sometimes when you combine challenges you get amazingly serendipitous results!

 ...and sometimes you just get a bit of a muddle. alas, this card falls into the latter category, i fear:

(vintage: masked and misted book paper, battenburg flower, postage stamps; patterned paper: basic grey, pink paislee, mme; digi stuffs: house of three "spring junque"; pearl flourish: prima; loose pearls: kaiser; tissue tape: tim holtz; brad: my mind's eye; stickers: ka nd co, sticko; white glossy cardstock: ranger; border punch: martha stewart; adhesives: tombow monorunner, 3m foam tape, scotch gluestick, gluedots)

because, whereas i absolutely ♥LOVE♥ all three challenges i combined... which were city crafter's "ticket to ride" (use at least one ticket AND a mode of transportation in your design):

the beautiful, soft, summery current palettte at color throwdown (#194):

and mojo monday's sketch #243:

somehow, i think that i got so over-focused on trying to meet the various requirements that i sort of, in the words of my new blogging friend gini,  "forgot to ensure it made a pleasing looking card."* yeah. that's totally what happened here. :)

there are some things i really like about this one, though: the strips of tissue tape which make up the pennant-shaped bit of the sketch; the fact that i used up a lot of little leftover bits and bobs; and, especially, test-driving a set of colors i might not have thought of otherwise. so i'm gonna chalk this one up as a triumph of experimentation-- if not design-- and move on to the next thing! 

happy weekend, darlings! ♥

*for the record, when gini said that about these amazing cards she made for opus gluei's "sew what" challenge i HEARILTY DISAGREED; in fact they are every bit as beautiful as they are cool and original!!! ♥♥♥