Aspen and Tennis Anyone

Good morning good folks - the time zones have caught me out again and I am late..... 

The first card from the McMahon Five Designs this week is Tennis Anyone?

As soon as I saw this image I thought of this paper from the Le Chateau pad of dp by Kaiser Craft.  This sat well on the gray base I had decided to use.

Naturally I left his trousers white, but used chalks to colour his jacket  and a pale blue glitter pen for his tie - a wee smidgen of grey sponged at his feet, and pale blue for the sky and he was 'done'.

The whole was mounted onto cream card-stock but still looked rather stark, so out came the button jar and on went a corner full of assorted ones, and some doodled lines which make me think of tennis court markings.

So what do you think of this rather suave looking tennis player from

 McMahon Vintage collection?  

My next image is from Solocosmo Digi Stamps by Jessica Grundy, marketed by McMahon Five Design. 

I had one thing planned for days, but just before I went to make it, the idea of sepia tones like on old photograph popped into my head, along with a different layout, and this is what the result is:

Isn't Aspen just so sweet holding his frog toy?

I used a chalk to colour the main image - just one colour applied in different intensities. This panel was then distressed and sponged with Tea Stain Distress ink and mounted on very dark brown card.

The image panel was then layered over a light brown card which I doodled around the edge of with gold, as my brown pen would not co-operate.

To finish I mounted it all on a white base card stock which was distressed and sponged and layered with some dp from a generic pack I bought years ago.  (Yes I am a bit of a hoarder.)


I am linking these to:
The Paper Shelter Challenge #20 - Anything Goes - both cards 

Stampavie and More - #146 - more than three layers - Tennis Card

Bearly Mine challenge #13 - Summer - Tennis Card
My time To Craft #146 - summer - Tennis player
Art Impressions Stamps Challenge #22 - Distressing - Aspen
Charisma Cardz Challenge #26 - Ice Cream Colours - Aspen, Caramel Ripple
Moving Along with the Times Challenge #105 - Here comes the Summer Sun - Tennis card
Pals paper Arts Challenge #100 - Your favourite technique - colouring with chalks - Aspen
SouthernGirls Challenge - Bring out the Inner child - Aspen

I do hope you have enjoyed these images - they were fun to work with  and I really appreciate being able to work with these images.  Do  go and look at what the other DT members have done with the other images released this week - their blog links are on the side of my page.

May your day be blessed