3 in 1 Challenges

I have been very time short this week so I am making one card for a couple of challenges, something I rarely ever do as I simply love making cards and usually do them all individually.  However, I am back at work now so am coming home really tired but I will get back to normal soon.  So the challenges are Colour Q and Freshly Made Sketches.  I then remembered about MFT Summer School so considered how I could throw in another lesson too.

When I first saw this colour challenge over at Colour Q this week I thought was 'no way' I was going to be able to do this as the colours are so far off my normal spectrum palate but I think I did a pretty good job.

The colour combo for the weekly challenge was Early Espresso, which I used in the sentiment, Pumpkin Pie, which I used on the My Favorite Things Pinstripe stamp at the far edge, Rich Razzleberry with the heart and Taken With Teal, which I substituted for Island Indigo where I used Cheesecloth stamp from MFT also.  The Island Indigo looks more navy on this photo but it is quite a good teal replacement in real life.  The other orange is Distress Ink Dried Marigold where I used with the Sweater Stitch stamp from MFT.

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Meanwhile at Freshly Made Skches the challenge was this design.

So I flipped it round to make my card.  I could have followed the design in its entirety but where's the fun in that lol.

Lastly, over at My Favorite Things Summer School Symmetrical and Asymmetrical was a lesson and I had already submitted a symmetrical card, so another challenge for me was to do an asymmetrical card.  I think I managed it.

I used the flag from the Die-namics Blueprints 18 set and added rhinestones to embellish.

So great fun meeting 3 challenges in 1 I hope you think I met them too.

To go over to the Colour Q blog click the link and to go to the Freshly Made Sketches blog click that link also.  To see some other Summer School lessons click the My Favorite Things link.  I hope you have fun checking out all the other creations.  See you tomorrow. Take care of you.

Pauline x

TGIF Weekly Challenge

This week's challenge over at TGIF is an exciting colour combo that most would likely resist as there are two very strong colours.

I love strong colours so this combo for me was perfect.  All my products today are Stampin' Up! with the exception of the Round Rectangle Stitched die from Die-namics.  I used the Pansy, Blossom and Petite flower punches with Peal Basic Jewels in the centre of each silver foil paper accent, with smaller one's accenting the bottom of the card.   The flowers were all raised with Dimensionals as was the sentiment.

Initially I only had two flowers ignoring the rule of thirds and thought this looked fine as the sentiment was also white so that was three shapes, but I then decided to add the third flower.  It would be great to hear what you think, 2 or 3 flowers.  Both ways look good for me.  Fence and sit springs to mind lol.

Anyhow Wimbledon beckons. Why not head on over to TGIF Challenges blog and check out other gorgeous cards and projects.  Click here

Have a fun day.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

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