Hip Hop Hooray

Here's my card for this week's Color Throwdown challenge to use navy, white, and one other color of your choosing. This fun frog mini set from Papertrey Ink had just arrived at my house, so I went with green as my third color for my card using this week's Mojo Monday sketch.

I die cut the frog shape then stamped the die cut piece with the matching frog image. It's colored with Copic markers and set on a lily pad that is die cut from a piece of patterned paper. I like the whimsical look of the dotted pattern. The image is set on a white circle with a piece of navy blue cardstock along the bottom of the panel to act as water for the frog. I may go back and spray it with a little shimmer spray to add a little something to it.

The image panel is matted with a matching green circle and layered on a navy blue panel. I used the same patterned paper I used for the lily pad for the large panel on the cardfront. A piece of matching green ribbon is knotted around the panel. I stamped the set's "hip hop hooray" sentiment on a white tag in navy ink and attached it to the knotted ribbon with some olive baker's twine. The sketch has more layers than my clean and simple self usually uses, so it was a good stretch for me.

I mentioned in my post yesterday that I was going to watch the Washington Capitals off day practice at their practice rink. The rink is right down the street from a school that I used to teach at. Unfortunately for me, it wasn't there when I was working at the school! I forgot to take along my camera, but I did have my iPhone with me and since we were so close to the ice (2nd row of bleachers!), I snapped a few photos. I wasn't sure how they'd turn out, but with a little cropping and editing, they're not too bad. I won't bore you with many of them, but I thought I'd share two. This one shows the team's coach, Bruce Boudreau (in the track suit, watching the players complete a drill).


This one is the team's (and NHL's) big superstar, Alex Ovechkin. I think in Washington we sometimes forget just how lucky we are to get to watch Ovi play on a regular basis--he's amazing! I've been lucky enough to see lots of the "greats" like Gretzky, Lemieux, Messier, Jagr, and Yzerman play in person and Ovi is definitely part of that elite group. I'm looking forward to watching the game this afternoon and hoping that the Caps can finish the series out by defeating the Rangers.


Materials Used:
Boy Basics: Frog Hop stamp set, Enchanted Evening ink, Enchanted Evening and Simply Chartreuse cardstock, Frog Hop and medium scallop border dies, Simply Chartreuse grosgrain ribbon (Papertrey Ink); white cardstock (Taylored Expressions); Quite Contrary designer paper (My Mind's Eye); Memento Tuxedo Black ink (Tsukineko); markers (Copic); circle dies (Spellbinders); tag punch (Fiskars); baker's twine (Timeless Twine); foam tape