Two sites that I love and often visit for challenges and inspiration are
Two Peas in a Bucket and
Birds of a Feather Kit Co. Both had color challenges this past weekend and I played along.
Birds of a Feather posted this photo for its color challenge:
I love yellow, orange and pink together, but this isn't a combination I often use on layouts. One of the perils of being a mom to a boy.....But I thought I could easily work this combination into a card.
I added a bit of blue to ground the card a bit. Papers are
Echo Park. Chipboard is
October Afternoon. Twine is from
The Twinery.
The challege at Two Peas this weekend was to pull together these colors into a project:
I thought this was a really fun color combination: sherbert-y brights and a deep black. For a challenge with this many colors, I decided simple would be best. I modeled my design from several projects I've seen with butterflies sewn down a column. Love that look. Laura Bassen, in particular, made a sweet card similar to this that I saw on Pinterest.
I posted my take on this color combo on Sunday, using a
Martha Stewart butterfly punch, papers from various
Cosmo Cricket collections and a bit of stitching:
A happy surprise awaited me yesterday at
Two Peas. Of the 658 projects uploaded to Two Peas in the last 24 hours, the butterfly card was the voted as the most liked.
The card also made the top three most bookmarked projects:
Sometimes, it really pays to go simple!
great work and i just love those colors!!
ReplyDeleteThese are BOTH GORGEOUS!! I loveeeeeee the colors and loving the butterflies on the second one!!! And CONGRATS on the 2p's shout out's!! That's AWESOME! :):):):):):):):):):):)
ReplyDeleteYou do the BEST cards!!!! Love the butterfly one~beautiful work on BOTH cards!!!
ReplyDeletelove the colors! both cards are very pretty!
ReplyDeleteVery nice! I especially love the butterflies :)
ReplyDeleteLove both of your cards Izzy!
ReplyDeleteVery cute cards. Makes me excited for spring.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cards! And those butterflies are really stunning! :) Great job!
ReplyDeleteThese are both so fresh and pretty, Izzy! I can see why the butterfly card was at the top of the list on 2Peas. It's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful! Of course you were voted tops!!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cards...love the colors!
ReplyDeleteI think you did a great job on both the challenges, and the cards! Love Penny Scrap-aholic@blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteThat's FAB that the butterfly card got voted tops! Congrats :)
ReplyDeleteLove both your takes on the color challenges! I hear on the color combinations - another mom of boys! LOL!!
I can see why it got top votes--great card! Love the color combo!
ReplyDeleteLove the cards and the color combos. Great job! I need to check out that challenge on TwoPeas. Thanks for sharing! :-)
ReplyDeleteGreat job on the cards!!! They are fantastic
ReplyDeleteGreat cards and congrats on the honor!
ReplyDeleteI believe in simple...simple is my style and your card is absolutely amazing! I love it!
ReplyDeletecongrats on your project being most liked! I love it. Color combos are so fun to play with!!
ReplyDeleteOh, I admired that card on 2 peas!!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulAtions. They are both lovely.
I can see how you managed such distinction. Both of those cards are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteBoth cards are so beautiful but the butterflies one is FABULOUS!!,big congrats on being featured!
ReplyDeleteWonderful cards, Izzy! Yes, that butterfly card is "simply" the BEST!
ReplyDeleteBoth of these cards are lovely! You know I love simple, graphic stuff and the butterfly card totally rocks.
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