Color Throwdown

Today's card is for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge.  Pinks, green and kraft - you can't get much better than that!

Here's my card:

MFT: Words of Inspiration,  Blueprints 15,  PTI: Flower Garden

I've made several cards similar to this after this post from Jennifer McGuire!

I'm entering this one in Simon Says Stamp's three challenges this week- Monday's  No Rules Challenge and Wednesday's Anything Goes Challenge, and the new Work It Wednesday challenge which is all about welcoming SPRING, so I think these colors will work!

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Hello!

Good Sunday evening!  I'm off tomorrow, so I was able to relax a little bit today and not chase the laundry around the house all day.  I organized my patterned paper and discovered I have way too much - from kits to single pages to almost used up pieces that I can't bear to throw away.  I vowed to start using it more often and to go back and review the Pattern Play card class I took last year.  

So, my first attempt at using up a little patterned paper is here:

Paper Smooches: Quote Tag set, Botanicals 1

I stamped the flowers in Versamark and clear embossed them on the tag. Then I used a blending tool to add color to the tag in the palette for this week's challenge at Color Throwdown.  I mounted it on a piece of cream cardstock that I ran through my Big Shot with an impression plate.  All of this was mounted on a sheet of distressed purple (PATTERNED) paper!  I also cut the sentiment and heart from the same paper. 

I continued to use the sketch for this week from the MFT Challenge and Inspiration Blog, but instead of placing the strip at the bottom of my card as in the sketch, I placed my sentiment at the top.  It's a little different, and I think it works!

All of this wouldn't be possible without the Paper Smooches products, so I'll turn this in to this week's challenge - Anything Goes!

That's a lot of challenges wrapped up in one card!

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