Monday, May 10, 2010

Wicked Fun Mojo!!!

Happy Monday Morning to you all.. It's a beautiful looking day outside. The sun came in and woke me up a little early this morning, which is strange.... I'm certainly a night owl.

Anyway, feeling full of energy, I had a BLAST with today's mojo Monday sketch challenge!

I've been on a water coloring kick lately. I just love drastic contrasting colors, in front of the water color washed look.... For me, it's ooh la la beautiful.

I am however, running out of watercolor paper. So this morning, I decided to play with the write stuff designer specialty paper from Stampin' Up! This paper has the watercolor feel, and is already pre printed with and DIE CUT with some really fun designs. I made the most awesome discovery.... you don't even need to use it as is.... if you flip it over, you can use the cut shapes in WHITE and just use the back! So, if you're not crazy about the sheets that already have lines for you to write (like I am because I'm a scrapbooker), you can flip it over and use the cut shapes, then watercolor on them for super uber vibrant colors! Way cool!

So for this card I used, crushed curry, soft suede, ruby red, old olive, and for the sky coloring I used brocade blue. I used chocolate satin ribbon, whisper white taffeta, and crushed curry polka dot ribbon. for this design, I chose not to use the polka dots, because this is already pretty busy. Then I stamped my sentiment on the BACK side of some of the scratch paper that's left over after you punch out your shapes.. And I found a cute design, that I wouldn't use, but it looked great in back of my sentiment using the Modern Label Punch!

Nothing like the mojo Monday stretch to start my week!
Have a great day and week!

Rubbah hugs,
Selene Kempton

13 comments:

The Other Patti Sue said...

So cute! Love the ribbons!

Cindy Haffner said...

Oh so FUN!!

Debbie Henderson said...

Love what you did with the ribbons. Very cute card!

Anonymous said...

Lovely card I totally love the way you did your ribbons AWESOME!! Samanta :0)

Anonymous said...

YUP this card rocks! Love what you did with the ribbon--I've gotta try that!

Hi, I'm Lee Conrey! said...

This card is "Wicked" Awesome!!!! Love it!!!

Andrea L - EnchantINK said...

Oooooh! Just had to bookmark this one for the ribbon idea! Super clever idea, Selene! xxAxx

Unknown said...

WOW!!!! This is just awesome!!! I think I need to try this wicked cool ribbon effect too!!!

KellyRae said...

The ribbon idea is great, and thanks for that tip about using the backside of the kit paper. Awesome idea.

Tami Black said...

This is one fantastic card -- I love that ribbon treatment. I also love the picture of you and Alexis -- she is definitely yours!

Jeanette said...

I just love the ribbon treatment.

Radha said...

Aww:))
So so beautiful the ribbon, the color:))
Well done!

Anonymous said...

nice work with the mojo sketch! Those flowers are beautiful!
P.S. Come check out our new challenge blog!
First challenge starts May 23(next Sunday.) Hope to see you there!
xo Kelli