Today's Tea Party is for Beth in Arkansas. She is beginning chemo for Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Beth likes to paint and walk on the beach with her Golden Retriever. Pat is our hostess and has challenged us to use something that we haven't used in a long time (or ever?). I pulled out this Hero Arts Violet Border stamp and stamped a background that sure looks like DP doesn't it? This stamp has been sitting on my list waiting to be used for the first time for a long time, but I just wasn't interested. I forced myself to finally use it and then I was going to get rid of it. But I really like the look of my faux DP!
I've combined this with today's color challenge. Mary's colors were almost good for coloring my sweet Mo Manning golden retriever. I used SN EB5, Copic E08, and SN GB4. They did not blend together well at all. But it's an interesting funky color that I still think is kind of neat. Dessert for the color challenge this week is sunflowers and/or your favorite green. I didn't go for sunflowers, but I did add in my favorite green (Copic YG25). Two other things that I chose to use on my card are ribbon (which I have a ton of and don't use) and 12x12 DP. I always use the smaller DP, because I don't have a great way to store my 12x12 DP and it's hard to find what I want. I was bored with this brown ribbon until I decided to stamp on it to jazz it up. I just stamped with a script stamp and heat set it.
I hope this card makes Beth smile.
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Tue, Aug 18, 2020 @ 10:34 AM
Your funky colors on the retriever look funky fabulous. Love the whole layout and all the little extras you added by stamping your own dp and on the ribbon. Great card and Polly is right that this is a perfect sentiment for Beth.
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Tue, Aug 18, 2020 @ 10:37 AM
What a hoot...This will definitely bring a smile to Beth's face for sure! You fulfilled both challenges wonderfully! I'm sure sending this sweet card not only blesses Beth but you too in the sending of it! TFS
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Tue, Aug 18, 2020 @ 11:58 AM
What a lovely card, Jen. Your dog is adorable. I like the idea of stamping on the ribbon to jazz it up a bit. The brown and golden yellow is a fab combination.