Friday, February 14, 2014

Just Us Girls #228 - Colour Challenge

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This week's hostess is Sharyn and she has this fabulous photo for our colour challenge this week.  I decided to go with a rainbow theme and bring out the butterflies as these colours just made me happy :)

This week's Freshly Made Sketch was a great fit for what I had in mind.  I used Lil' Inkers stitched circle dies (love these!)  for a bit of texture on the circles and even managed to find some pink, gingham paper for my background.  A happy coincidence was the sentiment banner.  It was left over from another project and somehow managed to fall across the card while I was working on it.  I loved the look of the vertical banner and decided to use it.  A little freelancing on the sketch, but hopefully the FMS police are okay with it wink, wink.

The rest of the  JUGS team, along with our February Guest Designer Melissa Hubert, have some wonderful samples to get your inspiration going, so head on over to the Just Us Girls blog and check out what they've created.  Then put your creative genes to work and add your card/project to the challenge post on the JUGS blog for the chance to be chosen as the Chic of the Week.  Plus if you are chosen as Chic of the Week, you could be invited to be a Guest Designer.  

Cuing up for a very wet weekend - ugh!!  As fate would  have it, my son has two soccer games this weekend so it's going to be very soggy on the sidelines -- double ugh!  Think we'll come home, dry off, and warm up by snuggling on the couch as a family as we watch the Olympics -- go team Canada!!


 
 

What's In It?
Stamps:   Words Cannot Express (Verve Stamps)
Paper:  Love Me (My Mind's Eye), Yoyo Yellow, Only Orange, Real red, Wild Wasabi, Taken With Teal, Lovely Lilac (Stampin' Up),  
Ink:  Black   
Accessories: 
Stitched Circles (Lil' Inkers), Butterfly Punch (Martha Stewart), Twine (My Favorite Things), Black Half Pearls (Michael's), Button, Dimensionals 


16 comments:

Colleen Dietrich said...

GREAT take on both challenges!

Chris Dring said...

Bright little butterflies make me happy! Love your take on the challenge and that sketch! TFS!

Vicki Dutcher said...

Great use of the colors, sketch and I adore the twine! Fabulous line up~

JoAnn said...

What a fun card. Love the colored butterflies.

Benzi said...

This card says Spring and I like it very much. Can't wait to see some of those b'flies fluttering around this summer. Very colorful and wonderful creation.

Maureen said...

wow, great spring colours! It's just around the corner!

Stacy Morgan said...

So pretty, the vibrant yellow caught my eye right away. Cute sketch.

Sue VanDeVusse said...

Great how you combined these challenges! Love those pretty, colorful butterflies.

Karren said...

Your butterflies really pop against the white circles. Gorgeous card! Thanks so much for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches.

Lee-Anne said...

Great take on the sketch, Marisa! Beautiful rainbow of butterflies!

Nancy said...

Great job with the colors and the layout! Hope you didn't get to wet this weekend!

Sharyn Polesel said...

Great job with both challenges! Love the pink & white gingham and those beautiful butterflies! I'd love to see a butterfly today.....so tired of snow. lol

Bonnie said...

Bright and pretty!

cm said...

Looks like you could use some rainbows out your way with the soggy weekend forecast! Hope you managed to stay dry(ish) and that Olympic-viewing family time was fun! LOVE you card...butterflies, gingham, the sentiment...swooning!
c

Lisa Kind said...

Just so pretty! I love the rainbow butterflies and the layout!

Linda Callahan said...

Love those,bright butterflies!