CHICKEN LITTLE

When I saw the challenge at Time Out Challenges #242 - "Inspired by Words" I knew I wanted to participate and to use a new stamp set I just received from Simon Hurley/Ranger "Spring Chicken" #HUR83351. I didn't know where I wanted to start so I used the latest sketch at Freshly Made Sketches as inspiration - but, bummer, by the time I got my card finished and photographed, the challenge at FMS was closed! 

The Time Out Challenge is to use a fairy tale or fable, or something read to us from our childhood as inspiration. I chose the folk tale of Chicken Little, who when hit in the head by an acorn, ran around yelling, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" It seems a pretty relevant story in today's world. 

I started this card with a white stitched rectangular panel that I stamped a cloud directly on from Hero Arts #CM357 set. Then I masked it and blended a light blue circle around it. I then stamped Chicken Little, colored her, and die cut her with an oval die. I blended some green ink on the bottom of the oval and then added a blended green circle below the blue one and over-stamped it with a Tim Holtz splatter and attached the oval to the face of the front panel and, using a black thin marker, dashed a curved line from the cloud to Chicken Little's head and beyond and attached a fussy cut acorn stamped from a very old Thanksgiving stamp set. I stamped another set of clouds from the same Hero Arts set with the small cloud, fussy cut it, and mounted it to the face of the oval. The final step was to glue the panel with all of the circles and oval to the face of the white card base and add a sentiment that I computer generated.

 

TIME OUT Challenges: Challenge 242 - Inspired By Words

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