CTD845 Farewell to Color Throwdown

 Happy Wednesday, peeps! I have a bittersweet post today!  The long-standing Color Throwdown blog is ending and today is the last post, and the team has asked some of the original members to participate! Our first post was in July of 2008 and I remember the excitement I felt when Tammy asked me to be on the team! I'll share that first card in a moment, but let's see what the CTD Design Team has picked for us this week:

A lovely seasonal palette for sure!  Here is another quilted card, similar to the one I made earlier  (HERE is the link to the original designer) and I wanted to recreate it using the challenge colors! So here we go:

This quilted card is such a great way to use up some scraps!  I used my Taylored Expressions Easy Strips 1/2" dies to cut out some fall patterned paper, then layered it on a piece of Very Vanilla, , added some Quilt Top embossing, then adhered it to a piece of Crushed Curry cardstock that had been embossed with a leafy embossing folder:

I did a little faux button and some twine, and then around my Honey Bee sentiment, I added some punched leaves and dotty embellishments:

And a lovely Bible verse for the inside:

Now, for a walk down memory lane; here is the first color challenge CTD had, as well as the card that I created for it:

I still love those colors!!  My photography skills were not too good then; in fact, it was pretty funny looking back at some of my posts!  We all have learned and honed our skills along the way, haven't we?  Anyway, I hope you'll go play with the last Color Throwdown challenge, give the ladies' cards some love and perhaps walk down your CTD memory lane as well!  Thanks for popping in! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Blessings of Fall (Honey Bee)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Timid Tiger, Misc DSPs from my stash
Ink	Cajun Craze
Accessories	Mossy Meadow Thick Twine (ret), Dimensionals, Matte Dots (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Easy Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions), Rounded Rectangle Layers Dies (Impression Obsession), Button Die (Papertrey), Leaf Punch (ret), Quilt Top Embossing Folder (ret), Fall Leaf Background Embossing Folder (Darice)

FMS709 Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I have a fun little Thanksgiving card for you today, using some goodies I recently gifted to myself, LOL!  First, the sketch, which is from Freshly Made Sketches:

Normally, I'd jump on that banner, because I love banners, but I thought a new fence die that I got would be a fun substitute.  Here we go:

The fence is from Gina Marie, and the pumpkin and sentiment are from Honey Bee...so cute!  After diecutting, I did a lot of ink blending on both of them, and I also gave the sentiment a bit of a silhouette with Mossy Meadow cardstock.  The papers are some oldies from Carta Bella, called Fall Break:

Another HB sentiment on the inside:

Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy had the most amazing-looking donut...my mouth was watering:

I don't even want to think about the calorie count!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Blessings of Fall (Honeybee Stamps)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Mossy Meadow, Pumpkin Pie, Pecan Pie, Crushed Curry, Fall Break (Carta Bella)
Ink	Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Blessings of Fall Dies (Honeybee), Lovely Layers:Fall Bounty Dies (Honeybee), Fence Die (Gina Marie), Sponge Daubers