Mum Magic

Hello Blogger Friend! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with The Charmed Life Blog today. It is a beautiful fall day here in Pittsburgh - sunny and pleasantly warm.

 

We started our day off at church then went out to a nice brunch afterwards. Someone gave us a gift card to the Bonefish Grille. It's a chain but we like their food and they have a nice order from the menu brunch. Both my hubby and I ordered their California omelet. It was delicious.

 

Normally we don't order an appetizer but we also had a coupon for a free bang-bang shrimp appetizer. It was really good with just enough kick to it.  My hubby got it as part of a golf outing this summer. We had a nice time together and now we are home enjoying the day.  

 

I mentioned on yesterday's post that we were going to my grandson's football game. That was a great family day and even more exciting because his team won.

 

Now onto my card for today. This one I created for the color challenge #651 on Splitcoaststampers.  Karen was our hostess and she chose pool party, peek-a-boo peach and black. Optional was to use any green.

Black, peek-a-boo peach, pool party

 For my card, I decided to try the black magic technique. This was my first try at using a technique that’s been around for awhile. Here is a link to the Splitcoaststampers tutorial.

I used the chrysanthemum flower stamp. It is a stamp and die combo from CottageCutz.  I stamped in white craft ink on basic black cardstock. Once that dried, I used Prismacolor pencils in the coordinating challenge colors to color the image.

My birthday phrase is a die from PaperTrey Ink and I cut in pool party cardstock. To complete my card, I added some pool party seam binding and a bow, scattered some peek-a-boo peach enamel dots. To accent my image, I used a Stampin’-Up chalk marker. This accenting is part of the black magic technique.

 

Well that's it for me for this post. So until next time...…...God bless.

 

card details:

Stamps: chrysanthemum flower – November (CottageCutz)

Paper: basic black, pool party, white  

Paper Size: A2

Ink: white craft (Stampin’-Up)  

Accessories: : Prismacolor Pencils: #939 peach, 1033 mineral orange, 909 grass green, 912 apple green, 992 light aqua, pool party seam binding, in-color enamel dots, stampin’ chalk marker (Stampin’-Up), birthday die (PTI)  

Techniques: black magic  

 

I am also entering:

1.  The Paper Players has a tic-tac-toe challenge. I chose leaves, ribbon and die-cut.

2.  HIMCR #372 is a freestyle challenge.

3.  Sweet Stampin' has a spotty challenge.

4.  Colour Crazy Challenge has an anything goes w/coloring.

5.  Polkadoodles has an anything goes challenge.