Colour Challenged

I was invited to do a sample for this week's colour challenge over at Splitcoaststampers and I was so incredibly flattered to be asked. I was thrilled!

The colours were:

Always Artichoke

Blushing Bride

Marine Mist

And there was a desert option to do embossed frames but more than 1 per card.

I can't resist desert so I had some of that as well as playing with the colours.

I was over in the States today and on the way over my truck got x-rayed along with 5 other ones. I guess it had to do with heightened security becasue of 9/11 and I can understand that. The border guards were very nice and it all went really quickly too.

But if I'd thought about it I probably wouldn't have gone across this close to the anniversary of that horrible day.

My Tool Man and I watched a slide show on the internet and the coverage on TV about it and it still makes me want to cry, thinking about all the people that died and remembering hearing about it on the radio and then seeing it on TV when I got home from work that evening.

My heart goes out to all of the people who lost loved ones.

But since I was there I decided to pop into JoAnn's and have a look around. And while I was there this cat stamp just followed me home. I just couldn't resist her and I brought her home with me and knew that I had to use her to make one of my sample cards today.

Cat card

Stamps: Inkadinkado

Ink: SU Basic Black craft, Marine Mist, Blushing Bride, Always Artichoke

Clear embossing powder

Just a Note card

Stamps: Kraftin' Kimmie, Hero Arts

Ink: Memento and as above

Copics BG72 as Marine Mist with BG70 and 79, R30 with RV21 as Blushing Bride and YG 99 as Always Artichoke with YG96 and 00

Emergency Flutterby Instructor

This was done for Mother Mark's Teapot Tuesday Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers.

This week we are visiting Coconut Creek, Florida. Butterfly capital of the world and home to the National Butterfly Behaviour Foundation.

The challenge was Top Gun inspired as well and since I am that age Top Gun and the Tom Cruise of that era made my teenage heart fo pitter patter. I knew exactly what I would do for this challenge which is about 2 out of control young butterflies wanting to do a flyby on the administrative offices to make the secretary spill her tea.

I enlisted the help of Lavinia from Kraftin Kimmie and thought that she could be the NBBF's Charlie. Maybe she could get those boys undercontrol to avoid poor Emma, the secretary, getting tea all over herself.

I took a different slant than everyone else for this challenge but I like what I came up with even if it is unconventional.

Stamps: Lavinia - Kraftin' Kimmie, Silhouettes - Stampendous, Sentiment and butterflies - MFT

Ink: Memento, SU Baha Breeze, Vintage Violet, Blue Bayou, Distress Ink Walnut Stain

Paper: Melon Mambo, Neenah Solar White

Copics: R80's for the Pink and B40's for the blue. Hair is assorted E's in the 50 and 70 range.

Extras: Tim Holtz Texture Fade, MFT Cloud Die

I stamped and coloured Lavinia and the butterflies and then cut them out. I stamped the silhouette stamps inking both of them only paritally and then masked off the skyling and sponged BB for the sky and VV and BB for the tarmac. Then I did my embossing. All the layers have WS on them to distress them. I layered everything up and there you go!