Sunday, January 31, 2016

30 day color challenge

30 day color challenge
I am so excited for Monday to get here. I bet you don't hear that very often, do you? I am excited because I am going to participate in my first ever 30 day color challenge that Kathy Racoosin is doing, starting tomorrow. I really hope that you will join in. You don't have to be a crafter to do this. It is a great way to sit down, take some out for yourself everyday and relax. I have found out that coloring is an extremely wonderful way to wind down after a long and busy day. I have been prepping and practicing over the past few weeks and am now getting extremely excited about tomorrow. If you join in, have a great time and can't wait to see all the coloring that is going to happen over the next month.

I will be posting a lot over the next few weeks, so I hope you don't get too tired of me :)

Have a great Monday

janet
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Color Throwdown

Hey there everyone:
I hope you are all doing well and had a great holiday season.  I can't believe January is already over - my goodness.

I have been trying to get back into the swing of things and knew that participating in some challenges would be the key to do just that, so to start off, I wanted to do a color challenge since I typically struggle with those.  My friend Broni is part of the Color Throwdown design team and when I saw the card she created using the fun colors this week (hint, my favorite color is included), I knew this is the place to begin.  The type of card I created, however, isn't one I enjoy making.  I have a sweet friend who had a special person in her family pass away a few days ago and wanted to get a card out to her letting her know we are keeping her in our thoughts and prayers.
Okay, on to the card.  I am using the colors from Throwdown Countdown #377, which is gray, YELLOW and khaki.  No, I have to admit, these were VERY difficult for me and took me all day long to come up with something (yes, I actually threw away several designs before I came up with this one) but I didn't deter, I got there finally :)  It's rather simple, but getting started back up was harder than I thought it would be, but isn't that what the best thing about a challenge is, keep on going until you get there and don't give up?  Yes, I think so.
I hope you will head over and join in on this challenge as well (the deadline is tomorrow) and know I will be back this week with the new one coming up because the Color Throwdown is helping me think outside the box a little bit :)

Have a great afternoon and see you tomorrow.

Janet


Supplies:


Stamps:  SU Wetlands; SU Love & Sympathy; Mint Owl Studio Thoughts & Prayers
Ink:  SU Crumb Cake; SU Smoky Slate; Distress Ink scattered straw and fossilized amber
Cardstock:  SU Crumb Cake; SU Smoky Slate; SU Whisper White
Accessories:  gray baker's twine; Spellbinders square die; craft foam; SU dimensionals