LNS Colour Challenge #42 and TSSC92 layout challenge

I'm on a roll here with challenges

see what happens when you have too much

time on your hands LOL.

First challenge is the

Stampin! Up Late Night Stampers Colour Challenge

Really Rust, Ruby Red and Old Olive

I combined it with a layout challenge

of Mary Jo's Techno Stampers Challenge 92

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The card fell over when I tried to photograph it

Ingredients:

Inkpads and cardstock -Really Rust, Ruby Red, Old Olive

Ribbon: Old Olive

Stamp: Snow Swirled

Ruby Red red on old olive cs

Basic black ink on Rub Red

Embossed the tree in versamark and gold ep

onto Really Rust cs

gold embossed the middle sized decor

and stamped the little decor in basic black

Sentiment was embossed in black

I had a hard time using these colours together,

I almost gave up participating in the challenge.

It didnt look right and incomplete so I

had a hard time choosing which embellishment

I persisted and voila, it all came together

I also had a hard time photographing it

so the colours would show

so I took it outside and it was blowing

and here you can see as I clicked

the card flew off, nice picture of the flower though.

I tried another combination with the colours without layers

and this is what I got.

Thursday 10 minute card challenge Oct 15

Is it Thursday already!!!!

Time flies when you are having fun.

This is what I've been doing since last Thursday

.........and then some.

By the way I do not get up at 3am like

Carole'Anne Sluchinski

who by the way is on holiday in Greece, lucky lady!!

............that clock is showing 3.30pm

can you see the sunlight streaming in the window!!!

I can't show you the front of the cards yet

because it's my next Thursdays 10 min card

and it is also a swap that I am swapping

on Sunday 18th, so I don't want to give

the design away.

I also have to make my Thursday cards

in advance because my In Laws are arriving

from Michigan US of A on 19th Oct

so I'll be playing tourist with them for the whole week

and it would be rude of me to go and craft huh!!!!

....ahem....cough.....cough...I can hear DH in the

other room disagreeing with me, he knows

I never give up my craft unless I have only

one arm which will happen on Nov 12

when I go in for shoulder surgery to repair

a rotator cuff...I'm trying not to think about it.

So this is my Thursday 10 minute card challenge

by Sandi MacIver and Carole'Anne Sluchinski

Ingredients: Ribbon, crystal effects, Horizontal Slot punch

tweezers, dauber.

Ink: Old olive

Stamp: Inspired by Nature

Cardstock: Chocolate chip, Old Olive, Very Vanilla

Cut out your slots

Stamp up your reeds in Old Olive ink

Use your tweezers to hold the horizontal punch piece

I could not do it with my fingers

I found I needed to use another implement to

help me hold down the slot in place

Use your dauber and daub the side of the card

I do this to give it some body and depth

but not all cards need this

Which ribbon to use...that was a hard choice

5/8" Chocolate chip grosgrain

1/4"chocolate chip grosgrain

Taffeta chocolate chip

........what about a bow............I love bows but they

do have their place

I love cutting the base card lengthwise

this allows the card to stand up

but this shape has its place as well

and doesn't suit all card styles

Voila all done

IRL this was the best looking ribbon

1/4"chocolate chip grosgrain

I also did one in Baja Breeze, Not quite Navy

and stepped it up with the sentiment

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Blog Action Day Oct 15 - 2009

Climate change, it affects us all and will

affect all our children and grandchildren

from here on end.

Will you do something now to change it before its too late?

If it doesnt look right watch it on youtube