Saturday, November 29, 2014

Make A Wish

As I typed that title just now, I had a flash-back to early Thanksgiving dinners where we kids got to fight over who would split the wishbone. That was also a time when there were family members who liked the dark meat of the bird. Now that I am (supposedly) all grown up, if I cook on Thanksgiving, it's just a turkey breast, usually boneless. Even at gatherings with friends, where there might actually be even part of a bone-in bird, I can't remember anyone doing the wishbone thing.

Sadly, I just looked up the wishbone Thanksgiving tradition and the first hit was a sponsored ad for Wishbone salad dressing. Therein may lie all of the answers.

So, as I perused the challenges today, I saw Shari Carroll has a new color coordinates post up over at Simon Says Stamp:


and I got an idea.

I was just whining about how I don't like to follow the crowd and do red + black + white as a classic look, but I did the other day, anyway. It still bugs me.

So I made a card based on Shari's colors, but I mixed it up a little, too. :) Here's my first card:


I followed a now-expired but still lovely MFT sketch:


Since Shari's color coordinates were the greys plus a splash of color, I made my card all grey with just a small circle of red peeking out. I thought the card was boring, so I added some enamel dots on the bottom left, too. All better.

I also played the current Addicted to CAS challenge to use dots:

For this, I stamped a Hero Arts background onto the SSS Fog card stock using SSS Fog ink. It's subtle, but it's there:


I suppose I could make a case that the enamel dots are also dots, as are the circles (very big dots) and the dotted-edge banners. I think I'm covered.

Never one to leave well-enough alone, as I cut things out I did each step three times, because I had three ideas. While Shari's splash of color was red this week, last week it was blues:


and since I'm in a blue rut these days, I made the same card as my first one, but replaced the red circle with a blue one:


Again, I thought it was boring, so I added enamel dots.

Then my third idea combined the first two:


Since I stamp without a net, adding the red circle to this one made the piece too large to fit on the right side of the banner, so I moved it to the left side. This also eliminated my feeling of "it needs something", so no enamel dots here.

Except for all that die-cutting, these three cards came together pretty quickly. That makes me happy. :)

Thanks for stopping by!





8 comments:

  1. Very pretty. I love the blue accents.

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  2. Great ccards Leslie! I like them all, but especially the last one! Hazel x

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  3. Hope you had a nice holiday. Just returned from your neck of the woods sort of (further west/north in the state). Love all three cards, but love the last the most.

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  4. Hi Leslie. Great CAS design and fabulous in all three of the colour combos. Thanks for joining us at ATCAS.

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  5. you know, as much as i LOVE the sketch... the 3rd card with the circle on the left is my fave; so beautifully balanced! (on the other hand the enamel dots WORK missus!!!) i love that you get three ideas and make them as three different cards. i get three ideas and try to squish them all into one card and get a headache.) :0

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  6. The one with the blue is the bestest of them all... not to knock the combo one or the one with the red.

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  7. There's nothing better than a clean, simple design like this, and you've used these colors beautifully! I love the splashes of color, piercing and especially those enamel dots! Great cards!
    PS: My sister and I always pulled the wishbone too, and she cheated every year by putting thumb at the top! LOL

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