CSS Alumni September Hop

Welcome to a color combination challenge blog hop hosted by members of the Gina K. CSS Alumni team! Today the hop is featuring hand drawn sets designed by me and Theresa Momber. As you hop along, make sure to leave a comment, because on Tuesday morning (September 25), we will randomly choose two comments from all the blogs and two lucky individuals will receive a Gina K. Designs Stamps set each (the winners will receive either a set designed by Melanie Muenchinger or Theresa Momber).




Today's challenge was to create a card or project based on the color combination below:
Color Combo: Pumpkin Spice, Fresh Asparagus and Sweet Corn plus neutral colors (white, ivory, black, and brown) are also fine to incorporate.

Okay, are you ready to kill me? I totally missed that there was a color combo challenge for this hop when I was working, slap me now! But thankfully, since I made a fall card it is pretty darn close! (and, um, all the colors are in the stamped scene, so I'm just off a bit on my cardstocks!)
This sample uses the fall topper from the original Basket Additions and the wheelbarrow from the newly released Beyond Baskets set. So these are (ahem!) Gina K Pure Luxury Tomato Soup, Moonlit Fog, and White.

I started by stamping my topper in black and coloring with Copics.  Then I die cut my mat and left the die in place to sponge on some Memento Peanut Brittle for sky.

Next I sponged some Bamboo Leaves below.  Then I stamped the wheelbarrow over my image to overlap and colored just the wheel.  I stamped it again on scrap cardstock, colored, cut out without the wheel and  mounted with pop dots over the first image to create two layers of dimension.  Add shadows underneath and blades of grass with G99 and YG95.

Enjoy hopping! I can't wait to see what the CSS ladies will do with our sets!  Thanks everyone for hopping with us today and thank you CSS team for your fabulous work!

• Betty Neville
• Brenda Turner
• Cheri Weston
• Geri Utterback
• Joy Hadden
• Kay Simmons
• Linda Payne
• Melissa Cash
• Melissa Shultz
• Miesje Flach
• Sharri Seffens
• Tera Fujan 

Have a terrific weekend!

CSS Alumni Limited Supply Challenge Hop!

The CSS Alumni were sweet enough to let me join in the hop, thanks ladies!
This month's challenge was to create a card that contains only the following items and no others:

One Neutral color for your card base: White, Ivory, Black, Brown or Kraft (check)

Two different colors of card stock (check!)
One patterned paper (check!)
Three buttons (on flower centers, check!)
One color of ribbon (oops, does gingham count?! eek! it's just one ribbon, though!)
As little or as many images as you'd like (check!)

I inked over my flowers from "Wild at Heart" with a black marker, huffed then stamped them onto this Mariposa DP fron DCWV. I wasn't sure if the supplies were so limited that you couldn't use Nesties or punches, so I cropped my greetinginto a rectangle just to be safe! (Okay, now I'm wondering if my white and black count as colors?! hmmm...) This was my first time to try the gathered ribbon with Scor-tape, you like? It was fun to do!

Hope you are enjoying hopping! Please make you way over to Melissa Cash's blog!