Friday, July 3, 2009

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #11

I have to be the first to admit, these were a little challenging for colors, well challenging that I wanted to stay away from flowers since I do a lot of flower cards sometimes. But, last night while I was lying in bed, this idea came to me to use my one birdhouse stamp set from Papertrey Ink. I had it all invisioned in my head how I would use it and how I wanted my whole card to lay out. I only changed one thing about my vision. I was going to use the birdhouses that went vertical but instead I used the group of three birdhouses that line up horizontally.


Here is how my card turned out. I am pretty happy with the end result. Only I wasn't so happy with how hard it was to stamp on this light gray paper. It is almost like it had a little bit of a sheen to it and it made it difficult to get a good solid stamp. But, I tried my best to darken a few areas with black marker to make it more bold like on the birdhouse posts and the roof on the middle birdhouse.


As for the grass, that was the easy part. I just took a strip of paper about .75 inches wide and started snipping to give the look of individual pieces of grass. Once I was done with that, I just crinkled the ends a bit. Easy peasy!!
Supplies:
cardstock - Papertrey Ink (pink, black, red), Bazzill (green), American Crafts (light gray)
stamps - Papertrey Ink
gems - Hero Arts
ink - Colorbox

16 comments:

  1. Super cute! I love your birdhouses and grass fringe! Nice job with the color challenge.

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  2. I love how this looks like a frame!! Great use of the colours this week :)

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  3. Cute card! Love the texture that the grass adds!

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  4. The three brads on that center birdhouse are a great detail. Cute card. (Amazing how that creative brain sometimes kicks into gear when we walk away from our creative work, isn't it?!)

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  5. OK----SOOOOOO in love with your card! You did a fabulous job on this challenge! So fun!! I love the popped up frame around the whole thing! WOW!

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  6. Bellissima!!! WOW complimenti proprio una bella card!

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  7. Whoo! This is a SURE spotlight card! Love it! Same theme I was gonna go for.. green = grass right? lol! Great job! Still pondering what I'm gonna do... sort of stomped!

    Love this, girl... great job!

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  8. Lovely card!!! The colors look so good together :)

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  9. This is adorable! I LOVE the way you took hold of those colors and created this composition! Fabulous work!

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  10. This is such a great idea. Love the framed bit. Super cute

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  11. My goodness! Wouldn't I love to be a fly on the wall in your visions (or something like that! lol)!! This came out really fabulous and I would be surprised if it wasn't one of Dawn's top picks!!! It really is fab...from how you used the colors in the challenge to the wonderful little scene you've created! :>

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  12. wow, so pretty and creative! love the cute bird house!

    Clouds :D

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