evening
  11. Sending a card to a friend “just because”
  12. My first cup of coffee in the morning with sweet Italian cream
  13. Text messages from Rob and Ella
  14. Brady Bunch songs
  15. The beach
  16. Tight hugs
  17. Smiles from strangers
  18. Christmas music
  19. The smell of Apricot Nut Bread – Grandma’s recipe
  20. Baking cookies for friends and family
  21. Thursday date night to John’s Bar
  22. Finding and giving just the perfect gift
  23. Allowing myself to get lost in a good book
  24. Marty snoring – because that means he is there beside me
  25. People saying “Love ya”

You can NEVER have too much happy – right?!

never too much happy mojo monday 357 flat

So I had fun making this card for Mojo Monday Challenge #357 and using this Stampinup Yippee-Skippee Stamp sentiment:  “You Can Never have Too Much Happy,” which I heat embossed with white on Blackberry Bliss cardstock.

This is the sketch we were to follow:

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I used some Park Lane DSP, some more of the new In Colors: Hello Honey and Tangelo Twist with some classic Old Olive, and stamped and cut out the flower and leaf from SU Flower Patch.  I embellished with a few of my homemade faux enamel dots, and the finishing touch was a spritz of Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (which I picked up on our brief shopping trip to Hobby Lobby this weekend).  Fun!

never too much happy mojo monday close up shimmer mistI love how the light catches the Shimmer mist, but it was hard to capture in a photograph.  I can’t wait to share this with someone and hopefully make them happy.

Cheers & Hugs,

Jodi