Casual Fridays #16 and Off the Wall Craftiness #58

Good evening readers!!!  I've really been packing in the crafty time these days since school is about to start!  I can't believe summer is almost over!  Also, did you check out the updated header and design???  I hope you like it! 

At any rate, today I wanted to have some fun with fun colors and embossing, so I played along with two of my favorite challenge blogs -- CAS-ual Fridays and Off the Wall Craftiness! 

OTWC's colors right now are Navy and Coral.  Coral!  I LOVE coral, but I was certain that I didn't have an ink that I would call "Coral."  Thus, I had to do some ink blending/mixing, and I ended up creating a pretty cool looking coral on this card: 

What do you think?  I'm really happy with the result!  I dry embossed the background piece and then used a foam ink blender and blended Tim Holtz's Worn Lipstick and Memento's Tangelo over it, which creates a very corally color!!!  I also used both inkpads to stamp the sentiment from one of my fabulous Wilson Designs sets!  I added ribbon, pearls, and homemade coral resin roses to finish off the whole card!  I'm really pleased at how this turned out -- and at how simple I was able to keep it! 

I was playing along with two challenges today:
CAS-ual Fridays #16 - Embossing

Off the Wall Craftiness #58 - Navy and Coral

So there you have it!!!  OK now I need to get some sleep... I have a long weekend of fun ahead of me!  Have an amazing weekend everyone (and don't forget to check out my BLOGOVERSARY post!)