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Thursday, March 5, 2015
Enjoy Your Special Day
I liked the combination of colors for the Color My Heart Color Dare #131, so I decided to make another generic card "Enjoy Your Special Day" and enter it as a second card for this challenge. Challenge Colors: Daisy White, Sunset, Honey, Olive and Outdoor Denim. The background drop is what they call a Smack Down procedure and I used Honey and Sunset Inks. I used the flower from CTMH Stamp Set D1602 "A Budding Friendship-Seasons and Nature" and did the smack down procedure on each corner of the daisy white cardstock. YouTube has several tutorials on this procedure and you put your own spin on it. The same stamp set was used for the two flowers (Sunset and Honey), leaves and stem (olive) and then fussy-cut and raised them with 3D thin foam tape. In the center of each flower added an olive daily embellishment from my sewing ribbons and an olive gem in the middle and scattered a few of the small flowers on the card. The background behind the smack down is outdoor denim cardstock.
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6 comments:
What a cheerful card! Smack down gives such nice results and texture and you're creating your own designer paper.
Fun card, Sue. I especially love the stamped panel. So much movement! Thanks for joining the Color Dare this week.
Another fabulous card. Love the "smack down" technique. Thank you for your inspirations this week with Color Dare.
What a fun, creative card! Thanks for joining us at Color My Heart Color Dare.
Beautiful! I love the random stamping. Thank you for inspiring us at Color My Heart Challenge Blog.
This is so pretty. I love your cutouts! Thanks for playing again at Color My Heart!
Sarah
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