Please VOTE!!! ...and another thank you :]

Before I bring you to my eye candy, I need to solicit your vote if you haven't already cast one.

SCS has selected it's finalists for the Scrapbox giveaway and wouldn't you know our dear friend and fellow DT member at JUGS, Tracey Cuccia, was selected as a finalist!  She has BIG, SELFLESS plans for her scrapbox that I can't disclose right now, but she's in third place and we REALLY need your vote to push her to the top again!  Trust me when I tell you that you will be PROUD you voted for her when you find out what she's doing with her Scrapbox!!  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE vote for Tracey if you haven't already voted:

You can vote HERE
Tracey is known as cuccicoo1002 on SCS
Deadline to vote is 16 Oct 09 at noon CST!!

Feel free to pass this along to everyone you know and/or post on your own blogs!!  LOL  We will announce her intentions with the Scrapbox over at the JUGS blog if she wins!!

Okay...onto my card.  Wow...well, I'm only a few days late in posting this card!  My intention was to do it on Monday, but I focused on commenting on our JUGS entries instead (we have way more than we expected which is AWESOME) :] Then Tuesday, may daughter had a Powder Puff football game that I attended (and froze my butt off at!).  So, it's now Wednesday and long overdue...as are my comments on the rest of the JUGS design team's cards!

I needed two more thank you cards to finish the batch I set out to make a while ago.  So, one more now that this one is done!  I used the Color Throwdown challenge (CTD63) for my color palette:

...and Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge (MTSC42) for my layout:

Which brings me to my card:

Clean and simple, but I love how it turned out!  You should see what I was working on for the CTD challenge before I finally tossed it aside and went with this.  It was ridiculous!!  LOL  I was trying way to hard to make a certain image fit the colors and it just wouldn't come together.  After multiple attempts I knew I was trying too hard.  So, I cleared my head and started over.  30 minutes later my card was done and I was pleased with it!  Funny how that happens sometimes, isn't it?

**Update 10.15.09: I meant to post that this card also qualifies for the Crazy 4 Challenges...uhh, challenge (C4C6), to create a card with a thankful theme!

So, that's it for today.  Please remember to vote for Tracey!!  Thank you so much!

Stamps: Papertrey Ink, Out On A Limb Revised; Stampin' Up! Short and Sweet
Paper: Papertrey Ink, Kraft, Dark Chocolate, and Select White; Stampin' Up! DSP
Ink: Stampin' Up! Crushed Curry, Old Olive, and Chocolate Chip
Accessories: American Crafts, Medium Brown Brads; Cuttlebug, Swirl Embossing Folder