Another Digital Two for Tuesday GD spot and MMSC# 69

Thank you for calling by - I love to see that you have visited. Today I am able to share some cards that I made for a Guest Designer spot over at Digital Two for Tuesday.  Cora shares the most amazing digital images sourced from old books, dress catalogues and the like.


She sent me the two images that she is sharing today, and this is what I did with them.  This cottage just cried out to be a masculine card, so that is what it became.  

I coloured the image with chalks, sponged the edge lightly with brown ink, and mounted it on a very dark green card. The base card was scored with the Scor-it tool.  I wanted a wee bit more detail, and as I had no brads, I punched some dark brown card with a 3/8" punch, glued them on and then put a drop of dimensional magic glue over them to give some shape and gloss.  What took the longest with this card was actually finalising the colour card to mount it on!


This is being linked to 
Stamping Sisters In Christ - Depicting Water 
Based on this scripture John 4:10, 13-14 (NIV) Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

The next card had a lot more detail in the image and the card itself - The image was coloured with a combination of mediums, but primarily watercolour pencils - I decided to cut into the image with an oval nestibility.  To mount it on the purple scalloped part oval was an simple decision, but when put against the lace that edge was lost, so I eventually added the green layer, trimmed very closely, before the purple.


The detail on the purple was a gold dimensional glue.


The base that the lace, and then the oval was mounted on was a olive/gold paper which I had run through the Cuttlebug fleur-de-lis folder, distressed the edge of and then stitched onto the paler base that had been sponged with a similar coloured Whisper dye ink, Mossy Stone.

The butterflies were part of gift given as a thank you for "cat sitting".   They lacked an elusive 'something', so I sat and scrabbled through all sorts of odds and ends until I came across the green bugle beads  which were glued in place   - they seemed to just pull the whole thing together into a pleasing result.


I am linking this to 
Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #69


Bunny Zoe's Crafts Challenge #3 - Vintage, distressing etc

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #75 - distress it


Thank you for calling by - I treasure your comments.


May you day be blessed.

For fun

Welcome once again and thank you for calling by.

I decided that I would make a card simply for fun - and with a couple of challenges in mind.  My starting point was an image I was sent in a RAK from my dear friend Linda, that has a pithy quote accompanying it!!

I had hoped to trim the total image to an oval, but it just would not 'work', so I had to go with a rectangle and a scalloped edged rectangle underneath it.

The colours took some time to 'come together', and they are not a colour combination that I would typically use being lemon and bright pink, with some blue in a background panel.




I wanted to put a focal point on the ribbon, but had nothing on hand, so improvised instead with a jewelery pin, some beads and a pair of pliers to twist the end with.  I also added some half pearls in lavender to accent the floral corners and one corner of the main image.  

This is the end result, which when looking at it again, still brings a smile to me.

I am linking this to: 

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge # 67

and 

Stamping Sisters In Christ Challenge #52 

                                 based on Proverbs 17:22

                  "A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones." 

This scripture holds so true, and I personally know that if one can keep a positive attitude in the more difficult times of life, and can have a laugh with a friend, life seems to be so much more bearable.

The challenge is to use humour in a card, and I think this fits the bill.

I appreciate you visiting, and leaving a comment - may your day be blessed.