What's black and white and ........

 

 black and white and black and white?!
Two penguins rolling down a hill! :)

Hiya friends!

I know it's Monday and typically I have a card from The Project Bin,

but Denise is on vacation and gave us the week off!

Thank you, Denise!

Now - aside from my witty cheesy penguin joke,

there's something(s) interesting about my card!

The interesting things about my card today:

1.  It's black and white!

Like. just. black. and. white! 

  Gasp!

That's a color combination you will next to never see me make ~

not just for my LOVE of colors and pops of rich vibrancy ♥

But as a migraine sufferer, it's a guarantee to trigger an attack

so I just don't use it .... ever ... unless it's for a card challenge

(and even then, I silently cringe and behave like a good crafter should!)

 

2.  It's my CASE card for the Galaxy Gazers card group,

in which we pick a card from the Splitcoaststampers gallery and CASE it!

As it so happens, the card I added to my favorites earlier last week 

was chosen at the Featured Stamper :)

Her name is Mandy and this is her adorable glittery penguin card: 

And here's my CASE of her card, keeping similiar to the overall pattern

and the color combination, addition of 'snow' and using a penguin.

 What I made a little different is I changed the snowfall from puffy

to using the die-namic from MFT called "snow fall - horizontal"

(a wonderful score at their summer retirement sale!)

I used the penguins from Your Next Stamp because of all my penguins,

I really thought they were the cutest and most mischevious :)

My Avery Elle-ment wonky cloud die looked like the best scallop shape to use,

and the sentiment is from an MFT stamp set, 

completed by using Ranger white embossing powder and versamark.

I know it's a bit odd, chosing a b/w card if they give me an instant migraine!

There were a few other cards in her gallery that I could have chosen 

for the August CASE, but her card really spoke to me as if it were the one.

And it was worth at least giving it a good 'ol college try!

This will be a busy week on my blog so I hope you get to peek in

and see all the crafty stuff I've been up to! :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly