On the Diagonal

That Shari Carroll is a genius when it comes to colors. Here is her current Color Coordinates Recipe over at the Simon Says Stamp blog:

I thought it would be fun to use the lighter grey plus the two blues in a sortof ombre thing. For my design, I chose to CASE the inspiration card from the current (and sadly last) The Cutting Edge challenge:

What a perfect excuse to break out my Lil' Inker On The Diagonal die that I've never used.

For my sentiment, I opted to loosely follow the current Clean & Simple challenge:

If you roll all that together, this is what comes out:

 

I used three of Shari's colors, copied the layout of the card from The Cutting Edge, and since the C&S sketch was also three panels, I declare this a loose interpretation of the panels and stamped the sentiments in SSS Slate.

When I stamped the 'birthday' word, I managed to schmear ink onto the bottom blue panel, so it was time to embellish! I broke out my Avery Elle Finished Frames dies and used the stars to cut some grey (maybe Smoke? I wasn't paying attention) card stock. I also added a few silver star sequins.

I think it's still pretty CAS, and I'm happy with how it turned out.

Thanks for stopping by!

ETA: My card won Top 3 at The Cutting Edge! :)

Stuff I used: misc star sequins, and the following:

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