ColourQ Challenge #141

When I saw this week's ColourQ Challenge last night I knew I had to play along. The colours are beautiful and I love the inspiration image too...

As you can see, I decided the inspiration image was the way to go...and you could pretty much say that I CASED it!

I hope that you could tell that the sentiment is supposed to be a tie clip?! Also, this is another whopper of a card...it stands 7.5 inches tall...another one to be hand delivered though....so that's not a problem. I had fun making this card (I think that tie looks pretty groovy)....so a big vote of thanks go to the ColourQ team for the inspiration!

Hope you all have a lovely day :-)...

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Whisper White (textured), Night of Navy, Brocade Blue, Bashful Blue and Lucky Limeade (all Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Old Olive and Night of Navy Classic Ink (Stampin' Up!)
Stamps: Men of Life (Papertrey Ink)
Punches: Word Window (Stampin' Up! - retired)
Accessories: In Colour Patterns Designer Series Paper (Stampin' Up!), Rich Regals Buttons (Stampin' Up!), Traffic Jam Embossing Folder (Provocraft), Paper Piercer (Misc.), White Gel Pen (Misc.), Dimensionals (Stampin' Up!) and Mini Glue Dots (Stampin' Up!).

Blogged to: We Built This City - Starship, I Can't Dance - Genesis, Lola - The Kinks and Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5.

Homemade Thongs...

I hope you didn't come looking here for the wrong reason... In Australia thongs are what we call our (generally) cheap, rubber footwear. Great for wearing to the beach, but not the sort of thing you'd wear for a night out on the town! I believe that they are also known as flip-flops or jandals in some other countries.

Now that the tricky business is all sorted, the reason I am posting today is to take part in the colourQ challenge #138:

I was inspired to take part in this week's challenge after seeing a groovy entry by Jo Eades in my Google Reader this morning. Thanks for the inspiration Jo!

As the challenge image is a rather glam shoe, I thought I'd try and make my card a shoe too. This is what I came up with:

I had to sketch out the thong base and parts by hand, but I think they came out pretty well. I had one or two false-starts with engineering the easel mechanism for this one, but I managed to get it right eventually. It was fun, and very rewarding to have it work properly in the end!

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Poppy Parade, Kraft, Pool Party (Textured), More Mustard and Confetti White (all by Stampin' Up!)
Ink: Sahara Sand and Poppy Parade (Stampin' Up!) and Tuxedo Black Memento (Tsukineko)
Stamps: Birthday Wish (Stampin' Up!) and Flower (Misc.)
Accessories: Textured Embossing Folder (Stampin' Up!), White Gel Pen, Paper Piercer, Floral Dies (Misc.), Number Die (Misc.) and Rhinestone Brad (Stampin' Up!).

Hope the rest of your Sunday is quiet and relaxing!

Blogged to: Total Control - The Motels, All the Lovers - Kylie Minogue, Into the Groove - Madonna and We Are Golden - MIKA.