Halloween Colors In The Romantic Style – MOJO 210 – PDCC 102

I have 3 challenges going on today.  One for Mojo Monday, one for The Play Date Cafe and one for my niece’s birthday card. I tried to combine them all and a little photo gallery will help you see how this card came about. Continue reading

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Fall Birthday – MOJO209 -The Shabby Tea Room 82

I am not a great fan of the color orange so I use it sparingly.  In a room full of orange, I will become anxious, depressed and twitchy.  What is that?  On the other hand, the card is for my sister’s birthday and she loves fall colors: orange, gold, brown…

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The Beauty of Fall – Play Date Cafe #100 – MOJO208

The Play Date Cafe and Mojo Monday challenges this week involve the color and layout inspiration shown farther down in this post.

These colors almost seem summery to me but fall is in the air and in my mind so I have to express myself from that viewpoint.   Continue reading

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Chopstix Box

Last weekend my DH’s company had a dinner at a 4-Star restaurant in downtown Atlanta. I had my attire all picked out when I realized that my purse is about the size of a steamer trunk…  All of my other small bags were either too glitzy or the wrong color.  This would not do. Continue reading

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The Black Box

This is a commissioned piece that is going out to in the mail on Monday to a friend of, let me see now, fifty-three years?  Of course, this is due to the fact that we knew each other in a past life because neither of us is, at the present moment, over 30.  Right, Pat?   Continue reading

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Oh, my!!! – Shabby Tea Room #80 and MOJO207

Mojo Monday (mojomonday.blogspot.com) is back from a well-earned vacation and there is a new challenge!  These past two Mondays have been tough without Mojo! Continue reading

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Missed Play Date!!!

Choices.  Life is just full of choices.  I missed my entry deadline for the Play Date Cafe Challenge last night. This was after several hours of struggling to get just the right soft yellow/lavender combination and just the right 45 degree angles for my border so that the design would form a partial frame on my card.  But it all boils down to choices.   Continue reading

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Blue Roses – PDCC98

 

Here is the card I created for The Play Date Cafe challenge this week.  The color scheme for the challenge utilizes one of my all time favorite colors: dark blue.  See the challenge photo as follows:
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Fond Farewell

Remember this one?  This is the card I opened my website with back in May.

You cannot imagine the layers on this card!  Let me run it down for you:   Continue reading

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Black & White & Red All Over – PDCC97

We have a challenge this week from The Play Date Cafe and, since the Mojo Monday folks are on vacation for two weeks, I had to do it.  Each month there is a challenge at The Play Date Cafe involving the use of black & white with a splash of some other color.  This month it is red.   Continue reading

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