Thursday, May 24, 2012

ColourQ Birthday

I've been playing with the current ColourQ Challenge all evening, and I FINALLY got something that didn't end up in the trash. Thank goodness for recycling.

Here's their color prompt:

And my card:

(Oooh, that's a bit out of focus. Tired eyes syndrome. Sorry.)

I used an image from the Paper Smooches Potpourri set, stamped it in black on a remnant of textured white*, and again on each of four scraps of patterned paper. I cut out the colored pieces, glued them down, stamped a sentiment (from SU Curly Cute), and stuck that onto a Pool Party base. Done.

This was waaaaay easier than the first two I tried. Some of those parts-is-parts may actually be salvageable and live on to grow up to become part of another card. We'll see.

Thanks for stopping by!

* For one very brief moment, I actually considered stamping the image again, once on either side of the first one, to get a row across. Then I remembered who I was, and laughed out loud. Did you hear me? Man, I crack myself up.

10 comments:

  1. Loving your take on that colour challenge. Glad your other cards frustrated you enough to come up with this one cuz it is great!

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  2. It's all about knowing when to call it quits, isn't it? I think it looks wonderful just as it is. I thought you had used pieces cut with the Silhouette until I read (yes, I read it) the text. You got pretty good scissor skillz.

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  3. Love this card so much, the CAS design really caught my eye xx

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  4. I love how you paper pieced that awesome shape! This makes for an awesome CAS card. Thanks for joining us at colourQ!

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  5. Great take on this week's colours - I do like the pretty papers!

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  6. Well I don't know what the first attempts looked like, but this is great. And I love your little added note at the bottom of your post..cracked me up:) So many times I've tried to add to a card and had it end up in the trash. Glad you stopped when you did. Thanks for joining us at the ColourQ this week.

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  7. Well I don't know what the first attempts looked like, but this is great. And I love your little added note at the bottom of your post..cracked me up:) So many times I've tried to add to a card and had it end up in the trash. Glad you stopped when you did. Thanks for joining us at the ColourQ this week.

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  8. Try, try again and you mastered it. Love the way these pretty dainty patterned images pop! *smile*

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  9. Love your card, Leslie, great paperpiecing! Thanks for joining in the fun with us this week over on the CQC.

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  10. I wish I could design a nice card like that. I have atrocious handwriting, and so most things I try to hobble together look like ransom notes. Good job!

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