Mountain Biking

 International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over an join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #86
Blue as the Main Colour

This fortnights challenge 'Blue as the Main Colour' has been chosen by me.  I love blue, purple too, my favourite colours to wear, to work with, to just be around.  I needed a card for my DIL, she is far from girly, in the army, loves woodwork and mountain biking and she likes blue too lol.  I know during lockdown she has really missed her trips out with my daughter mountain biking so what better theme to use for her B-Day card.

This card looks much simpler that it was to make.  To begin with I found a free image of a mountain biker which I then made some changes too.  The image was then converted to an .svg file and then brought into my software - SCAL.  I then created the text and label for the card also in SCAL. A combination of hot foiling with the WRMK attachment which works in my die cutter and regular cutting for the name tag.  It is a real shame that black foil I used looks so matt in the photo, in real life you have the lovely even texture of the card that you have with stamped images but a sheen of the black so different from just using black ink.  Once the foiling was done I then used Distress Inks for the background, used a gear stamp for a bit of interest and some black dots to represent gravel and help ground the image.  My real challenge here was with the tag - first hot foil emobssing and then getting the die cutter to cut so everything was perfectly lined up, so please it worked so very well (just a matter of great care not to move anything once the foiling was done so alignment was the same when the hot foil attachment was changed for the blade).  Certainly something I will be doing again, especially when I want shaped labels which I don't have a physical die the correct size for.


I am entering this card in the following challenges : -

• Crafty Friends Challenge 2W, 3E, - #138 - Men and/or Boys (W1 of 2)
• Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers 2W, C10  #162 - T is for Technique (W2 of 2)
• Sweet Stampin W, 2E, include stamping - Get The Blues
• Aud Sentiments Challenge 2W,E5  Must include a sentiment #253 Anything Goes+ A Sentiment (W2 of 2) 
• Sweet Stampers (M, P10, E3, use stamp or digi) #45 - Something beginning with B - Blue, Bike, Brakes, 
• Try It On Tuesday 2W, C5, 2nd & 4th weeks - Make It Masculine (week 2)
• Crafty Cardmakers  (2W, C15) #259 MASCULINE (WEEK 1)