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.

Inspired - I think

After a quiet day Saturday and a Nana nap in the afternoon I was feeling great yesterday and felt inspired by all the challenges I saw via the 'blogisphere'.  


This card is the result.... not quite what I had in mind, in the end, but it is staying as it is for a while, and in the 'stash' as an any occasion card - I may even be able to add an appropriate sentiment under the bow in the future... 

The bottom right corner has been obscured by my white background cloth - it is still there, honest!


The base of the card is  kraft coloured, the long strips are from an 'el cheapo'  pack from the local Warehouse store, and have been run through the Cuttlebug embossing folder Swiss Dots.


All the edges have been sponged with Rouge chalk ink.  The dragonflies are from an Our Daily Bread Designs set Heartfelt Sympathy and I have painted their wings with iridescent red Twinkling H2O paint which just shows on the top right dragonfly.

Challenges that this card is linked to:

Crazy for Challenges C4C32 - 1-2-3 challenge

Our Creative Corner - bows

Our Daily Bread Designs Stamping In Time Challenge #7 - tearing

Flourishes Release Week Challenge - Twinches

Our Daily Bread Designs - Shining the Light Challenge #9 - Sketch

Thanks for calling by - I loved this sketch and have made another couple of cards using it which still need a few tweeks, so I may post them tomorrow once they are finished.


Thanks for calling by - I love knowing you have been and reading what comments are posted.  


May your day be blessed.