Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Happy colors, happy thoughts


 I don't normally do bright colors, so this is a bit of a departure for me, but change is good, right?

The sketch for this came from the current Moving Along with the Times Challenge, and the colors come from the current Butterfly Challenge. 

The card started with the fun snippet of butterfly patterned paper. I found a couple of snippets of green and yellow, and trimmed them a bit to fit. Solid-colored squares are kind of boring, so I ran each through a different EF to add some texture. The sentiment was sent by a friend. It's edged in some Distress Oxide ink and is mounted on an angle with a similar-sized snippet of blue. That's a big (and old) chipboard button with baker's twine wrapped around the central stem.

This card is for these challenges:

Butterfly Challenge #174. (level one; the colors include canary yellow and Cyan, although I think Chartreuse and Chili Red are also present in this card.)

Can you Handle the Pressure -- use embossing

Moving Along with the Times #147 -- sketch

Pammie's Inky Pinkies 2240 -- anything goes

Snippet Playground #438 -- use snippets

Word Art Wednesday #563 -- anything goes

9 comments:

  1. Thanks for entering your gorgeous card into our 'sketch' challenge. The lovely bright colours are ideal today as where I live its overcast with dark rain clouds . Good luck and hope you can join us again next month.
    Diane Louise (Team leader at Moving Along With The Times) xx

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  2. Very pretty card, the butterfly paper actually looks 3d! Thank you for joining our challenge at Can You Handle The Pressure! We have a new challenge that is all about stencils, take a peek, I have given the link below!
    {Nellies Nest}
    {Can You Handle The Pressure}
    {Stencil Fun}

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  3. A nice zingy colourful card to go with that lovely sentiment. Great sketch too.

    Thanks for coming to play in the Snippets Playground! Please come up to the Treehouse Bar to enjoy a nice hot chocolate with extra marshmallows (and maybe a little nip of Baileys?) xxx

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  4. Perfect copy of the sketch, it looks wonderful and bright and happy, thanks for joining in at MAWTT, xxx

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  5. What a lovely card Sandy - really pretty and a lovely sentiment!

    Hugs

    Di xx

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  6. This is really bright and happy - great use of the sketch too,

    Thanks for playing along at MAWTT,

    Hugz Tinz

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  7. You could almost say Ihad chosen those colours for you to match your design paper!!. Love the bold result. Thankyou for coming and playing in the butterfly garden with me. Hugs Mrs A. .

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  8. Hi Sandy,
    what a delightful card and such lovely bright and cheerful colours.
    Love all the wonderful snippets of papers used.
    Thank you for joining the MAWTT Challenge.
    Lots of crafty love. Jenny L. DT

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  9. This is a great card design to use scraps.

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