Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Hello Chip!





Chip might be my new best friend, chipboard that is! Everything but the Kitchen Sink gals' latest challenge is to use box tops, and in this card I used tops from the generic Cheerios cereal, Captain Crunch with Berries cereal (because the box is yellow and not red!) and lastly, ummm, some case tops from my hubby's beverage of choice. Each box top had its own unique blend of bright colors and patterns and therefore I decided this would be a "modern" card and my VERY first circle card, based on the sketch at 2S4Y! The talented Sarah Martina from the design team inspired me to try my hand at the non-linear world. There is a whole lotta texture in this card and it first started from the indented circle rings caused by thee said beverage of choice on the box. I added some additional circle elements with the black rings and the clear embossed dots. I balanced out the off center butterfly by the three red chipboard dots. Funny thing is that the card really smells of Sharpie Marker, because that is what was used to color the naked chipboard letters and the white floss (I suppose I could have waited until tomorrow to purchase some black floss, but you know how it is when the ball gets a rollin'!)

Supplies Used: White Cardstock, Box Tops, SU Butterfly Die, Fiskars Chipboard Letters, Embroidery Floss, Creative Memories Circle Punches and Circle Cutting System, SU 1/2 in. Circle Punch, 1/8 inch Hole Punch, Foam Adhesive, SU Fun with Shapes Stamp Set, SU Spunky Spots Large Wheel, VersaMark and Black Stazon Ink, Clear Embossing Powder



16 comments:

  1. Lovely card! Great butterfly and bright, cheerful colors! Thanks for joining the fun this week at 2S4Y! :) Kathy

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  2. You did an awesome job on the take of these challenges! So pretty!

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  3. I LOVE that bright butterfly! Thanks for playing with us Kitchen Sink girls! :D

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  4. Karen, this card is just AWESOME! You completely rocked BOTH challenges! I would never have guessed you used box tops on this card, and that's how I know it's so amazing. Wonderful, wonderful job! Oh... and I do stuff like that all the time (coloring things)... sometimes I'll just ink up some of my white ribbon if I don't have the perfeet coordinating color on hand. :-)

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  5. Hello Karen! I wanted to thank you for your kind words and for visitng my blog;0) I also wanted to say that I absolutely LOVE these colors on your card!! So bright and lovely! xx

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  6. Great job on both challenges. I love that you used the "naked" box top. I had to cover mine in order to make it work. U did great!!

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  7. This is such a cool card. Love all the layer and dimension!

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  8. This is so cute and fun! Love that you left all the original boxes as is. Just wonderful!

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  9. What an amazing card! I love the bold colors. They work so great together! Also, I love the cards you did for the Anne Tainter, Moxie Fab Challenge....they were brilliant! Thanks for the sweet comment you left on my blog! Have a beautiful day!

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  10. What a fun card! I love that you used the boxes 'as is'! So cool!
    Thanks for leaving me some love on my blog!!! :) The accordians were made from a 1 1/2" x 12" & scored every 1/4"

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  11. I love this Karen! So bright and happy! Thanks for playing along with our challenge! I FINALLY came to just visit and add your blog to my blog list and found that the current post was for our challenge! Awesome!

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  12. So cute! I LOVE the big butterfly and what great colors too! Thanks for playing with us in the EBTKS Challenge! :)

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  13. wow this is pretty impressive - I think I can start getting into liking Chip a lot more after seeing your impressive creation.
    :) Kazan

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  14. very striking!! LOVE the bold colors!!

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