Color Combo #141

Max and his new guitar.  This weeks color combo inspired me to do a valentine-themed layout.  While perusing photos, I stumbled upon this picture of Max, Brandi’s boyfriend, from last November.   Low and behold, his shirt and hat were a good match for the color combo AND he was professing his love on camera for his new guitar—sometimes it just happens that way. 

Mocha, french vanilla, navajo blue, and red heat are the color names for the combo which were inspired by a cute handbag.   The picture of the handbag is posted at Color Combos Galore as well as inspirational layouts posted by the designers.

On this layout, I used the Sweet Treats Cricut Cartridge for the scallop border and the Pagoda Cricut Cartridge for the Love rectangle that were embossed using Sizzix texture plates coupled with Core’dinations cardstock.  I also used my Singer Futura to blanket stitch the layout—that’s gotta be one of my favorite everyday built-in stitches so far—and to attach the buttons.  Teresa Collins patterned paper were used for the journal strips, ticket, and red heart strip.  An Autumn Leaves stamp with CTMH ink were used for the little birdies towards the bottom of the layout.   

If you want to participate in the color challenge, follow the link to Color Combos Galore http://colorcombosgalore.ning.com/ and post your layouts there. Make sure you label your layouts with the color combination number.

Color Combo #140—Sweet Sunshine Rejoice!

Hello!  Head on over to Color Combos Galore to check out what inspired this week’s color combo--chiffon, white lines, copper brown, and sun’s grace--and to grab some inspiration from the designers. 

This picture was taken last week when we had an exceptionally nice, sunny, but cold, winter day.  Dixie and Dottie were soaking it up in the backyard.  I realized after putting this together, that this was my third consecutive layout utilizing puppy pictures--hope it continues.

I used lots of Cuttlebug texture on this--starting from the left, victoria embossing folder, ornamental iron embossing folder, floral fantasy embossing folder, and moroccan screen embossing folder. The heart die coupled with swiss dots embossing folder was used for the heart. I pieced the ornamental border together to make an almost 12-inch border at the bottom using a border die from the ornamental iron set.  Also utilized were some built-in embroidery stitches from my Singer Futura, along with some straight and zigzag stitches.   That machine is such a dream come true!   Autumn Leaves stamps with CTMH ink make the title. 

If you want to participate in the color challenge, follow the link to Color Combos Galore http://colorcombosgalore.ning.com/ and post your layouts there. Make sure you label your layouts with the color combination number.

Happy New Year! New Color Combo #139

 

Color Combos Galore is back!  Janet’s son received a Christmas card which inspired this week’s color combo:  blue skies, misty blue, tranquil green, and toasted olive.   I added just a touch of red in my interpretation.  The pictures were taken on our first Snow Day of the year, during the first week in December.  We don’t get many snow days as we live in California, but this Snow Day turned into two official Snow Days which hasn’t happened since we’ve lived in Jackson.  The snow stayed on the ground for nearly a week.  We used these days to play in the snow, decorate our Christmas tree, introduce snow to our puppies, and we kept warm by drinking lots of hot chocolate and baking Christmas cookies.  I used my Cuttlebug to die cut a vinyl snowflake, some quilted-back snow balls, and embossed these snowballs as well.  Then I used the Winter Woodland, When It’s Cold Outside, and Snow Friends Cricut Cartridges, to help make the title which was welded and brainstormed in Cricut DesignStudio.  The title was drawn first using the basic brown Cricut color pen, then cut out, and layered with the cuts.  A light blue Cricut color pen was used on the snowflake as well.   The blanket stitch, snowflake stitches, and buttons were added using my Singer Futura. 

If you want to participate in the color challenge, follow the link to Color Combos Galore http://colorcombosgalore.ning.com/ and post your layouts there. Make sure you label your layouts with the color combination number.