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With 2 design teams less, and more time on my hands, I've been trying to play in more challenges.  Here's a card I made with 2 of them in mind, the Color Throwdown challenge, and also the Muse challenge for this week.

Supplies: MFT Die-Namics Chevron Stripes, Simon Says Stamp flower from Best Mom Ever, leaves from Lawn Fawn's Flutter By, sentiment from Lil Inker's Darling Diamonds, papers from My Mind's Eye, American Crafts, and Lawn Fawn, and enamel dots from Teresa Collins

I decided I wanted to use all tone-on-tone design papers.  You can see them a bit better in the photo below.  I was going to put them on a white card base, but the reverse of the orange paper was adjacent to my elements and I liked them together, so I added it to the mix.  Choosing papers that work together is one of the things that I've carried over from my quilting days, and I still enjoy the process!  I stamped the flower 3 times, cut out smaller sections and pieced them back together again with foam adhesive to give a little more dimension. 

Here are the Color Throwdown colors.  I don't think I'd have thought to put the hot orange with the cool blues and greens, but I love the result!

And here's the card that our Muse for this week, Marion Vagg, made.  As you can see, I followed her sketch:

I enjoyed getting out these chevron dies and playing with them again!  Thanks for visiting!