The Color Throwdown March Guest Designer!

I am super excited to share that I am the March Guest Designer for The Color Throwdown! Color Throwdown is one of those blogs that I look at every week. (I rarely get a chance to link up a project, but I still love the challenges!) Well, I finally get to share a card each Tuesday in March! Here is the scheme for today!

At first I was like, whoa! Those are some bright colors! What do I have that is in that color palette?! But, you know I have a vast hoard of stuff, so...

I poked around in my stash and found this paper from Graphic 45 - Mother Goose. I never had a chance to work with the collection for Graphic 45. I think I had switched to special projects when this came out, and I was not assigned any projects using it. However, they did send me some in one of my many packages. {whew!}

At any rate, I found red, green, and yellow in this collection and decided to make a "welcome baby" card. I don't have much call for baby cards as my close friends and I are all pretty much past the baby having stage. But every now and then someone in my circle has a baby or becomes a grandma! 

I tried to mix the color with white and cream, which is harder than it sounds! I am not sure I was very true to the inspiration photo, but I got all the colors in there! I used some really sweet flowers from my stash. I love flowers...they make me so happy!

I used some red ink to stamp a sentiment onto the postcard image. I love to find sentiment stamps in my stash that I can mix with pre-printed images. I don't always have time to color an image, so this works great!

And the inside. Sweet!

Make sure you go to the Color Throwdown blog to see what the DT has made. One of my besties, Melody, is on the Color Throwdown DT and her work is ALWAYS wonderful. Plus, my other bestie, Jacquie, (the queen of techniques and CAS cards) is the Guest Star Stamper for March! It is old home week! These two girls are part of my "special local group" of crafters. We are all set for our spring crafty retreat next week! Four days of nothin' but crafting, eating, talking, laughing, and....well...eating! 

Here is the list of Color Throwdown bloggers. Make sure you check them out!

Barbara Anders
Broni Holcombe

Joan Ervin

Lori Tecler

Melody Rupple
Tammy Hershberger

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

Monika Davis
Gloria Stengel – March Guest Designer - that's me!

Jacquie Southas - Guest Star Stamper

Cardstock: WorldWin Papers Original ColorMates Heritage Black, Light Totally Tan

Printed paper: Graphic 45 Mother Goose

Stickers: Graphic 45 Mother Goose

Doily: Wilton

Ribbon: Stampin' Up

Flowers: Wild Orchid Crafts

Ink: Stampin' Up Real Red

Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Vintage Baby

Adhesive: Scotch 3M ATG tape; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Squares; Beacon Fabri-tac