Friends Having Fun Color Challenge

As some of you know I am taking part in LOAD (LayOut A Day with Laine Ehman) again.  So am doing 31 LOs in 31 days - well that's the plan at least....   But when I saw this challenge posted on a chat group I'm on I just had to give it a try as I am also trying to stretch myself creatively this year and this was a stretch then throw in the buttons and brads from the daily LOAD prompt.  But even with all that stretching I am very pleased with how it turned out. 

Color challenge - deep turquoise, terra cotta, lemon chiffon
LOAD prompt - use buttons and/or brads

Materials used:

Cardstock - Prism
Patterned Paper - ?? Seriously who makes paper with no identification on the back of it?
Chipboard Alphas - ?? All my alphas are just tossed together by letter honestly due to me never using them ;)
MM paint - Nutmeg
Brads -  from my stash
Buttons - CTMH & Fancy Pants

4 Footed Friends

This week the Operation Write Home Stars and Stamps Blog challenge was to use 4 footed friends on our cards.  And since that is one of my favorite subjects I finally did one of the challenges in time to take part...

This is one of my favorite stamps sets - Ruff Day from Stampin' Up which I colored using the Stampin' Up Water color crayons.  Cardstock is Prism, paper is ChatterBox which I've had for some time.  Ribbon is Making Memories, EK Success edge punch was used on the mat and brads where random ones from my stash.   You can't really tell but the hat is colored green to match some of the 'balls' on the paper.

Later this week I'll be posting a tutorial on taking that paper stash and making it card 'friendly'.