Friday, January 15, 2016

a rerun in green. green?

Green, as I may have mentioned before, is not my favorite color. It's great for Kermit. And the plants and trees in my garden. But not my cards.

So when Colour Q went and did this, I figured it would be a good challenge for me.



And I paired it with Winnie and Walter's rerun of a stamp set I don't have, but I improvised. And drew inspiration from this card of Lydia's.

I pulled out WW True and silver heat embossed a couple borders in a nod to the rows of garlands on Lydia's card. Then I colored in a few triangles with Distress and Zig markers in Colour Q colors. Stamped and partially heat embossed a sentiment.

Sponged Distress Inks in Mowed Lawn, Shabby Shutters and Broken China onto Neenah CS and die cut WW Friend from it and from white CS. Adhered it offset a la Lydia (this is actually what originally caught my eye on Lydia's card!).

Added a vellum die cut branch and voila!


I chose this word die cuz I want to play at Mod Squad where it's about "Friendship". And the inking from green to blue qualifies my card for the "Ombre" challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

Happy Friday! If we're lucky we might be seeing our first snow of the season this weekend...


13 comments:

Deepti said...

Classic you and the stunning you :) love it

Tracey McNeely said...

This is such a cool card 'Maria! Love all the techniques you used!

Suchi said...

LOVE this card and the colors!!! <3 Hope it snows there.. :)
Suchi xx

~amy~ said...

awesome.
LOL...green is my favorite color.

Cornelia (fun stamping) said...

I LOVE this - clean and modern!

Karen B. said...

So glad you tackled the green... Beautiful card!

Diane Jaquay said...

This is awesome, everything came together so beautifully!!

Virginia L. said...

Love your play with word die, colors and patterns! So awesome! Thanks so much for playing Simon Says Stamp Wednesday “Ombre” Challenge!

Loll said...

Awesome, creative design Maria. xx

Unknown said...

Ooooh love that 'friend' die, isn't it fabulous and that vellum branch die too....sooooo pretty! I think you 'do green' very well! Thanks so much for playing along with us at The Mod Squad Blog!

Anita in France said...

So cool, Maria ... green suits you ... as does all that shimmery silver ... delicious! Hugs, Anita :)

Kate said...

Great card Maria :) Love all of he elements and the soft velum leaves so cool! Thanks so much for playing along with Winnie and Walters rerun challenge.
Kate xx

Winnie & Walter said...

What an awesome card whether it be green or not! I love your take on Lydia's card too, Maria. Thank you so much for playing along with our Rerun Challenge. :-)

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