Color Inspiration for Card Makers Week: The Jewel Tones Challenge

This challenge was fun. Although, I think I started three cards before I finalized my card. Moxie Fab World's Jewel Tones Challenge made for some beautiful colors!
The Bazzill versions were: Sugar Cookie, Sunshine, Pansy and Blue Calypso.

First off, I have to apologize for the photo... It's not really coming out exactly how it should. The teal color... Is off. I most likely will replace the photo in the morning.

Instead of using the Bazzill, I used the "B" side of a piece of American Crafts Boo paper. I know, I keep using the AC "B" sides... but the colors are so beautiful! American Crafts cream cardstock, American Crafts ribbon, and rub-ons from both American Crafts and Pebbles Inc. I did place one small My Mind's Eye bling on the sunshiney rub-on.

This is so simple, but I really like it!! I am going to hope for some sunshine tomorrow, so I can retake the photo!!

That was the last of the cards!! Enjoy!

Moxie Fab World's Color Inspiration for Card Makers Week: The Neutrals Challenge

This challenge from Moxie Fab World threw me a little... The gold from the metallics challenge was a challenge, but getting shades that really went together was almost tougher! Funny though, because I ended up with two variations using almost the same colors!
The Bazzill colors were: French Vanilla, Twig and Smoky.

For the first card, I used a Bazzill Swiss Dot paper in a pretty khaki color, a light cream American Crafts cardstock, that was cut using the Wild Card Cartridge from Cricut and altered using the Gypsy, two variations of the same die-cut sheet from My Mind's Eye, and a section of a Making Memories ribbon. The top layer of the blue die-cut border has some dimensional stickers to make it "pop" off of the card :)

I like this card, but it wasn't really my style... So I took another look at my supplies and found these papers that are pretty similar in nature.

For this card, I used the same Bazzill Swiss Dot khaki paper, part of a sheet of BoBunny Mamarazzi paper, a ribbon in the same colors (I cannot remember what company...), and a rub-on sentiment from the Letterbox line from American Crafts.

I may just give this one to my brother for his birthday. Lucky for me, he has no idea that this blog exists :)

Moxie Fab World: Color Inspiration: The Monochromatics Challenge

For this card, I decided to create something more fitting for the Valentine's season... Using the following colors for the Moxie Fab World Color Inspiration for Cardmaker's Week, I created a beautiful card for my sweetie.

The Bazzill inspirations were three shades of pink: Bubblegum, Precious and Pinkini.

Instead of the Bazzill versions, I used a base of Basic Grey Two Scoops patterned paper, two shades of pink cardstock from American Crafts that I used my Cricut to die cut the heart, a Making Memories pink ribbon with a Basic Grey rub-on sentiment, My Mind's Eye butterfly rub-ons and bling, and Basic Grey rub-on swirls to tone down the dark pink of the butterflies. I also hand punched the double heart on the die cut and hand sewed using a similar variation on the medium pink shade of the heart.

I really like the simplicity of this card, but I know that it took quite awhile to make "just" right. My sweetie will love it ;)

Moxie Fab World: Color Inspiration: Pretty Pastels & Cameos

Continuing with the Moxie Fab World's Color Inspiration for Card Makers week of color, I completed the rest of the color combo cards :)

For the Pretty Pastels Challenge, I decided to also incorporate the cameo from the Moxie Fab World's Challenge: The Appearance of Cameos.
I used a light pink shade of American Crafts cardstock, a violet shade of Bazzill paper to create the background of the cameo, the "B" side of a piece of AC "Boo" paper, (you would never know that it was a Halloween paper!!!), the background paper is from the Basic Grey Kioshi line, along with the matching lavendar and white polka dotted scallop sticker, and the rub-on is from American Crafts. The cameo and shaped paper die cuts are from the Gypsy Wanderings cartridge from Cricut.

I like how this reminds me of the Holly Hobby kits that my babysitter and I used to make on half days in elementary school. The "Birthday Girl" font reminds me of the 1970's, so it really fits with the childlike cameo.

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Moxie Fab Cards: Brights and Metallics

I love using color for my inspiration!! I love sketches, I love seeing how different people use sketches to create similar layouts and cards... But my art background makes me love color even more!!

This week, I used Moxie Fab World's Color Inspiration. I have two cards that I created for their six challenges!! I'm going to try to complete all six!!

The first that I completed was a thank you card. The inspiration was using Metallics. For the most part, I can't stand metallics. I can never find the "right" version that doesn't look too cheesy. And gold? Not my favorite. Fortunately, I did have a neat looking gold, metallic paper lying around...

For this card, I used a DCWV gold paper, MME Lush flocked damask pink and winter white paper and a winter white cardstock from American Crafts. To give the card the message, I used a Martha Stewart ribbon, and to add some more metallic in my favorite way... MME Lush brown rhinestones! I used the Gypsy cart from my Cricut for the fleur-de-lis.

The second card that I created is one of my all-time favorites! I used the colors from their Bright and Bold Challenge. The Bazzill equivalents are Beetle Black, Lily White, Pink Fairy and Tangelo Blast.

I used some American Crafts cardstock in pink, AC Craft Fair "B" side for the orange, some generic black and white cardstock that I had lying around, Making Memories ribbon, and a MyMindsEye gem. I used my Cricut for the die cuts. The lips are from the Indie Art cart, and the "Smile" is from the WildCards cart. :)

I'm off now to try to finish the others!!