Sunday, July 27, 2014

Shameless CASEing

Two cards in two days .... that has to be a record for me.  LOL

The card below is for the Colour Me!! Challenge which this week I find very challenging.  Color combinations of more than two and a neutral throw me, so recently I have been watching the color challenges and giving it a try.  So far all have been horrible failures but today, with what I would consider the hardest colors to mesh, I finally have a card I like.  Of course I can't take any credit because this card is a shameless CASE of one of Jennifer McGuire's, seen here





The key to this type of challenge is the balance of color, which is where I always fail.  In this case I wanted the gold and black to dominate with the Mambo and Daffodil as complements.  The neutral completely threw me, but I finally mixed a bit of Smokey Gray embossing powder in with the white to tone down the sentiment, which at full-on white was too much.  Instead of allowing the entire die to roll across the card, I shifted it so that several of the diamonds fell off the edge.  So that the gold wouldn't completely out do the Mambo and Daffodil, I covered them in a layer of Wink of Stella.  After putting all the pieces down I hightailed it over to Kim Singdahlsen's site to look up the SU!/Copic charts, she has so graciously listed in her sidebar, in order to color in some bling to match.    So the whole thing sparkles with the exception of the black base which IRL really looks nice.   :)  The only issue that I have is that the Wink of Stella changes the color on the card stock just a bit, so the lovely bright Mambo is slightly toned down, but it does sparkle so I guess it's a trade-off. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.
Happy Sunday
Carole


12 comments:

  1. Wow - what a striking and beautiful card! The layered diamonds look amazing! Beautiful against the black background. :)

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  2. Wow again. What a beautiful card. Your colours and layout are perfect.

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  3. I love the beautiful layered diamonds against the black background! It is so gorgeous and truly eye catching! Thank you for joining us at Colour Me this week! XX

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  4. Hi Carole, wow your card is stunning...I was checking out the Colour Me challenge and no way would anything I made be so fabulous. So much balancing from you, mine just get patched together. Wonderful job Robyn

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  5. Holey cow! What a gorgeous card, Carole! Fab take on the colors snd the photo!

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  6. And just when I thought I'd seen it all … what an amazing take on the color combo, Carole! Love how you let the black dominate in the background. It makes all the colors really pop. Also love the layout, that you shifted it to one side. Thank you for playing along with us at Colour Me…! this week!

    Julia
    CMCC Design Team

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  7. Just commented your other card and thought I better have a look at this one....OMG (sorry, I sound like my 9yr old daughter) but this is fantastic!! The colour layering is amazing and you rock this die so much I really must look at getting one!! Another winner!

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  8. YAY! Carole!!!! CONGRATS on your Colour Me...! win! You totally rocked the colors!

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  9. Congrats on your win at Colour Me!!! Such a fabulous card!

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  10. Meant to tell you before I hit publish, I am happy to cut you some of the PTI butterflies if you like, just let me know.

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  11. What a fabulous simple design that you take right over the top! Your spacing, the colors, the drama! You are a winner and you deserve it!

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  12. I knew it, I knew it!!! Congratulations on your well deserved win!!! I can imagine many people CASing this card now is just so good!

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