Just us Girls Challenge #700

We are invited to celebrate the 700th challenge with the folks at Just us Girls this week!  And I could hardly wait to get started on my card using Lisa K.'s colors! 

 

Inspiration abounds from their design team every week - this week I was smitten by the birds Elizabeth shared with us - here is where her card took me today...

Grey is my neutral today - navy is a blue after all!  I nearly forgot the kraft/tan - I was

really happy how this panel looked mounted on a kraft card base.

I have been wanting to make another of these gorgeous Cranes ... the colors in the challenge worked out great for it.  As Elizabeth's card has honored those with cancer, mine will be heading to a dear friend who is waging her own battle with it.

Congratulations, to the entire JUGS team - I'm delighted for you and look forward to another 700 challenges!

=] Michele

Altenew: Red-Crowned Crane layering die set

Lil' Inker's wood grained cover plate - no longer available

EH: Landscapes die set

Spellbinders: Betterpress - A Little Message sentiment plates

Color Hues #62

My friend Cindy Beach is the host with the most beautiful color combination for us at Color Hues #62: Purple and Green!  Okay, I know, and you know the first thought is to reach for florals as did the entire CH team - and they are absolutely  gorgeous!  But I had a different idea - are you surprised? lol.

You'd have to see that I've taken artistic license with the star of my card - and Cindy probably won't see a Crane in this color - but she did give an order to have fun...

I've taken my cloud color cues from my husband's photos of our lighting last night!

These are the inks I've used with an old MFT cloud stencil:

This gorgeous Altenew Red-Crowned Crane is going to collect frequent flier miles

at my place - isn't he just fabulous??

A few Spellbinders dies [GLP-366 and S5-527] came into play with a duo of greens to create my marshy area.  A third green: CP Melon Ice, was used to stamp this 

PF Perfect Sentiments stamp and die set.  

 Hope you have had a great weekend and there was a little bit of crafting involved!

=] Michele