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Welcome back to the October Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop. If you are following in traditional order you are coming here from Sharon Hashimoto Burkert's Blog. I am Chris Smith up in Roseville, MN.
Our theme this month is a sketch challenge. We had two variations to choose from:
Since I've been playing around with the 2023-2025 In Color Jute lately I chose the bow version:
- I had fun with this card, especially making the embossed background. I applied Pebbled Path ink to the inside of the Distressed Tile folder before embossing a piece of Gray Granite cardstock. Before it had time to dry much I tossed some gold embossing powder on it just to get a little glimmer going.
- The overall color combination comes from a color challenge I'm hosting over on Splitcoaststampers this week. It calls for Pebbled Path, Lost Lagoon and Wild Wheat along with any neutrals. I think that Wild Wheat is one of the best members of the yellow family that we've had for echoing the gold metallic color.
- I separated the jute into three fibers and used just one of them for my bow. Once separated this fibers get a nice little "permanent: wave. Note that the fibers are short and it is easy to shred them apart at this stage if you work them too much. I'm sure that's a characteristic that can be put to creative use too!
- Our current mini catalog is so popular that here in the North American market many of the papers and embellishments keep going on and off availability. Luckily these little Blooming Pearls (I used gold here) are still available. I got an extra package of these because they are some of the smaller embellishments and that's the way I like them: tiny!!! Don't the gold ones look great with Wild Wheat?
That's it for me. The next stop on this hop is Brenda Miller. I'm looking forward to seeing what this talented artist has in store for us:
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