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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Challenging Challenge

This past week I ventured out of my comfort zone and tried sketch challenges.  The first two wer pretty easy.  This third one stumped me because I also challenged myself to do a mono-chromatic card with one pop of color.  The challenge I am entering is http://cropstop.blogspot.com
MATERIALS
Cardstock:base;DCWV-Black Currant; Black shiny damask-DVWV-Black Currant;Solid black-Colorbok
all other-K&CCompany(A black and grey pad I got a few years ago)
Ribbon-Michaels wedding dept
Pink gem-Recollections
Adhesives-ATG
Pen-Black Sharpie
Provocraft:Cricut Expression with Summer in Paris and Create A Critter; Cuttlebug with Textile folder;Gypsy and Gypsy wanderings
DIRECTIONS
Make a 5.25" square card.Add a 5X3.75" piece of black damask, a 5X.5" piece of grey on grey floral, and 5X.75 piece of grey on grey diagonal striped paper Adhere black and silver ribbon as show.  Adhere a 3.75X3.5 piece of plain grey to lower left side as shown,
With black card stock and Summer in Paris cartridge cut lady at and poodle at   (I went around edges of cut with black Sharpie so white core wouldn't show)  Cut umbrella from Create a Critter at   . Adhere cuts as shown.  Ink in leash. For triangles I used diamond from Gypsy Wanderings aand cut at .75, 1, and 1.25 " Then I cut each diamond in half.  Saying is computer generated.  Oval is an old punch(label is off)

9 comments:

  1. Wow this is such a classy card. Love the balck and white and the poodle too!!!!
    Excellent job!!!!

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  2. Wow what an adorable card... love that poodle ...tfs

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  3. Nice job with the monochromatic concept. I like that you keep stretching your talent. Thank you for sharing your project with us on CropStop.

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  4. Your card is so pretty...love the Black Currant stack. TFS! :)

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  5. Beautiful card, Katie! The monochromatic worked for you. Thanks for playing along with our CropStop Challenge Blog!

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  6. Oh my gosh this is fantastic. Thank you for playing in our Cropstop Challenge Blog.

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  7. fun color scheme! Thanks for entering the Crop Stop Challenge! :)

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  8. I think you rocked this card and sketch girl! Thanks for playing with us at Cropstop's Challenge!

    - -dalis

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