CR84FN #69

Welcome back to CR84FN Color Challenge! I am so glad to be back, especially with these fabulous colors! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season with your family and friends, and are looking forward to 2013! Yahoo!!!!

On to our current color challenge:

Raspberry ~ Lavendar ~ Neutral

Unfortunately, I needed to make a sympathy card for a very dear friend of mine.  I just loved the raspberry and lavender color selection, so I wanted to use them for this card.  I was hoping the browns and creams would really soften the raspberry and lavender, since it was going to be a sympathy card.  And they really turned out nice together!

I found some really cool papers at Michael's called Industrial Chic by Susan Lenart Kazmen. Are you familiar with her stuff? I just discovered her!!  Lots of cool papers, and charms, etc...! I didn't want to cover the this pretty scripted paper so I decided to heat emboss the sentiment (Verve) onto some vellum, so the pretty script and soft colors would show through. I used eggplant ink with clear embossing powder for the sentiment.

 I always like butterflies for a sympathy card, and I just LOVE this die by Memory Box so I just had to use them again!

I added some stitching to the back panel and across the top of the vellum panel.

I hope this card brings a little comfort to my friend. 

We are SO excited to have a guest designer joining us this month- Lisa Snowdy!!!! Please visit her blog and leave her some love!

I really do hope you check out all the DP's creations! Wonderful inspiration! Their blogs are listed in my sidebar to the right!  

Please join us and link up! We love to see what everybody does with our color choices!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Mackie

Stamps: Treasured Words(VERVE)

Paper:Habitat (Recollections); Industrial Chic(Susan Lenart Kazman); Rose Red, Lavender(SU)

Dies: Jumbo Fishtail Banner Stax(MFT)

Butterflies (Memory Box)

Clear Embossing powder(SU)

 I needed to make a card for a friend who just lost their uncle. I wanted to do something special and I wanted to use flowers. I looked thru my various sketches and magazines.  I cased this card from one I saw in the February CARDS magazine, by Kelly Holbrook. 

The flowers are made with PTI Dearest Jane paper. Each flower is two scallop punches, one 1 3/4" circle punch and a 3/4" circle punch.  Scrunch up each circle, then fold the edges over. After you put them together, add a pretty brad for the center. The leaves are from a flower Sizzix die.

The flowers are so much fun to make that I had to make another one, but this time I used 2-sided designer paper.

Thanks for stopping by!!!!

Mackie

Thinking of You

Good Morning! Hope all is well with everyone! I am sharing some cards today that I CASED from a beautiful card that was in the February "CARDS" magazine. I just love this magazine! You must get yourself a copy!

The original card was created by the very talented Lynn Mangan.  I just loved it. And I remembered it when I  sadly had two occasions of needing sympathy cards.  Lynn Mangan used sentiment and medallion stamp sets from Paper Trey Ink. I did not have these stamps so I used stamp sets that I already had. 

 The doily stamps that I used are from the Dainty Doilies-Large (Waltzingmouse) stamp set . On the second card I stamped the doily onto some scripted DP that I had whitewashed with Gesso. Also, on the second card I ran the back panel thru the Big Shot with a Herringbone embossing folder.
Both cards were very simple, but pretty in an understated way which I thought was very appropriate for the occasion.

Thanks for stopping by!

Mackie

Stamps: Dainty Doilies (Waltzingmouse Stamps); Sympathy4You (Stamps of Life)

Ink: Lettuce, Denim, Wild Plum (Adirondack Earthtones-Ranger)

Paper: Rustic Cream Cardstock (Paper Trey Ink); Market Street Lost & Found ( My Mind's Eye)

Accessories: Herringbone EF (Sizzi); seam binding (Snug Hug); pearl

I prayed for you today

 

This card was made using the Viva La Verve May 2011 Sketch Challenge Week #1:

Believe it or not, these colors are  shades of green and brown, but I could not get it to photograph or photo-shop that way. I'm sorry. It does look better in person. The seam binding is a real pretty shade called fig. Oh well, hope you enjoy the card anyway.

Thanks!  I love to read your comments, so please let me know what ya think!

Mackie

 Paper: K&Co. Floral & Fauna mat pack; SU vanilla
Stamps: Verve "Notes of Prayer"
Ink: Su Early Espresso
Dies: Spellbinders Label 10; Classic Frame
Accessories: Fig Beige Seam binding(Hug Snug); Butterfly punch(Martha Stewart), button brads (Recollections)