New Pinwheel Die...from that Lil Inker we all know and love!

Hi all!  Happy Wednesday to ya!  Hopefully you are having an awesome week!  Mine...ehh...could be better.  Had to take leave today, VERY last minute, so that I could take my car to the shop.  My daughter came home late on Monday night and told me something was wrong with my car.  Ugh...the kind of thing you don't want to hear from your 16 year old...BUT, I'd much rather hear that from HER, than a call from the police telling me she's hurt.  So, I count my blessings, and look forward to my car being repaired by tomorrow afternoon.  $600 later...but at least I'm not upside down in the value of my car and I could actually make some money if I sold it tomorrow (after it's fixed).  :O) 

So, since we're looking at the glass half full, let's also take a look at this week's Color Throwdown challenge (CTD138).  This week we are being sponsored by the super talented, Laura Pryor from Lil Inker!!  The challenge is being hosted by Tamara (pronounced like 'camera') Hershberger.  Check out the FANTASTIC palette she chose!  I LOVE it!!

Navy blue is always a winning color when paired with white and another contrasting color!  It's very British, fresh, crisp...in my opinion.  I chose to use a nice Fallen Leaf as my contrasting color since it was already part of the palette in the patterned paper I chose.  My floral, navy sheet is from my MTME Fun Flowers collection and the fun polka dots are from my MTME Darling Dots collection.  I scaled the digi sheets to 5x7" and printed them double sided on Georgia Pacific cs before cutting 6 pieces with the pinwheel die.  I adhered my pinwheel to my lollipop stick with a 3-D glue dot.  I threaded my two buttons with the same, fun baker's twine that I used with my sentiment panel (that Tammy sent me for Christmas :]), and adhered them with a flat, medium sized glue dot. 

My sentiment was cut with a Spellbinders Ribbons Tag Trio die, and my scalloped border was cut with a Fiskars border punch.  The navy ribbon is from May Arts.  Pretty simple, really, but I love the pop of color!  My layout was inspired by the Mojo Monday sketch (MOJO187).

This was seriously one of the easiest color challenges I've completed this year!  Be sure to play along and link up your project on the CTD blog for a chance to win one of Laura's dies and coordinating stamp sets (winner's choice between Sentiment Flags and the Pinwheels).  If you choose the Pinwheel die, be sure to take a peek at Laura's fantastic tutorial on how to put the pinwheel together, HERE.  So many cool things you can do with this one :]

Okay, friends.  That's all I have for you today, but be sure to swing by the CTD gals' blogs to check out their fab projects!  Swing by Kisa's blog also...she's been feeling crafty and sneaking in projects each week ;]

Thanks for stopping by today.