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If you follow my blog regularly you already know how much I love playing at The Play Date Cafe.
Here are this week's colors

I missed the last two challenges :( so this week I was determined to play along. It turns out that was going to be harder than I thought! I was on a hunting trip through my stash for gray paper, or gray ink, or well gray anything!! The only thing I could find that had any kind of gray in it was graduation paper . . .eek! Thankfully, amongst all the wonderful bright colors in the Jillibean Soup staples pack there was a 6 x6 sheet of gray :) After a hour long scavenger hunt I finally got to work :)

I started with a standard size white card. I rubbed dusty concord distress ink all over the front. Next I cut my precious gray paper to 3 1/2 x 4 1/4. I rounded the top two corners and adhered it flat.

I cut a piece of white to 1 1/2 x 5 1/2 and added some gray ribbon (American Crafts) I accidentally found this while looking for my purple ribbon,  I had no clue I even owned it  . . oops :) I added my purple ribbon and then trimmed the edges.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts, All Occasion Messages.

The flower was stamped 3 times on white cardstock and the leaf twice (both from Hero Arts, Layered Flowers) I colored the flower with my H20 pen and dusty concord. The leaves were colored with crushed olive. I fussy cut everything out. The flower was put to together with foam tape and adhered flat to the card.

I topped the flower off with some stardust stickles and a purple button.

So now that it's all said and done I think I like it enough to go get some more gray paper :)