Friday, March 1, 2013

Arizona colors

I was really intrigued by this week's "Your State" challenge at Speedy Fox and Friends, so I tried my hand at an idea my friend had while he was visiting. I have some cut-out masks from a cityscape project, and I used that to make a mountain like you see in Arizona. Although I now live in Maryland, I consider Arizona my other home... that's where my folks live, and where I was living when I met my friend. I used the same wood-stamping technique that I used on my Portlandia card to make the little "quail".


Inks: SU! Barely Banana, ColorBox, Versamark watermark ink, Versamark chalk ink
Wood bird used as stamp: Prima
Stamps: sentiment from Verve's Let It Shine set, cactus from My Favorite Things' Fred Bear Out West set, bubble border by Annabelle Stamps
Papers: SU! Whisper White, Core'Dinations
Embossing Powders: ZING! Brown Sugar, Lemonade Scentz by ColorBox  
Dies/Cutting Files: Card frame and Cityscape/Mountains designed in SCAL and cut on my Cricut, Banner die from a•muse studio, Button from SU! Embosslit, scallop scissors for corner rounding



Inspiration/Challenges:
Annabelle Stamps Challenge #157: Sketch
Color Throwdown #231: Melon Mambo, So Saffron, Crumb Cake, Lucky Limeade
CAS-ual Fridays #92: Stamp your own background
Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 148: Your State



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8 comments:

  1. Your borders look really neat! Very fun card! Thanks so much for joining us over at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge Blog!

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  2. What a fun card! Great design! Thanks for playing along with Speedy Fox and Friends this week.

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  3. Such a different approach to achieving a background or wallpaper.lovely!
    Thanks for joining us over at CAS-ual Fridays.

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  4. Cool Beans! Love your cityscape, and your frame is awesome!

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  5. Great design! Love how you created a frame around your image. Thanks for joining us for this week's Color Throwdown.

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  6. It's so cool that you used the cityscape to make the desert mountains! Thanks so much for joining us at the Color Throwdown this week!

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  7. Cool idea to use the cityscape as mountains. Thanks for joining us at the CTD. :)

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  8. Cute card! I love the stamped frame and the city scape, and I'm in Arizona! Thank you so much for playing along with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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