Gratitude

 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 #96
Gratitude

This fortnights challenge 'Gratitude' has been chosen by Maggie.

I love Maggie's thinking for this challenge theme as it gave me the 'get out' which I needed.  I don't make Thanksgiving card so when that is the theme it is often a wasted creation for me but by using the word 'Gratitude' instead I was able to make a very useful Thank You card instead.  You are a super start Maggie :) :) 

I do love playing with Alcohol markers and have tried them of a few different paper types to see if I could get them to work as Yuppo paper is pretty expensive.  This morning I came across a video, 'how-to create a background with alcohol inks on vellum' by Creationsceecee using vellum.  Just had to have a play and give this a go. Honestly I don't like the effect as much as Yuppo but great fun to do, useful to know and I have loads of vellum which I don't use much so this technique will help use it up lol.  Once the background was created I went down a very simple route of die cutting the flower our of gold card, and stamping the sentiment on more vellum.  A super simple card to make which was lots of fun and very rewarding.  A nice wee addition to my card collection as always needing a thank you card.

I am entering this card in the following challenges : =

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Athena

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 96
Anything Goes With an optional twist Mythology
{popular culture, folklore, and other non-scientific}

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 :) :) :)

A wonderful new image from IKEsArt, isn't she a beauty :) :) :) The image was coloured with Polychrome crayons.  For the background I masked the image and then used stamping ink to blend the green.  Next was to stencil some metallic green using a Sheena Douglas stencil.  I have the die that matches this stencil so the was cut next and covered with aged copper embossing powder.  To finish off some simple gold trim and a stamp which was free from a magazine.  Ooops nearly forgot the pearls lol.

Ingredients:-

• image - Athena by IKEsART
• colouring medium - Polychromos and stamping inks

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• Colouring in Scrapland - M 1st Monday, E2, winner + Top 3, No digital coloring, must have hand-colored image -  ANYTHING GOES
• Dream Valley Challenges - 2W, 3E, C10 - #162 USE A STAMP OR A DIGI (Week 1)
• Come and Get It - W, 3E - 2 more different Embellishments
• Morgan's Art World Open Challenge - 2W, E3, any image - No. 17 - (W1 of 2) - Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - W, C10 – No.34 - Anything Goes
• That's Crafty! Challenge Blog - 2W, E3, Prize only for UK residents, Top 3 open to all - (W2 of 2) Only Cards Challenge