ColorLab36

It's Thursday, got your Lab Coat?? Head on over the the ColorLab and play along with us this week! Here are the colors:

Poppy Parade, Early Espresso & Crumb Cake

And here is my card! I decided to go a little different way today!!

It seemed too easy to do something flowery with Poppy Parade as the primary color, so I decided to go masculine. I looked at Plane & Simple, them remembered I had this new stamp, Extreme Guitar. Thank you SAB! Note to self: order the Extreme Elements to go with it!! I had to "make do" for the background because I couldn't come up with any elements that didn't look super feminine! 

Ok, from the top! The card base is Early Espresso with a Poppy Parade layer behind Crumb Cake. On the Crumb Cake, I first pulled out my Oval craft frame and used the center to make a mask. I placed that in the center of the card to keep it clean. Then I grabbed my Wonderfully Worn background and inked it first in Crumb Cake. I stamped it twice, flipping top to bottom in between. Then I inked it with Early Espresso and stamped it across the center. I filled in the edges on both end. Next I grabbed the Color Spritzer and the Poppy Parade marker and spritzed away!! Now, remove the mask and grab the Square Lattice folder. Put your card stock in the folder. Place the folder over the Craft frame so that the "clean" oval matches up with the oval on the frame. Run through the Big Shot. The edges of the Crumb Cake are sponged with Early Espresso.

I stamped the Guitarist image in Poppy Parade and the "unique" definition from Define Your Life in Early Espresso. Seems like this would be a great encouragement card for teenagers??

Thanks for stopping by today!! Do stop over at the ColorLab to see what the other girls came up with and play along while you're there!!

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SU! Catalog Items used: 114950 Define Your Life * 115328 Extreme Guitar * 118533 Wonderfully Worn * 119686 Early Espresso Card Stock * 120953 Crumb Cake Card Stock * 119793 Poppy Parade Card Stock * 119801 In Color Markers * 119782 Poppy Parade Classic Ink * 119670 Early Espresso Classic Ink * 121030 Crumb Cake Classic Ink * 101610 Stamping Sponges * 113439 Big Shot * 119976 Square Lattice embossing Folder

Celebration Favorite Flower

Another inspiration from the challenge over at Stampin' Celebration. Look at their inspiration piece and you'll see why I HAD to play along!! 

Sunflowers!!  Here is what I came up with.

I started with my Daisies #2 Bigshot die and cut several different colors: Daffodil Delight, More Mustard and Cherry Cobbler. I knew I wanted more than one flower, and thought layering them together might work. I love a mix of colors too in my sunflowers and this is a good variety! I chose these colors based on the sunflowers I grow each summer. So, I layered together two of the medium size, then put two of the smaller of a different color, then an Antique Brad for the center. Card base is Early Espresso with a background of Naturals Ivory stamped with the Wonderfully Worn background. Espresso striped ribbon across the bottom with the "favorite" definition from Define Your Life, punched with the Wide Oval and layered on the new Decorative Label punch.

Off to do something productive!  Think that yard work is calling my name, need to do some Fall clean up.  Luckily it looks nice out and hopefully isn't too warm!  Thanks for stopping by!!

SU! Catalog items used on this card: 114950 Define Your Life * 118533 Wonderfully Worn * 119686 Early Espresso CS * 101849 Naturals Ivory CS * 119670 Early Espresso Classic Ink * 117273 Antique Brads * 119961 1-1/4" Striped Early Espresso Ribbon * 104430 Stampin' Dimensionals * 119859 Wide Oval Punch * 113439 Big Shot * 114520 Daisies #2 Die * Holiday Mini 120907 Decorative Label Punch