Friday, October 24, 2014

Mojo & Merry


Hi Bloggers, I made a card for this week's Merry Monday 368 challenge with the theme of non-traditional colors and paired it with Mojo Monday Sketch ___ . This style card is a little different for me. I rarely just stamp a card but I am learning. When I first got into card making I used cricut cuts then graduated to coloring images using mostly sentiment stamps. Now I am doing more straight stamping, because it's fun! 

I used all Momento Ink colors, knowing I wanted non-traditional colors. I wasn't sure what to do with the background so I decided to go for a color blocked effect to match the ink. Not using patterned paper is also outside my norm but I'm pretty happy with these 2 cards. Links to challenges below.


Mojo Monday 368 -Sketch
Merry Monday 131 -Non Trad. Colors
Christmas Card Challenges -Photo Inspiration-Optional
Addicted to stamps 118 -Holiday
Christmas at Sweet Stampin -October Challenge-Snowflakes
Craftin by Design -Get ready for Christmas
Simon Says Stamp -Use Kraft

Paper: Various cardstock manufacturers, Stamps: My Minds Eye-Trees, Hero Arts-Sentiment and tiny snow flakes, Inks: Momento, Embossing Folders: Cuttlebug, Twine-Darice, Die: MFT Stitched Circles, Gems-K&Co.




17 comments:

  1. Great texture and I love the different patterns on the trees, Kim! I think both color combos are great! So happy you could join us at ATS&M!

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  2. Adorable scene with the snowy hills and the bright, bold colours of your patterened trees. Fun design Kim! Thanks for joining us at ATS&M.

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  3. Love the non-traditional colors for the Christmas design! The trio-color and kraft card stock work beautifully together! Thanks so much for playing Simon Says Stamp Wednesday “Get Crafty” Challenge!

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  4. Kim, I really love the colors you used for your non-traditional card! All the embossing and texture looks great! XX

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  5. LOVE the colors on both cards, Kim - very bright and festive! Thanks so much for joining us at Merry Monday!

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  6. Your card is so gorgeous, love those colours for Christmas.
    luv
    Debby

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  7. A lovely bright Christmas card, Kim, really eye catching

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  8. Thanks for entering our Christmas Card Challenges this week!
    Monica - CCC DT

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  9. What a great pairing of challenges! Love your embossed background and stunning colors :)

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  10. I love how you used the embossed color blocks to match the trees, Kim! What a wonderful Christmas card! Thanks for sharing it with us at Merry Monday!

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  11. Beautiful card! Love the colors! Thanks for joining us at Christmas Card Challenges.

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  12. This is a beautiful non-traditional trio of trees (say that 10 times fast!) So glad you joined us this week at both Merry Monday and Addicted to Stamps and More!

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  13. I love these bright bold coloured trees agains the kraft background. Fabulous card!
    Thank you for joining us at Christmas at Sweet Stampin’, good luck in the challenge and I hope you will be back again.
    Marilyn

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  14. I like them too. You picked great colors. The stamped trees are so cute. Hugs!

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  15. It is liberating to use solid image stamps once in a while and give yourself a break from coloring, which can be very time consuming. I just love how bright and fun this is. Fabulous creativity with both challenges!

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  16. Congratulations, Kim! We loved your card at Merry Monday and you are our winner. If you would like to be our Guest Designer next week, email me at bonklass(at)gmail(dot)com

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  17. There's a lot to like about this card: your paper and ink coordination is perfect and I love the three background panels with the three foreground trees. The embossing really stands out and using these brights with Kraft and white is perfect. It's delightful to see you playing along with the CASSettes this month with this pretty card. Hugs, Lesley

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