Tuesday, March 9, 2010

365 Cards - Day 10 - Wacky Color Wednesday!

Aloha and E Komo Mai (Hello and Welcome) to my first official post as a member of the 365 Cards Design Team!!!
   Woohoo! 
This is the place that I found my groove as a card maker and I hope I can inspire you to do the same (or keep yours going as that can sometimes be a problem too!).
Anywhoo, I got the awesome challenge of Wacky Color Wednesday (orange, purple, and blue ) during this super fun Stretch n' Bubbles week! Well, can't say that I use orange or purple too often (except at Halloween!), but I tried my best to do justice to all of these colors in this one. I had a bugger of a time getting a reasonably good photo of all of it. That purple metallic paper just gave me fits! It's kinda hard to tell but I embossed that layer with a texture plate from SU! That's also a layer of blue glitter paper behind the sky paper. The fun rocket ship image was colored with a Prismacolor Silver paint pen and Prismacolor markers of purple and orange. I put some glassy accent on the colored elements of the ship to give it some shine. The "flames" coming out of the boosters are the MS grass punch sponged with Tangerine Tango ink. And that fluffly stuff behind them...that's Malie's contribution. She tore up one of her toys so I had some stuffing to use as the "smoke"! Wasn't that thoughtful of her to help me like that?!? :)

You'll also find that I like to combine challenges so here's some other challenge inspirations that I used on this card:
1. allsorts challenge blog - Just for men: Well, for boys too...
2. Alota Rubber Stamps - sketch
3. Bee Crafty - embossing + digi image
5. Creative Belli - Eyelets
6. Creative Card Crew - Celebration's: Birthday!
8. One stop Craft challenge - Sew Simple: use real of faux stitching: edged the cloud paper with faux stitches (thought that went well with those already on image!)
9. Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog - Something for a Child

Please, let me know if you need any other details on my project. Hope to see you back here next week!
Aloha,
P.S. Malie wanted her picture posted too , so here she is!

28 comments:

Saskia said...

Great card!

Saskia :)

TesaB said...

Super cute card, got to love that rocket! GREAT sentiments to go with it, and love the easel folding! You rock!

STAMPING SAM said...

Just as I promised - up early to see you first DT card on 365 Cards! Actually the headache and coughing fit helped me to wake up! My sick day is in honor of your post...got to say I Love, Love, Love your card. The color combo works so great with the rocket ship theme. I still think I small 'pic' of Malie would look great in the window...

Congrats DD - proud of your artistic talent and showing the world what we already knew!

ps Can I have this one for a refrigerator paper?

Love SAM aka MOM

Melanie said...

Great card - love the colors and how it folds. Your dog is precious!

Lisa Jane said...

what a fab boys card - i love the easel card too
Lisa ;)

Marie said...

AWWWW...What a nice boy card!

The Other Patti Sue said...

Super cute card! Love the picture of Malie!

~amy~ said...

woot woot!!!! Fabbie card!!!! Check out all those challenges...good grief, I pat myself on the back if I can complete 2 in one card...LOL.

Helene said...

Very cute!
Thanks for entering the Alota Rubber Stamps sketch challen

Rose said...

this is perfect and you got all the colors to work so well together :) looking forward to seeing your wednesday card each week!! and your puppy is too cute ;)

Lisa Foster said...

Oh How cute is this!!! Wonderful, adorable card! Makes me smile! :)
Thanks for playing along with us at Delightful Sketches and Challenges!
Hugs,
Lisa

Hannah said...

oh my gosh! I love how you used that fiberfill stuff for the smoke!! too clever :-)

Katie said...

Congrats on your new position!
Super cute card, love the colors!
Thanks for playing at Delightful Sketches and Challenges.

Tracy said...

Loving your rocket card and cute piccy of Malie!
Thank you for joining us this week over at Creative Inspirations and goodluck.
Hugs
Tracy
xxx

Queen La Rubba said...

BLAST OFF! Too wonderful! Any lil' kis wouldlove this super rocket card! Thank you for joining us for ths weeks "Sweet Stampin" challange! Looking forward to seeing more of your crafty work in the future!
HUGS
Rach ~ Queen La Rubba
Hop on over and enter in my candy give away!

gina g said...

Lovely card. Thanks for joining the OSCC this week. luv gina xx

Lori said...

Great colors for the image! What a cute fur baby you have!

Sweet Paper Bliss said...

You did the colors justice. I haven't decided if I will do this one. I need to get my head wrapped around the colors a little more.

Suzi Mac said...

Great card for a little boy. Love the design and the colours. Thank you for joining us at OSCC this week, good luck in the draw. Hugs Suzi x

Suzi Mac said...

Fabulous, love the design and the image. Great boys card. Thank you for joining us at Creative Inspirations this week, good luck in the draw. Hugs Suzi x

Wendy Hall said...

This is sooooooo cute!! Thanks for playing along with us at Delightful Sketches and Challenges!

Jammie said...

Kim you crack me up!!! Yeah, I should have just stayed addicted, but I read that having your coffee each morning, with a teaspoon of sugar and cream; makes for 7 lbs of weight gain in a year!!! wow, I'm trying to get healthy again, so i'll get re-addicted once i'm "healthy" and can counter the sugar and cream! hahahaha for now, I'm working on my addiction to the gym, not as easy as coffee! hahaha
Super cute card! Can't wait for next wednesday!

Liz Williams said...

Love this cute easel card that would be an instant hit for any little boy!! Thanks for playing in the Belli Challenge.

Unknown said...

hi kim, wow this is so darling, very sweet!

thank you so much for joining us at sweet stampin this week,i hope you will join us again soon
love emma xxx

Bee said...

Great card, love the metalic! Thanks for joining in the Bee Crafty Challenge :)

Fern said...

Congratulations on making the DT!! Your card is sooo cute!! Great little guy card!! Thanks for playing along with us in the Belli Challenge!!
BTW Malie is just precious!!!!

Chrissy D said...

Your puppy is SOOOOO Cute! Your card is wonderful too! Congratulations on the new DT! Thanks for joining us in the Belli Challenge! Join us again tomorrow!

Mandy said...

Your puppy is adorable.
Great male card, love the image.
Thanks for joining us at Creative Inspirations
hugs Mandy xx