Every Moment for Embellish Magazine

Hi Everyone.  Happy Sunday.

I don't normally post on Sunday's, but as I missed two night's posting this week, I felt I really needed to!  I also wanted to give you an update on the Operation Write Home card drive, too.

Let's start with a card tonight.  I saw this challenge across at Embellish Magazine and couldn't wait to bring out my Every Moment stamp set.  I was lucky to have a little stamping time last weekend to make this card, but wasn't able to load it before today!  In fact, I have ones I made nearly three weeks ago to show you still! Don't forget to pop along to Embellish Magazine and check out the fabulous design team and submission cards.

Now, the challenge was to 1) use the colors in the photo and 2) to use an image on your card that required coloring.  Now, y'all know that I never turn down an excuse to bring out my inks!!!!  The colors are not ones that I am naturally drawn to, but I decided to give it a try.

My first decision was that the card focal color would be Crumb Cake and that I would make the green, pink and yellow my highlight colors.  I also wanted to bring in just a tad of the darker brown used on the "flying house studios" to add a little grounding to the card.

Although Crumb Cake was my base, I wanted to darken the striped background a little, so I sponged it with a little Soft Suede.  This allowed the focal point to really pop from it's Crumb Cake tag.  (This layout really has become a fall to layout for me!)  Of course, the bird in the bulrushes needed just a little blue sky, but just enough to make him pop and took that inspiration from the little blue flower on the necklace.

Here's what I came up with:

I used a mixture of my Stampin' Write markers and Copics to color the image.  Here's the deets of the card:

• Card stock:  Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla
• Stamps:  Every Moment, Perfect Words.  En Francais (lightly stamped onto the tag).  Wonderfully Worn (lightly stamped onto the tag.
• Inks: Soft Suede classic ink.  Stampin' Write Markers:  Lucky Limeade (stalks), Crumb Cake (bulrush heads).  Bird colored with Copics
• Accessories:  Pear Pizzazz and Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon.  Naturals Button.  Early Espresso Baker's Twine
• Tools:  Paper snips for the fussy cutting of the bird.  Stampin Dimensionals – each layer is on dimensionals.  Bow Easy for the two toned bow, double tied to make 4 bows on either side. Sizzix tag die and Big Shot.  Color Spritzer tool – used with Crumb Cake Stampin' Write marker on the Striped Embossing folder layer to help add dimension and shadow.

So, what do you think?  I hope I managed to incorporate the colors and I really did enjoy coloring the focal point!

Operation Write Home Card Drive update:

Two weeks to go to get your cards to me.  As a reminder, these are cards that the service man or woman will choose on base to send home to a family member.  Just about anything goes in terms of requirements, but Happy Birthday, Love You, etc. are especially welcome.  You can check out my original detailed blog post on what to do and what is preferred.  A2 cards are definitely the preferred card size.  Cards can be made using any stamp products.  Don't forget …. every 20 cards with envelopes that you send, will give you one entry into the draw for Stampin' Up! product courtesy of MOI.  As an added incentive, everyone who does send me cards will receive a little thank you present from me, too.  So, even if you are not the main prize winners, you will still receive a little Stampin' Up! memento from Convention – just as my way of saying thank you.

If you have any questions at all on the card drive, need any advice, etc. Please just drop me an email.  You can find the link right under my photo – taken with my handsome hubby and the fabulous Fox the Camel!

As always, thank you so much for spending time in my little area of the stamping blogosphere.  Warm hugs and prayers for those who need them.

Hugs

Jaydee