I almost forgot to create my Color Challenge card.  With Christmas, New Year and everyone home the days just sort of run together and I’m not sure when is a week day or when its a weekend – they are all the same during that time.  Gretchen wants us to have our challenge cards ready by Sunday night – well let just say that didn’t happen (and I’m not the only one either).  But I did get it done on Monday afternoon and sent in to Gretchen.  And today I get to share it with you.

We are on #17 of the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge.   Click on this link to go to the  Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog.   This is the inspiration that Gretchen gave us this week –

These colors make me think of birds and nature and the new Nature Walk stamp set in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini catalog that starts TODAY!  So that was what I used for my creation.  The inspiration piece has kind of a collage look to it so I went with that on my card too.

It’s a little busy – maybe I needed another strip of Marina Mist across the middle so the bird and thank you stand out more.  I’ll try that and perhaps add another picture to this post later.  Here is a close up of the details with a few things to note:

The eye on the bird is one of the Basic Pearls and I just ran the Marina Mist marker over it to give a blue hue – how do you like that?

I decided to make it look like the bird was carrying a tag in his beak with the “thank you” so I tied the Linen Thread to the top and just attached it right under the beak – it isn’t really tied to the beak at all.

The ribbon is Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding – also in the new Mini Catalog.  I decided to try the ruffles that I have seen everyone doing lately on their cards.  Needless to say I wasn’t very good at making a straight line across my card…

Yes I did go back and make a slight change to the card – and I do like this second version better – I added a Marina Mist strip above the ruffled ribbon so the bird and tag were easier to see.  Here it is:

I hope you like this weeks card.  I have been playing a lot with this stamp set and using it for several of my swaps for the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference next week – oh my it really is just over a week away.  Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

• Card stock: Marina Mist, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla
  
• Ink: Marina Mist, Chocolate Chip, Pear Pizzazz, Stampin’ Write Markers: Marina Mist
• Stamp sets: Nature’s Walk (Occasions 2011), Teeny Tiny Wishes
  
• Accessories: Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding (Occasions 2011), Basic Pearls, Linen Thread, Stampin’ Sponge, the little oval punch that I can’t find the exact name of right now, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Paper Piercer
  

To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.