CTD105

Are you singing that John Denver song?!!  LOL!!  Barbara’s color choices for today’s Color Throwdown were definitely masculine colors in my book, so I pulled out an Artistic Outpost set I haven’t used for a while called Home.  First, here are her colors:

A bit challenging, aren’t they?  But I persevered, and here’s what I came up with:

I always need masculine birthday cards, so I was glad to stretch myself with these colors!  I did some stamping directly on the DP, and I stamped the Cheesecloth backgrounder across the panel so that the cool edges were visible at the top and bottom of the card.  The layout is from Pam’s TSG67 sketch:

And since the Elegant Eggplant cardstock is too dark on which to write, I added a Confetti Cream panel to the inside:

You might notice that I actually used Old Olive in my card, and not Always Artichoke…..just goes to show that sometimes the designers goof up too!  No problem!  We always say “Use something close!”  So that’s what I did!  We’d love to have you play along with the CTD designers too!  Like I said, if you don’t have these exact colors, that’s okay---we just ask that you use something fairly close.  You can find all the details as well as the Inlinkz feature right on the CTD blog, so hurry on over!  While you’re there, you can check out what the other designers have created, or just check them out here:

• Broni - Splashes of Watercolor
• Tammy - Stamp Happy
• Barbara - Paper Pursuits
• Danielle – Wild Dragonfly Designs
• Laura --Lil’Inker
• and our Guest Designer for this month, Chupa Palamountain – Random Acts of Creativity

Thanks so much for visiting me today!!!

• Stamps:  Home, Artistic Outpost; Cheesecloth BG, Birthday Centers, CHF;
• Paper:  Elegant Eggplant, Confetti Cream, Soft Suede, Old Olive, retired SU DP
• Ink:  Old Olive, Soft Suede, Elegant Eggplant
• Acc:  Nesties, Hemp Twine, Chocolate Chip Marker, Vintage Trinkets, 1/16” hole punch, dimensionals