CTD#466

Color Throw Down Color Challenge #466 - Plum, Olive & Rust

Spellbinders die, SU! stamps & Markers. 

I love this image. We don't have moose here in north central Texas. But we do have a lot of elk and deer. This is sort of my "go to" image for a masculine card. Right now there is someone in a hospital that I am "Thinking of". This card will go out in Saturday's mail. Hopefully my card will cheer him up!

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Betty J Schaub

CTD177

ColorThrowDown #177 - Black, Melon Mambo and White. It really is an elegant color combo! I used Stampin' Up! set from my KIT OFFER to stamp the little tea cups and sentiment. I stamped the cups in pink. I stamped the flowers in Basic Black and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. With my markers I inked up the sentiment stamp and then cut with the NEW SU Framelits Labels (smallest). While the cs was still in the Framelit I daubed ink around the edges. Added some black stitched grosgrain ribbon and a hot pink swirl grosgrain ribbon, a button and twine and three little hot pink brads. Done!

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Betty J Schaub
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Color Throw Down #166

Crumb Cake, Old Olive and Baha Breeze - Color ThrowDown #166.

Betty J Schaub
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator www.bettystampstx.stampinup.net

hello - CTD154

hello - this little Hootie is tellin' you "hello". This week at ColorThrowDown #154 they are challenging us to use Old Olive, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight and Dark Gray. The little Hootie was created using my punches. If you'd like to learn how I'd be glad to demo it for you and a few of your closest friends. It's all about Stampin' Up! here from the cardstock to the ribbon to the brads to the stamps to the punches. Enjoy!

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Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX (SHOP ME) 24/7

the sky's the limit - CTD151 Color The Rainbow

Stamps - Stampin' Up! -- Plane & Simple and Up, Up & Away
Inks - Stampin' Up! IN COLORS -- Wisteria Wonder, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade and Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango and Rose Romance
Markers - Stampin' Up! -- Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Cameo Coral, and Riding Hood Red
Accessories - Stampin' Up! -- twine, embossing powder, versa mark, dimensionals and rhinestones

Thanks for Looking.
My card was created for ColorThrowDown #151 Color the Rainbow.

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Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX (SHOP ME) 24/7

CTD148

ColorThrowDown#148 - Pacific Point, Garden Green and Cameo Coral. Simple as 1,2,3. I stamped the Bliss stamp on Confetti White with Pacific Point. Then I stamped Bliss in Garden Green. Then I stamped the butterfly from Strength and Hope in Cameo Coral. I added the GOD bless YOU sentiment from Crosses of Hope set stamped in Pacific Point and colored in the loops with Cameo Coral. Added some mattes of Pacific Point and Cameo Coral as well as Garden Green and a little rhinestone butterfly and called it a done deal! Stampin' Up has some really FABULOUS ribbons and some of them are in the CLEARANCE RACK section on my site.

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Color Throw Down #147

This week at ColorThrowDown#147 Kristin is challenging us to use - cherry cobbler, basic black, blushing bride and sage shadow. For my creation I chose to make a Christmas card using stamp #111760 A Cardinale Christmas. I colored the image with my Watercolor Crayons. I love this set and it was recently gifted to me by a dear friend.

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Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX (SHOP ME) 24/7

Gettin' Down on the Farm

ColorThrowDown 145 - So Saffron, Baja Breeze, and Pear Pizzaz. For my card I chose to smudge Marina Mist and Bermuda Bay ( I don't have Baja Breeze ink) for the sky. The grass is Pear Pizzaz and another shade of green to make the ground covering. The moon was punched and smudged with Daffodil Delight ( again I don't have any So Saffron ink). I used my Signo gel pen to dot the starry sky. The animals and the corn are chicpboard stickers.

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friendship - CTD144

May God look down from heaven above and bless your day with peace and love.- Thena Smith
This is my creation for ColorThrowDown #144 - pumpkin pie, melon mambo and certainly celery.

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dream - CTD142

ColorThrowDown #142 - basic black, lime green, and basic grey. I adore this color combo! The gals at Color Throw Down were playing with my emotions on this one. Green is my FAVORITE color and the black and the grey just compliment it well. Lime green, yummm-o! I stamped the Stampin' Up! Medallion in Versa Mark on my lime green cardstock. Then I heat embossed with clear embossing powder. It's there it's just very faint and I love that about it. Then I matted the basic grey and the basic black behind it. Added a border punch for the ribbon effect and then stamped my sentiment and punched it out with the Decorative Label punch from Stampin' Up!

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Betty Stamps TX (SHOP ME) 24/7

Tues Steppin' on a Wednesday - CTD141

I was s'posed to post this yesterday but of course as par for me I forgot. So here it is! This is my Texas Tuesday - Tues Steppin' card and I used the colors from ColorThrowDown #141 to create it. The colors are Stampin' Up! So Saffron, Rose Red, Aqua (which in my case is Bermuda Bay).
I stamped and heat embossed the So Saffron with SU set Wanted in Daffodil Delight ink. The tag stamp (from Co-TT Design Team Member Deadbeat Mark) was stamped in Rose Red then heat embossed. Using my daubers and making mattes for the ground, The Alamo, the state and the sky; in a circular motion I smudged the various inks. I colored the Alamo itself with the Stampin' Write Blush Blossom marker. Then I highlighted the stucco with Cajun Craze. I distressed the edges and daubed on some Early Espresso ink to the edges. The Alamo is raised up with SU Dimensionals. I added the So Saffron Grosgrain ribbon with a decorative metal brad.

You can see the rest of the Texas Tuesday groups' creations by clicking their links in my sidebar.
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Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX (SHOP)

It's a BTUtiful thing! - CTD#138

Color Throw Down #138 - Navy, White, and any color of your choice. I chose grey.

Stampin' Up! Products used:

Cardstock - Whisper White, Night of Navy, Grey

Stamps - King of the Grill

Watercolor Pencils and Blender Pen

Punch - Modern Label

Inside sentiment reads: Happy Father's Day

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Betty aka ZacksNana

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got fish? = CTD135

This week at ColorThrowDown #135 the combo is black, red, cream and yellow. I CAN handle this! Unfortunately for  you this is a retired Stampin' Up! set. But aren't these kitties just too stinkin' cute! I stamped them in Basic Black ink and then I used the Water Color Pencils #101879 with my Blender Pen #102845 to soften the colors. It's kind of hard to see but I studded the 'big cat's' colar with some little red and gold stickers. I used the Top Note die #113463 to cut the Basic Black cardstock matte. I matted the whole scene on Cherry Cobbler cardstock. The tag for my handwritten sentimen was created using a portion of the large petal of the Blossom Petals Extra Large Punch. Then I ran the side of my Cherry Cobbler marker all around the edge of the tag.

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Birthday Wishes - CTD134 - Can You Handle This???

Birthday Wishes - this card highlights several of my Stampin' Up! favorites - Elegant Lines Embossing Folder (119277, Punches (Designer Label Large (119862), Curly Label Extra Large (119851), Decorative Label Punch Extra Large (120907), Cardstock (Marina Mist, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie). This color combo happens to be the challenge this week at Color Throw Down #134. Join the fun and if you need any of these products be sure to shop my Stampin' Up! Demo Site HERE. There's only about a week left till SaleABrations ends. Remember if you pruchase $50 or more you get a FREE SET!

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Friendship - Me & Deb JJF

Weds. is play day for me and my gal pal Deb. So I designed these cards with my other gal pal Trish's Sunday sketch from my Yahoo.com group and the Color Combo from ColorThrowDown#132.
Lovin' These. Left is mine and right is Deb's card.

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Always - CTD129

Always - Stampin' Up! set Always #113620 and Old Olive ink. Ribbons from my stash just layered to go with the Color Throw Down challenge of light green, dark green and ballet blue.

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Happy Birthday - CTD126 & C4C71

Happy Birthday - I love this color combo presented this week by The Color Throw Down ladies. This week it was Danielle who tossed these beauties at us: Early Espresso, Kiwi Kiss, Marina Mist and Old Olive. They just work sooo well together. This card could go feminine or masculine. As I don't often make masculine cards I think I'll keep this one for one of my male family members. The dp, cs, stamps and inks are all from Stampin' Up!

This card was created using the Sketch at Crazy4Challenges. It was a terrific sketch and it really enhances the color combo!

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Think outside of the box!!!! - CTD#123

Ever have an "AHA" moment? Well, that's what happened to me today. Although I have used this tip before with my punches, when this card was in the creative process I had a few "AHA"s. You see it started out as a CASE of a card I saw in a magazine. Then it morphed into what you see here. Often times when I get going in my creative flow, I will have to stop midstream because I don't have a color cardstock or a designer paper to go with what I am working on. This time it was punches. Sometimes I get soooo frustrated because I don't have a die or a punch to fit whatever it is I am working on. Sooo the old cranium looks the situation over and kicks into overdrive. I take a punch and/or die and cut one half of my piece then I flip that piece around, carely lining things up and cut again. Below you can see the products I used. Next to it you can read how and where I used each product.

1. I used the die to cut the Always Artichoke matte for my accent piece (pink floral). Then I used the same die to cut the pink accent piece.

2. I used the punch on the left and cut my sentiment but it was too large for my pink matte. So I used the punch on the far right to cut the rounded edges on my sentiment. 

3. I punched my solid pink matte for my sentiment with the yellow punch in the top middle.

Below is a close up of my sentiment.

Now, next time you run into this problem you'll more easily be able to solve it. I HOPE! :O)

This card was created using the color combo for ColorThrowDown#123 - This week Kristin threw Always, Artichoke, Baja Breeze and Cameo Coral at us. She used a sweater vest as her inspiration. Hey, don't knock it till you've tried it!
My colors may not be exact but they are pretty darn close. Give the challenge a try! I know you'll enjoy working with this color palette and try to "think outside the box" with your punches and dies.
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Betty aka ZacksNana
Betty Stamps TX