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) 

Snowdrops

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 86
Anything Goes with an optional TWIST .... Easter or Spring Flowers

{create something that speaks from your heart and soul and screams you with the images you use

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

Fun time with digital :) :).  I used a free image of Ike's which was given away some time ago call Snowdrops.  The image was coloured digitally and used, not only for the centre panel but also for the side panels where I made a tiled pattern with the snowdrops.   For the background of each panel I used a texture overlay, printed and then mounted on the card with foam tape..  The text was also created digitally directly onto the card with the word Spring filled with the tiled snowdrop pattern.  A pretty simple card created mostly in my recliner while hubby was watching something incredibly boring on the TV hahahaha.

After I made the card I thought I would try something new :)  It has been many years since I bothered to paint my nails but recently I got into the gel polish craze and amateurish nail art although I am practicing hahaha.  Love that my nails last a good couple of weeks before having to do them again.  With having the snowdrops coloured digitally and some decal laser paper I bought last year with the aim of doing mugs I thought I would see if I could make nail decals.  A first attempt and several mistakes but a fun afternoon and that after all is what really counts.  So here  you are a pic of my nails, one hand complete the other awaiting the decals to be put on :)

and a close up of my favourite nail :)

Ingredients:-

• image - Snowdrops by IKEsART
• colouring medium - digital 
• from my stash - alas nothing but the white card and some foam tape  for the card, nail varnish, waterslide decal paper for the nail art

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• Crafty Sentiment Designs W, 1E, SIO - Flowers
• Creates and Makes M, 3E, last Tue - Anything Goes with a twist: Springtime
• Everybody-Art-Challenge 2W - #400 -  Anything But A Card (week 2)
• Creatalicious Challenges (2W, P15/last day of the M) #112 - Anything Goes + Option: add Flowers
• Use Your Stuff - W,  #259 Flowers