Thursday, January 27, 2011

Cards

Hi All! Hope you all had a fantastic Australia Day! I know I did, we had a few friends over for a barbecue... We had good intentions of sitting outside to eat, but it was just much too hot! It was still 36 degrees Celsius (about 97 in Fahrenheit) at 2am when I was trying to sleep.... thankfully not long after, a southerly change came through, cooling the place down a little...
Now, onto some cards!

The first I made a few days ago, but didn't get round to posting. It is for the ColourQ challenge, which this week was an interesting colour combo for me! You all know how much I love orange... or in this case 'peach'...
The second card was for a couple of challenges...
The first challenge was the Colour Throwdown, which was to use 

I don't have any thing with Kiwi Kiss, so I substituted with Pear Pizzazz. It's hard to tell in the photo, but the trees do actually have Old Olive leaves... I swear! The other challenge I'm entering this into is the Stamping Vacation White Space challenge... while my card has a lot of empty space.... it's not exactly white.... but before doing this card, I did double check the meaning of White Space, and this qualifies.... The other pre-requisite of this challenge was to use three of anything... and that is my 3 trees... 
I love the sentiment stamp, (it arrived in the mail today!) I don't have enough "just because" stamps.... So, this Basic Grey one was a welcome addition.... 
Thanks for checking in.... 
Go check out some challenges, and as always have fun!

8 comments:

  1. Hi Jess, Glad you had a lovely Australia Day. I did, too, here in America, watching tennis from down under. Your card is lovely, you used these colors very well. Thanks for joining us at the ColourQ again this week.

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  2. These are great! Love your stamps, still working on something for your challenge!

    My aunty said it was horrendously hot down there!

    stay cool!

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  3. Love them both Jess! I really like how you used the white ink on the Kraft in the CQC one, thanks for playing with us over there! :)

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  4. Wonderful take on our challenge there Jess. Both of your cards are beautiful. Love the border punch you use. Thanks for joining in the White Space challenge at Stamping Vacation

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  5. These are so lovely. I love your use of "white" space. And I am especially envious of your 97-degree weather. When I look out my window I see about 3-feet of snow. Ugh!

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  6. I love the simplicity of your cards and your great use of the colors! (I'm envious of your heat, too. lol)

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  7. These are both brilliant cards. I particularly like the Life Happens one - so pretty!

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  8. Ah, I hit a double here---two of my fav challenges, both the CQC AND the CTD! And you rocked both of them!! I love the leafy image you used on the CQC card, and Trendy Trees is one of my fav all-around sets! Thanks for playing both challenges!

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