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CCJC5 – Color Challenge

Every Saturday on the  Create with Connie & Julie site we issue a challenge.  Our subscribers are encouraged to enter the challenge to win fabulous prizes!  Last week's challenge winners were Robin and Sandra with Jeannine having an honorable mention!  Congratulations, ladies!

Well, Julie certainly came up with a BRIGHT color combination challenge for us over on Create with Connie and Julie today!  Our challenge was Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry and Pumpkin Pie.  I actually asked her…"what were you thinking?"  However, Stampin' Up!'s Welcome Neighbor Designer Paper from the Sale-A-Bration brochure, does have papers with those colors, so…it worked out!  I'm not sure that I LOVE this card, but it think it came together pretty well.

I started with a base card of Crushed Curry, then added the Melon Mambo.  On the Old Olive layer, I used the Perfect Polka Dots Impressions Folder.  I added a strip of Welcome Neighbor Designer Paper with the Crushed Curry hearts.  Then the center houses are part of the Designer Paper, too.  I just cut a rectangle that had 3 houses on it.  That was layered on Pumpkin Pie cardstock.  I punched the XL Flower from Melon Mambo cardstock and added little dots around the edges with my White Gel Pen.  I punched a 1" circle for the center from Pumpkin Pie and added more dots.  The center I stamped Best Wishes from Vintage Labels…another FREE Sale-A-Bration selection.  Finally, I added a Melon Mambo Polka Dot Ribbon across the bottom, then a bow with a Square Fire Rhinestone Brad!

Make sure you check out the rest of the Create with Connie and Julie Design Team's projects this week! 

Julie Dinn

Mary Brown

Kerin Sylvester

Monika Davis

If you haven't checked out the Create with Connie and Julie site yet now is the time to do it! We feature new Occasions Mini product every week.  There is a new project posted every day and there will be a minimum of two fabulous tutorials each and every week. We like to have lots of fun so we have challenges and prizes for our subscribers. Our sites stay up long after the session is done so you will always have access to the site and the tutorials. For more information and to see our Preview Week projects please visit at Create with Connie and Julie.

Bloggers Challenge – Birthday Bliss

Wow…today is Friday already and it is time for the Bloggers' Challenge!  Our assignment this week is a Birthday Theme! 

I've liked Stampin' Up!'s set, Birthday Bliss, for a while, but never purchased it.  When it came out on the FREE Sale-A-Bration list, I snapped it up quickly!  I LOVE this greeting…May your layers be many & your frosting be thick"!  How TRUE is that!  Yes, I've always been the one who wants the corner piece with the MOST frosting!  lol!

I've had this sketch for a while…maybe it was one that Mary Brown and I worked on together…I forget.  I stamped the birthday cake image on Basic Black, then watercolored with my So Saffron, Regal Rose and Bermuda Bay Stampin' Write Markers and AquaPainter.  I took my colors from the Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper that was also FREE Sale-A-Bration with purchase.  I cut 1 1/4" x 5 1/4" strips of three patterns for the background.

The base card is Bermuda Bay and I layered on Whisper White.  The stamped image was punched with 1 3/8 circle punch, then layered on a 1 3/4 So Saffron circle.  The larger scallop is from the Pennant XL Bigz Die in Regal Rose and I added some dots around the scallops with my White Gel Pen.  Finally, I added the White Stripe Organdy Ribbon and tied.

Pretty simple card, but darling for a birthday…hmmm…who has a birthday next that I could sent this to???

I hope you have a great weekend!  Mine is working up to be a BUSY one!