Monday, March 7, 2022

BIRTHDAY SILHOUETTE

 AAA Cards Challenge has a new challenge out this week - Game 210, Sketch + Silhouette. Tomorrow is a friend's birthday, so I used the challenge as inspiration for a masculine card for him.


This image with three Kokopellis dancer/flautists silhouetted is from the very beginnings of my stamping days. They were originally attached to a wooden block, but I couldn't get a clean enough image stamped, so a couple of years ago I pulled them off the wood so I could use them with my Misti. I started this card with ivory cardstock. I die-cut a circle in a piece of light paper and blended Hero Arts "Butter Bar" (love that color) and PTI "Orange Zest" as the background shape. I followed this by a Tim Holtz spatter stamp with Orange Zest and finished with the three silhouettes in Hero Arts "Black Tuxedo". The sentiment is a colored strip of paper woven through a couple of openings in the face of the top layer.

I had this scrap of rice paper with Native American symbols on it that has been in my stash for quite a long time. It seemed like a good choice for an envelope/wrapper for the card. I reinforced the flap with a couple of cardstock circles and a black eyelet and threaded black twine with beads through it.





Thursday, March 3, 2022

#CARDSFORUKRAINE

The kind hearts over at Color Hues Challenge have offered up a challenge that is hard to not participate in - making a card to show our love and support for the people of Ukraine. This is a small act, but it beats feeling completely powerless. If I can be permitted to use  Nancy Leppek's (owner/creator of the Color Hues blog) words, we are "lighting up the world one card at a time". 

So, to the brave citizens of Ukraine, this is my offering to you:  

  


The colors of the Ukrainian flag are blue and yellow, and the national flower is the sunflower. I didn't find a sunflower stamp or die in my stash that felt appropriate, so I decided to use one of my favorite stamp and die sets from PTI: "Lovely Layers". I used Hero Arts "Butter Bar" and PTI's "Blueberry Sky" and "Enchanted Evening" dye inks. The sentiment is from PTI's "Beautiful Butterflies". What a perfect set for my personal "Butterfly Effect" statement in this time of chaos.

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