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Sunday, 5 July 2009

The Pink Elephant Challenge # 21 Favourite Colour Combo


I needed more white card yesterday and so had to go to my local Paper Mill Shop to stock up.
It's fatal!
Why can't I go into that establishment and come out with ONLY what I actually went in to purchase?
I had received emails from them about a new range of goodies they had in stock from My Mind's Eye, which looked quite nice in the email, but when I actually saw them... well they were fab!
The variety which particularly appealed to me is called Wild Asparagus. The colours are just wonderful, vintage, muted and completely yummy. Some of the papers are double sided, some embossed, so I bought a paper stack, ribbons and some clear stamps. They have wood-backed ones too which are only 99p each!
The Pink Elephant Challenge this week calls for our favourite colour combination. I think that this mix of blue and brown is just lovely. The image is another of Chris Dark's digi stamps. I think I'm going to have to form a fan club. I just love her work. I bought a whole bunch more downloads yesterday and have really enjoyed starting to colour some. I think I'm going to pop this in as a second entry this week to Dare U 2 Digi Stamp as it contains embossing!
This a simple layout, using mainly My Mind's Eye papers, with a little plain blue for highlighting, chalked to blend in with the DPs. I added a small section of Cor'dinations cardstock, embossed and sanded to make the image a little more prominant.
I was quite pleased with this, I hope you like it!
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11 comments:

  1. Karen5 July 2009 at 10:08

    Such a gorgeous elegant card and I too love these papers. Thanks for joining us this week at DU2DS
    Karen x

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  2. mckinkle5 July 2009 at 13:16

    A really beautiful card and I have you to thank for putting me onto Chris Dark. I'll join the fan club! Love the Wild Asparagus now that Ive seen it made up.
    Keryn :D

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  3. Larissa5 July 2009 at 14:27

    Gorgeous card Chrissie! Lovely papers and you coloured the image so pretty. Thanks for joining us (again) this week at DU2DS.
    Hugs,
    Larissa

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  4. Chris5 July 2009 at 14:27

    Hi Chrissie, well I'm glad you decided to put this card in DU too this week, it's absolutely beautiful! I love the colour scheme and the sanded embossing looks wonderful. I would love to live a bit nearer to a Papermill shop, but in some respects it's probably just as well that I don't :D. I'm probably going to have to give in and get the Wild Asparagus, it looks gorgeous. Chris x

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  5. June Houck5 July 2009 at 15:20

    I have a small stash of Wild Asparagus...it is such a nice weight and gorgeous too. I love blue and brown too! Your card is beautiful; I love the LO and matching ribbon. Another fabbie Chrissie card :)

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  6. AUsome mom5 July 2009 at 18:25

    Beautiful card Chrissie! That feather looks absolutely real! Your coloring and that MME paper is just fantastic :)

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  7. Sharon (glitterangel)5 July 2009 at 21:45

    Gorgeous card - I've got my eye on those papers too, I just might have to treat myself now!

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  8. Zoechaos5 July 2009 at 22:06

    Noooooo just went to Newbury this week-end cannot afford to visit Whitley (hazarding a guess here)! Your card is so lovely great colours and simple clean lines, love it.

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  9. Carol5 July 2009 at 23:53

    Just fabulous Chrissie, i wondered where you'd got to this week!
    gorgeous papers and the image is so elegant...thanks for playing our challenge :)

    Hugs
    Carol x

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  10. LORi6 July 2009 at 02:47

    So very pretty!!

    So happy you joined us this week Chrissie!!

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  11. Michelle8 July 2009 at 23:16

    Wonderful second card Chrissie, love those colours too and you've used the digi stamp so well. Thanks for joining us at DU2DS this week.
    x Michelle

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Thank you so much for popping by, I appreciate your comments!
Thanks,
Chrissie