Finally getting around to the Color Challenge from Christmas day! The sample card by Christy S (My Mom Said.... by Christy S. at Splitcoaststampers) was so appealing to me because even though the colors are very traditional Christmas colors, her card wasn't Christmas-y at all. So I made it my personal challenge too, to make a card that wasn't for Christmas. Christy said her inspiration for the card was a Fazoli's ad with similar colors. Well, my DD's have had a box of candy canes sitting on the desk by the computer monitor for a week, and coincidentally the box is the same colors as the challenge too! So it was inspiring me.
Then I remembered this card by Michelle Boyer (AugVSNE Non SU by Shel9999 at Splitcoaststampers) It was one of the very first cards I ever put in my faves, because I loved the striped background. I even PM'd her and asked how she did it, and she told me it was just ink taken from the lid of her pad and painted on with an aqua painter! So that's what I ended up doing for my card for this challenge!
Thanks for looking, and reading all the way through my Mothermark-ish story! (Luv ya' Cindy!)
I used a Versamarker and Iridescent Ice EP on the cake and stars... if I had more time this morning I would have used Crystal Effects and Dazzling Diamonds instead. I have no patience to wait for things to dry, though! The stars are from my snowflake Cuttlebug die, because I also have no patience for cutting out tiny things! Cutting out the cake was the extent for me today.
Registered: July 21, 2004 Location: in the warm Southwest Posts: 30313
Thu, Dec 27, 2007 @ 9:39 PM
love the Aquapainters...they are even more useful than I thought, TFS that fun BG technique. LOVE the Christmas-y colors on the non-Christmas-y card too!
------------------------------ Melissa (Muh LEE sa) aka straight s/talker loves stamping the CAS way my GALLERY
Registered: April 20, 2006 Location: The Burrow with the rest of the Weasleys Posts: 15474
Sat, Dec 29, 2007 @ 9:21 AM
Lovely job on this!!! I think everyone has that cute polka-dotted ribbon but me I'll have to find some before I move. Thanks for playing on the color challenge and doing the extra challenge of making a non-Christmas card, it turned out GREAT!