Falling For You...

Today, I've created a card for the My Favorite Things Color Palette Challenge for this month as well as the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp. This one was a bit of a challenge for me because the two shades of grey threw me for a loop. I couldn't seem to get a handle on how much of each color I should use, I kept throwing off the balance by trying too much to balance colors rather than to have fun and make a card. It became quite simple once I remembered to have fun...

Edward Gorey is another of my favorite author/illustrators and he's known for his dark-but-still-juvenile sense of humor. That's precisely where I got my inspiration to have those poor little stamps in such a predicment. Those little man stamps from pictureshow over on Etsy are amazing, I've said it before and I love that everyone else loves them as much as I do.  They remind me of Gorey's work... They're perfect for Halloween cards, that was my original purpose for my purchase but I ALWAYS need to have some sort of way to reuse the stamps I buy because I want everything I see and this allows me to narrow it down a bit. These stamps were used last week to hang on balloons but this week, they're in freefall... poor guys, they can't seem to catch a break! Wait until they see what's in store for Halloween!!

For my tag, I got to use my brand new Pretty Pink Posh die sets. I had purchased a Stitched Duo set a few weeks ago and I just bought the last set that I didn't have. The cardstock behind the little falling men is from a new Crate Paper paper pad I just got, I was looking for some colors to coordinate with the Color Palette Challenge from My Favorite Things and I came across this paper pad and, specifically, this background. The sentiment was stamped with cheapy-cheap stamps I got from AC Moore months ago. The ribbon is the free ribbon that Ellen Hutson sends with orders, it was the perfect color and I had none of that color!

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