Crafty solution to conspicuous electrical cables

This is just a quick post to share this fantastic idea from Unclutterer: Hiding cables in plain sight. This would be a perfect project for the Big Shot. I’m already picturing flowers and butterflies and birds floating all over my home…sigh. I also loved this piece of advice:

While flowers and pipe-cleaners may not be to your liking, this technique demonstrates how sometimes the best way to draw attention away from unsightly things is to draw attention directly to them.

Look around your home…what could use some creative camouflage?

Color Inspiration – Summer River

I recently received a hand-me-down 1st gen iphone and have been having a ton of fun playing around with it. I downloaded the Evernote app because I keep hearing how great it is at keeping track of the things that you run see everyday and think “I should blog about that”.

So when I was walking the dog the other day I saw these beautiful flowers growing on a rock in the river. I loved the combination of pink and green, so I snapped a picture and added it to Evernote to remind me to write this post!

Here are two color combos to work on from this photo. First, the obvious, which pulls the colors from the plant and the river:

Second, the not-so-obvious, which pulls the colors from the shadows:

So have fun with these, I know I will. I’ll post what I come up with sometime this week. Please share your creations in the comments!

Want to know how I picked these?

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Color Inspiration

Going to Trader Joe’s is always trouble for me. It is impossible for me to walk out of there without buying some delicious treat for myself. A couple months ago it was chocolate covered sunflower seed, which may just be the sweet treat of the angels they are so wonderful. As I was pondering the wonderfulness of the sunflower seeds I notice how fantastic the color combo was:

I’m pretty new to Stampin’ Up!, and make fun of my upline Jess when she starts seeing SU! colors everywhere. All of a sudden, looking at this container I started doing it as well. Chcolate Chip? Garden Green? Old Olive? Summer Sun? Is that Pink Passion? What about that other yellow? Hmmm…doesn’t seem to match any of ours.

I used this color palette as the inspiration a card that I sent to Jess with a little present I was sending to her. It is a bit heavier on the green than was in the container, but I liked how the pink and yellow help make the card “pop”.

This was a nice and easy card to make. Using the Dreams du Jour set, I stamped the butterfly all over the Garden Green cardstock in Chocolate Chip Ink.

I then stamped the “Dreams” stamp in Stazon on Whisper white, and colored it using ink pads and blender pens.

Finally, I stamped the butterfly again on Summer Sun paper, cut it out, and glued it on the card using Tombow Multi and Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Recipe:

• Stamps: Dreams du Jour
• Paper: Garden Green, Whisper White, Summer Sun
• Ink/Coloring: Chocolate Chip, Black StazOn, Pink Passion, Old Olive, Summer Sun
• Accessories/Tools: Blender Pens, Paper Snips, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Tombow Multi

Kristina Werner Color Challenge

My friend Jess and I decided to stamp in the new year last night. We live far apart so we picked a time to meet online and then stamped and chatted. Kristina Werner’s Color Challenge for this week was one of our inspirations.

I’m typically a card maker, but this Saturday I’m taking my friend’s daughters to go see Disney on Ice. Since there is so much pink in this challenge, I thought it would make a great scrapbook page for our girls outing!

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Inspiration

On the same day that I was inspired by my SIGG bottle:

Kristina Werner posts this color challenge:

Stay tuned.