cocoa loves baseball

Happy Friday and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog.

So today was the royal wedding of Will & Kate. I didn't watch it live at 3:00 a.m., but I did catch stuff on TV throughout the day.

I heard the Brits are quite amused that we Americans are so enthralled with royalty. Oh well, I for one liked watching it all.

The card I am posting today is one that I made for the color challenge on splitcoaststampers.

This week Julia was our hostess and she chose the color combo of celery, baja breeze & bashful blue.

I liked the soft color combo and had a number of ideas. But, in the end I decided to use this cute mouse digital image from Sweet 'n Sassy stamps and make a baseball card.

It's called "cocoa loves baseball". I colored him with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. Korin has a whole line of these sweet mouse images. So drop by her store and check them out.

I used a Stampin-Up embossing folder and made a diamond pattern as my background.

The baseball field is referred to as a diamond-just to explain my thought process.
I also used baseball patterned paper and some other paper that had a diamond pattern in it.
I found the baseball glove in my stash from K & Co.

The layout was from the sweet stop sketch blog and that completed my card.

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Some other challenges:
1.  The art impressions stamps blog has a challenge to use an animal on your card.
2.  The wags 'n whiskers blog has a die or punch challenge.
3.  The creative card crew has a child's play challenge.

card recipe:
stamps: cocoa loves baseball (sweet 'n sassy stamps)

paper: su ww, certainly celery, bashful blue, baja breeze, recollections dp
ink: prismacolor pencils & gamsol
accessories: spellbinder lacy circle & circle dies, k & co baseball glove,