Monday, May 21, 2012

Retro Sketches Color Throwdown!

I am so loving the June SOTM - the birds, the punny sayings, it's just so adorable!!

I made this card or the team swap at our meeting tonight. I used the color combo from Color Throwdown #92. They always have such interesting inspiration photos!

I also used the sketch from one of my favorite sketch blogs, Retro Sketches. I wanted to CASE the Happy Bee-Day card at the top of the post like immediately-yesterday-OMG-it's-too-cute! You have to buzz over and have a peek!

I used my beloved Dotty for You papers (only available this month!) matted onto Grey Wool CS. The flower I cut on my Cricut using the Art Philosophy Cartridge.  I rolled the petals all around to make it more 3-D after I stamped the flower image and spritzed them with my Spray pen and Smoothie reinker. I stamped the flower image again on White Daisy CS and trimmed out the center circle, which I backed with lots of tiny white cricut cut hearts and popped up on the flower center. I hand cut leaves from Grey Wool CS and scored the centers to make the leaf vein.

I'm linking this to the H2H Polka Dots and Stripes Challenge too!

Thanks for fluttering by!

12 comments:

Joelle H. said...

I love the gray with the bright dotty colors! Great flower, too! Thanks for sharing with us at H2H!

Tammy Hershberger said...

Very cute... I used that sketch this week, too! It's fabulous! Love how you used the Throwdown colors here. Thanks for joining us!

Jackie Rockwell said...

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE those colors! The gray mat is perfect with this color scheme! GREAT card Wendy! So glad you played RetroSketches this week!

Amie Kiger (Kigz) said...

I just love this combination and have been enjoying the work that you share. Soooooo....You have been nominated for the “Liebster Award” Please follow the link to view your nomination. http://mimimyselfandibykigz.blogspot.com/2012/05/nomination-for-blog-award-who-mimi.html

Chrissy Larson said...

LOVE the chevrons and dots! WOW! The color combo is spot on. This is really a great card!

Arielle H Gordon said...

GORGEOUS Wendy - I love the way you used these yummy colors! That flower is awesome! Thank you so much for playing along with us at RetroSketches this week!

Wanda Cullen said...

Love your clean design and great use of the throwdown colors! So glad you were able to play along with us!

Tracey McNeely said...

Great patterns Wendy, love the colours too.

Amy Moore said...

Such a great card! The colors look beautiful together and I love the shapes!

Sabrina said...

Gorgeous colour combo and great card! CONGRATS!!

Larissa Heskett said...

CONGRATS!!
WOW!! Your card is BEAUTIFUL!! I love your take on the challenge!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!! =)

Marg Van Patten said...

Lovely combo of color and patterns. Thanks for the inspiration!

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