First of all, recognition is in order for Susan Raihala of Simplicity. Not only did Susan start our weekly challenges, but she has done a wonderful job of managing it and visiting all our blogs to comment on our entries. Kudos, Susan, for a job well done and appreciated!
The real challenge, however, is in knowing when to withdraw from something even when it is going well. I had to learn this myself several years ago, and I know the agonizing that one goes through when making this kind of decision. After all, there's a time to move on in order to pursue other things in life.
One Layer Wednesday will continue for a time with Jennifer Styles partnering with Susan to keep the challenges going. Jennifer's challenge for this week is to create a winter holiday card without using Cream, White, Red or Green cardstock for the base. I can't think of anything more non-traditional than Soft Suede, which is how I came up with the start of this card. After embossing the poinsettia in gold, I colored in the flower with a peach chalk, with black chalk toward the middle. I then added black sparkle glitter in the center. The sentiment is done with black embossing powder which also helps to make it a little more readable against the dark cardstock.
Thank you Jennifer for volunteering to help keep One Layer Wednesday going!
6 comments:
This is a lovely card, very festive!
Good job on the challenge!
Doris, this is so elegant! The gold embossing is so striking against the Soft Suede!
soft suede is such a non-traditional color for a christmas card but you have made it look like it belongs in the holiday line-up of colors-great card doris
Hi Doris
This is such an elegant card. I love the image and the greeting. It may be non-traditional, but it works so well.
Doris, you did a GREAT job with this challenge and proved that SS can make a stunning holiday card!
Beautiful card! Love the embossing!
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