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Monday, April 19, 2010

Color Cue {3} Challenge

Hello friend! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! Today is Monday and I'm usually not at my best on this particular day. You can say that I've been hit with Monday blues......every week! However, today is an exception because this card has made to the top 5 at 2S4Y!! YAY! I have a big smile plaster on my face as I am typing this. Thanks to the 2S4Y team!

Now onto today's card. The color combo is based on a challenge hosted by my talented friend, Dawn! I was at first intimidated by the challenge but decided to give it a shot anyway. I would not have thought of using this color combo myself but to my utter amazement, I love the end result! Thanks for the inspiration Dawn!



Everything on this card except the gray cardstock is by Papertrey Ink. The text background is stamped in white acrylic paint. Yes, you've heard me right. I tried with white ink on a piece of scrap but the result isn't that prominent so I opt for white paint instead. I love my new discovery!

Have a great day!

19 comments:

  1. Woo hoo.. !! congrats my dear.. your winning card was fabulous!... well I really heart this card too.. i love the use of the blue, yellow butterfly with pearls.. everything in its right porportion.. white paint.. wow got to try.. fabbie girl.. have a great week ahead!

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  2. Woo hoo.. !! congrats my dear.. your winning card was fabulous!... well I really heart this card too.. i love the use of the blue, yellow butterfly with pearls.. everything in its right porportion.. white paint.. wow got to try.. fabbie girl.. have a great week ahead!

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  3. This is an extremely lovely card, I really enjoy all the details that you've added. I could keep looking and looking.

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  4. girlie, I was soooo thrilled to see your name over at 2s4y!!! woot woot!!!

    love the butterfly card...great job with the paint!

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  5. Big congrats about your 2S4Y card which totally rocked! And this card is just as fabulous!! You are so super talented!

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  6. Congrats on making top5 at 2S4Y! :)

    I love how you did the background stamping! Stunning card! :)

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  7. Yay for 2s4y top 5, Cindy. I love how you used paint aside from ink! Great advice...

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  8. Very , very cute Cindy, congrats on making the fab5 over at 2S4Y, I saw that on their site, hehe! Lovely card, the butterfly is cute! luving the pearls on it. I think I need to play this color cue, hehe, thanks for the tip on white paint!

    Hugs
    Clouds :D

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  9. Congrats on your top five spot!! What a gorgeous card you've created here! I love the background, got to try that paint trick too some time :)

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  10. Congratulations Cindy!! And guess what??? I can finally post messages!! I am so happy!!
    I love the butterfly, I also love the dear lizzy product "hang ten" card, super cute!
    I have a question: What do you do with your cards? Do you sell them? Or do you just make them for fun and keep them and use them when you need to for family and friends etc?
    Have a great day!!

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  11. This is stunning!! Love the subtle additions of the pink and yellow!!

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  12. Woot Woot! Congrats on your 2S4Y feature...and girl, Mondays got nothing on you! This is FABulous! I particularly like the fact that you left the borders of the text background uneven. Great touch.

    Thanks for playing along with us!!

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  13. How gorgeous is this? Have yet to try coordinating light brown, silver, and yellow, this is a beautiful combo!

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  14. Wow! This is a really great card! Love it! :)

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  15. HAPPY flitting butterflies! THIS IS SUPER! What a terrific way to celebrate with Dawn's dynamic color scheme {yep, a lot of us were insecure about using these! ;0P}...! This card is smashing and has certainly helped to chase away MY Monday blues! Yipeee!

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  16. Gorgeous!! And I LOVE both of your Dear Lizzie cards!! So pretty!

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  17. Absolutely Stunning. I can't even narrow down what I like about it, I love the whole card!

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  18. I am head over heels in love with this one! WOW, wow, wow! Everything is fabulous from the white text in the background to the twine! You TOTALLY ROCK!

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  19. Absolutely Gorgeous! Like in a breath-taking sort of way. Stunning :)

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