Saturday, October 20, 2012

Never give up

My motto for today...Never Give Up!  I woke up to a cold, rainy, windy morning and wanted nothing more to crawl back into bed and skip out the 10K I had signed up to run.  But a little voice kept saying, "Don't give up, you can do this!"  So I dressed in some of my warmer running gear, laced up my shoes and set off for the 2012 Crush Run.  And I am oh-so-thankful that I did!  The clouds parted just as the race started and we had a beautiful run though some of our beautiful vineyards.

This motto also kept me going while I was working on my latest card challenges.  My friend Katie, over at Sweet N Spiffy, picked out a fun sketch and a tricky color combo for our latest creation challenge!  She went with a sketch from Pink Paper Bakery and the color combo comes from colourQ.  Take a look!

I'm not gonna lie...this color combo was a tricky one!  (I did have to substitute a couple colors, but they were pretty close.)  At first, all I could think about was a Halloween card, but I'm kind of burned out on Halloween.   I played around with a few ideas and finally settled on this:




It is hard to tell in the picture, but the little star burst flowers are stamped in both Pumpkin Pie and Tangerine Tango ink.  This kind of reminds me of a picture you would see in a Chinese restaurant or something :D

Supplies Used:
Paper ~ Whisper White, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Lucky Limeade
Ink ~ Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Lucky Limeade, Jet Black StazOn
Stamp Sets ~ Summer Silhouettes, Sweet Essentials

This was quite the challenge for me, but I'm glad I stuck it out and didn't give up!

Happy Stamping!

6 comments:

  1. I'm so glad you tried it out too! Your card turned out so pretty! When I first saw the color combo, I immediately thought Halloween as well. Good for you for challenging yourself! Thanks for trying out our challenge and sharing with all of us at the Pink Paper Bakery!

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  2. This is such a pretty card, great design. Thank you so much for joining us this week at the colourQ!

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  3. Wowee friend, this card is lovely! I love that flower image stamp, it looks awesome popping out from all the white, and the flower overlapping the 2 banners. I know we had to put some extra effort into working with this color combo but it was totally worth it. I knew it would be fun to see just how different our creations would be, and you never let me down! Thanks for keeping me going (and giving me a firm "NO" when I was wanting to chicken out and pick new ones!)

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  4. Such a pretty card with this lovely Summer Silhouette set! So glad you were able to play with the CQC colors this week!

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  5. I'm so glad you didn't give up on both your run and this great card. So pretty.

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  6. Great card - cool use of the colours. Thanks for joining us at Colour Q this week.

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