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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Color Throwdown Challenge #204


Good morning everyone!!! It's Wednesday again and time for another Color Throwdown Challenge!  The fabulous and oh so sweet Broni is our hostess and she has picked some beautiful colors for us this week!!!! Remember, you don't have to use the exact colors...use what you have that comes close...we want everyone to have a chance to play!

My card features flower stamps from The Cat's Meow Flower Garden set...they were stamped with Basic Gray, cutout, and popped up with foam dots. A Martha Stewart butterfly punch was used for the red butterfly and orange bling was added. The sentiment from Verve's Blessings set was stamped with Basic Gray onto vanilla cardstock and cutout with a MFT's Die-namics die. The paper is from Basic Grey's Ambrosia and the seam binding. sewing and distressing finishes it off.

This is also for a few other challenges:
1. Scrap-Creations - use things that start with D - dies, distressing
2. The Ribbon Carousel Blog Challenge - stitching - I used real stitching around the background edges
3. Loves Rubberstamps Challenge Blog - bingo - flowers, ribbon, and distressing
4. Tuesday Alchemy - bingo - ribbons, flowers, bling (on the butterfly)


Be sure to add CTD204 to the keywords when you upload your card to an online gallery so we can find your work!! 

Do you want to see some wonderful inspiration?? Here are the links to the Color Throwdown Designers..... check out what they created this week! 

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits
Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations
Joan Ervin - Stamping With a Passion - that's me! 
Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy
Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor  Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper
Kerri Michaud - Cards by Kerri
Lynn Put - The Queens Scene
Lori Tecler - Inking a Loud
Vickie Zimmer - the FABULOUS August Guest Designer - For the Love of All Things Stampin

Thanks for visiting....have a great week!!!  I can't wait to see what you create with these colors!!!


32 comments:

Sasha said...

A very pretty card, Joan. I love your colour combo and such a lovely sentiment x

Tammy said...

Amazing card and super colors! Love the bow and matching butterfly, really makes the whole card pop!

Kathy and Lucky said...

These are great colors, never would have thought to put them together. Your card is great with that distressed feeling and always love butterflies.

Dawn Easton said...

Joan, this is fabulous!!! Love the distressed look and the seam binding! Beautiful!

Anne Temple said...

Another stunner! Love the bright pop of color in the bow and butterfly.

Annette Allen said...

Joan this is gorgeous...I know I say that all the time but really you make gorgeous cards...I love the distressed edges and these tulips are so pretty...Love it

VanessaB said...

oh wow! love that dress on the color photo and those colors are so pretty and i absolutely love what you came up with. looks amazing and beautiful! :)

jimlynn said...

Beautiful colors, sentiment, and card! So very pretty Joan.
Lynn

Jacqueline Smith said...

Really fabulous card, love the sentiment. Thanks for playing with us at Loves Rubberstamps!

Basement Stamper said...

Gorgeous card and I love that you went with the non-traditional flower color. Thanks for joining us at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations.

Linda Palmer said...

A beautiful card Joan. Love the tulips printed on designer paper, the beautiful butterfly, and the beautiful sentiment. Great job.

Loves Happy Hour said...

awesome job! love the colors and love, love the butterfly!!

thanks so much for joining us this week on Tuesday Alchemy!

Cheers!
Kelli

Loves Happy Hour

Tuesday Alchemy.

Unknown said...

Wow! Your card is gorgeous!! Love the colors and details, that sentiment is so beautiful! Thanks for joining us over at Tuesday Alchemy this week! Good Luck! Hugs and sunshine!

Vickie Z said...

Ohhh...love that background and The flowers with text on them!!! Adore!

Holly AKA KopyKat said...

This is so pretty, love how you encorporated so many challenges, including the colors. Amazing. Thanks for playing with us over at Loves Rubberstamps!

Laura Love said...

This is beautiful Joan! What a pretty color challenge! Thank you so much for playing with us at Loves Rubberstamps!

Ellen Taylor said...

Fab card Joan! Love the color combo and the yellow background! Awesome ribbon! How about I send you all my seam binding to pretty up! Just kidding! Love your card!

Denise Marzec said...

I really need to get some of that crushed ribbon...so pretty! Love the tulips and butterfly, too. Gorgeous card, Joan!

Sue B said...

Oh this is a really sweet card Joan… what beautiful words… I love the design with the ribbon at the top… and the colours are gorgeous!
Hope you're having a good week!
Big Hugs
Sue xx

Olivia said...

A very lovely card. Thanks so much for joining us at Loves Rubberstamps

Doreen said...

This is just gorgeous,love the sentiment.xxx

Unknown said...

Gorgeous!! Love the daring color combo!

Katya- Ангел в кедах said...

Gorgeous colour and such pretty details!

Thank you for joining us at Tuesday Alchemy!
Hugs Katya x

P.S I am having a blog giveaway at my personal blog, you are very welcome to join
http://madewithlovebykatya.blogspot.ie/2012/07/my-blogs-1st-birthday.html

Anonymous said...

Oh wow Joan!! Your card is absolutely stunning here!! Love the way you've used those colors on your design!! I really had fun with the colors! :) Have a great weekend friend!

Becky said...

Great job on this color challenge Joan..Love the design paper and love those flowers.

Peggy said...

This is so pretty. Great colors. Thank you for sharing with us at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations.

Shelley said...

Really love what you have done on this card!

Thank you for playing along with us at Tuesday Alchemy

*hugs* Shell x

Lori said...

Just lovely! The seam binding's the perfect accent for your design.

Lynn Put said...

What a wonderful sentiment on such a pretty card! It really makes me smile! I love all of the texture on your card with the tulips, butterfly and seam binding ribbon!

Wanda Cullen said...

What yummy ribbon and love those texted tulips! Gorgeous card, Joan!

Eileen Ng-Frumkin said...

Love the design! Great job incorporating so many techniques for Bingo at Tuesday Alchemy this week!

Eileen

Ceal said...

what a gorgeous card Joan!