Mixing Up My Card Game, Verve & C9

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A while ago (August!) I created my own personal challenge.  I cut up a bunch of little pieces of paper, wrote the name of a stamp company on each, threw them into a cup and pulled three out randomly.  The challenge was to create a card using products from those companies.  It was a lot of fun and I fully intended to make it a regular occurrence, but here we are almost three months later and I'm just getting around to it again.

This time I picked Verve, Concord and 9th, and Tim Holtz.  You'll notice that I only managed to use products from two of those companies on this card.  I had a plan to incorporate some TH, but when I was creating the card, I liked this panel so much, I decided that since I'm in charge of the challenge, I could make an executive decision to go with just two.

Such a simple and easy card.  I cut a panel of dark blue cardstock, and stamped it with the snowflakes from the C9 Snowflakes Turnabout.  I love Turnabouts, but for this card, didn't use it as designed.  I placed the turnabout in my MISTI and moved the panel around to create a clean and simple background.  The snowflakes were stamped with white pigment ink.

Once I was happy with the background panel, I heat set the ink, and then stamped and embossed the Verve sentiment.

I just love the simplicity of the card.  I think the sentiment and those snowflakes play perfectly with one another.  While I didn't follow my challenge to a tee, it was nice to pull out some older items and do a bit of out of the box thinking.

I'm still planning to do this more often, hopefully it won't be three months before I get around to it again!