Blue, Green, and Brown

I love Fridays! I should amend that to say that I love Fridays when I’m not working the weekends! LOL! But, today I love Fridays because it’s time for the weekly Blogger’s Challenge! Today’s challenge was a color challenge: to use blue, green and brown. My go-to color combo is Stampin’ Up’s Marina Mist, Pear Pizazz, and Soft Suede, so you’d think that this would have been easy, right? Wrong … I made 3 cards before I was finally satisfied with my card LOL!

I have to say that I do indeed love this card! The base is Soft Suede, and then I matted the white textured image with Marina Mist. The stamp set for my image is the Level 2 hostess set Fast & Fabulous.

I used markers to color my stamp, then used my ink pads and blender pens to color in the flowers. The centers of the flowers were originally pearls, but since I was “pearlizing” my butterfly, I decided to “glitterize” my flowers. I used one of the fine cosmo glitter colors, probably the turquoise color. Do you know what happens when I get into glitter?! “Uh Mom, you have glitter on your cheeks.” ” You have glitter in your hair.” “Uh Mom, what’s that sparkly stuff all over your clothes?!” “Uh Mom, have you been playing in the glitter again?!” Yep, that’s what I’ll be hearing for the next 12 hours. It doesn’t even come off in the shower!! LOL!

Here’s a closeup picture of my card:

Stamps: Fast and Fabulous (Level 2 Hostess)
Ink: markers: Marina Mist, Soft Suede, Pear Pizazz
Accessories: Finial Press Textured Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, silver brads, Eyelet Border Punch, Turquoise Fine Cosmo Glitter with glue pen, Marina Mist 5/8″ Satin Ribbon (I used the Bow-Easy that my sister generously hooked me up with!), Basic Pearls.

Thanks for looking! If you need any supplies to duplicate this or any card, visit my online store HERE!

Jeannie

14 Comments

Lisa Somerville on September 17, 2010 at 6:50 pm

How pretty, wonderful choice of Embossing Folders, love the soft colors.

Tami Black on September 17, 2010 at 6:54 pm

Jeanne,

I love the colors you used, a new combo for me. I think this card is outstanding — I'm definitely casing!

Marsha Fisher on September 17, 2010 at 7:20 pm

This is so soft and pretty! I'm with Tammy…case time! 😀

Ida on September 17, 2010 at 8:09 pm

So pretty with the lovely watercolored image and the elegant embossing.

Kimberly Gajewski on September 17, 2010 at 9:23 pm

This is so soft and pretty Jeannie! The embossing looks great! I think that I'm going to NEED this folder as well…lol! 😀

Shelly Schmidt on September 17, 2010 at 9:24 pm

Very pretty. I love the softness of your card- pretty flowers. TFS

Clara on September 17, 2010 at 11:06 pm

Very pretty card Jeannie! I really like the soft colors you used for it.

Stampin in the suburbs on September 18, 2010 at 7:23 am

These colors are great together and ribbon is beautiful. I love this card.

MJ on September 18, 2010 at 8:24 am

This is stunning, so soft and pretty. What a fabulous color combo!

BarbaraW on September 18, 2010 at 11:46 am

Beautiful, elegant card.

Lori on September 20, 2010 at 12:01 am

So elegant! Love the shades of colors you used.

JP Card Crazy on September 20, 2010 at 4:05 pm

So pretty and elegant your color combination is perfect.

Lori Rider on September 22, 2010 at 10:08 am

This is really pretty – love your soft colors and image! Thanks so much for playing along with the Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge!

Anonymous on September 22, 2010 at 10:30 am

This is such a lovely card–loove the soft colors you chose. The butterfly is a perfect companion for it.
Glad I got to play too–was not sure if I would–tough weekend. Hugs, Nola

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