CYP Challenge 134 - Photo Inspiration

Another Monday has arrived and with it, another Craft Your Passion challenge. This one has a bit of a different twist because it's a photo inspiration challenge. I've never actually done this type of challenge before so it was pushing the envelope a little for me. Gotta say...it was fun!

Here's the photo:

And here's my take on it:

I took inspiration from the sun in the photo but switched it out to the moon which became the shape of the card. I cut it from two pieces of yellow cardstock. On the top layer, I printed this sweet A Day For Daisies image, Spooky tree, to mimic the tree in the photo. The bottom circle was scored a half inch from the top and then set aside to become the card back.

The image was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and the circle was inked around the outside edge with two colours of Distress ink. A doodled border was added over the ink. A tiny black witch silhouette was fussy cut and adhered over the moon and rub-on lettering created the sentiment.

Such a simple little card. I am amazed that I actually only have one layer as the front of my card. Don't think I've ever done that before either...at least since I was a kid. To put the front and back of the card together, glue was added to the top half inch of the back above the score line. This allows the card to open without creasing the front.

Thanks for visiting today. Be sure to visit the Craft Your Passion Challenges blog for more inspiration from our design team. I can't wait to see how you interpret this photo in your design. It's a wide open challenge.

I am entering this card in the following challenges::
So Artful Challenges ~ Harvest Moon Challenge
Scrappy Frogs Challenge ~ Fall or Halloween
Sentimental Sundays ~ Challenge 126 Pumpkins
2 Sisters Challenge ~ Challenge 115 Halloween or Fall Colours
Crafty Mess Challenge Blog ~ Challenge 20  Halloween


Life is good; so is art.

Bonnie

AWNB and RRR Halloween challenge Week 4

I'm doing the twofer again...two projects for one post :) We are continuing our Halloween challenges at Art With No Boundaries and Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Invent. We've all had so much fun with this theme and these images that we'll hate to see it end.

For the Art With No Boundaries challenge, I decided to be brave and work on the first page of my brand new 9x12 journal. Usually, I do other pages first and then come back to the first page once I'm warmed up. This time, I just went for it :) I actually like this size journal because sometimes I want more room to play. I started by gessoing the page and then adhering dictionary page pieces with gel medium. Then I did my usual make-a-mess-and-create-lots-of layers background. I used things like spray and regular inks, stencils, gesso on my finger, some stamps, Pitt pen, FC Big Brush pens, Neocolor II crayons, punchinella, acrylic paint, etc.

Next I shaded the edges of the fun and funky CS Designs striped forest tree which was printed on kraft paper, and cut it out.  A little gel medium and the background was ready for the fruit :) The Shrunken Head 1 image from CS Designs was printed numerous times in different sizes (I love my digis) and each was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and fussy cut. They were mounted to black punched circles and "hung" on the tree with baker's twine. A sparkly sun, lots of doodling, a stencilled and cutout raven, drywall tape, and a crazy sentiment that made me laugh were all added. The whole page is a little weird but definitely fun.

The RRR project is an 8x8 canvas starring the lovely Raven Digital stamp from CS Designs. Neocolor II watercolour crayons were used for the background colour and then many of the same things listed above were used to add texture. The additional items used  to stamp on this piece were a piece of flipflop sole smeared with paint and piece of bubble wrap inked. Anything that makes a mark is fair game. I freehanded a tree shape on kraft paper, cut it out, crumpled it into a ball, and then inked the  daylights out of it before adhering it to the canvas.

Raven was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and then fussy cut. A purple rhinestone heart was added to her waist. Then Raven and I made her a nest out of recycled burlap, reclaimed feathers, leftover paper branches from another project, a piece of yarn on my closet floor, an old button, and a pearl stuck to my desktop. Raven was happy to stand in her nest while I added her name in foam letters, a canvas banner, and a TH keyhole plate. Doodling finished this canvas off.

These pieces were created with pure play....very little thinking, planning, and no second guessing. Try it - it's addictive. For lots more inspiration check out the two blogs to see what the DT and our guest designer, BlackDragon, have created. Love, love, love!

Thanks for visiting us today...and for reading this big, long post. I appreciate it!

Life is good; so is art.
Bonnie

SNP Dog-gone Halloween....the Sequel :D

I couldn't resist playing with this  Stamp N Plus Scrap N Peter Pup stamp, PP13, for another Halloween card. Once again I coloured Peter with Prismacolor pencils. I cut him out using a Spellbinders die which I also used to trace the black mat. The die the next size down was traced in Black Micron pen and then thickened to make a doodled type of frame. It just adds a little more interest to the image.

The background comes from my favourite DCWV Midnight Spell matstack layered on black cardstock for added visual weight. Orange grosgrain ribbon was adhered to the background on either side of the image and black spider stickers were placed on top of the ribbon. Two black threaded buttons were the final embellies for this CAS card.

Easy-peasy and fun to colour. Gotta love it!

Thanks for visiting Peter and me. We always appreciate your visits and your comments.

Life is good; so is art.
Bonnie

CYP Challenge #133 ~ Fairies and Fantasy

 We have a fun theme for our challenge this week at Craft Your Passion Challenges...Fairies and Fantasy. I chose to play with this fabulous image from Delicious Doodles called Fairy Fae. She's a beauty and those butterflies are so sweet.

I coloured Fae and her friends with Prismacolor pencils adding a smear of Stickles to her wings for extra magic. I printed the image twice but only coloured the butterflies on the second image so they could be fussy cut and adhered to the other ones just in the center. This allowed their wings to be free and created additional dimension.

Papers from Graphic 45's Once Upon a Springtime collection were used both for the background and for the semicircular element to the right of Fae. A doodled border and some simple cream matting gave it additional weight. A die cut lacy border with half pearls added was used to trim the left side of the card and add contrast to the vibrant colours. More pearls accent a doodled corner and gold buttons finish off the lower right corner..

Fae is only one of a huge collection of gorgeous images found at Delicious Doodles. To see more inspiration using other images, check out the Craft Your Passion Challenges blog. Fabulous projects by the CYP design team again this week!

Thanks for dropping by to meet Fae. I look forward to seeing what you create for this challenge theme. Bring on the magic!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Eureka Stamps #11 ~ Things With Wings
Make It Monday ~ Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody ~ Anything Goes

Life is good; so is art.
Bonnie

Chalk-Ah-Lot challenge - Orange

Although the leaves in this part of Ontario are past their peak and some trees are bare, others are still gorgeous and the colours are among my favourites. That's what inspired this card today.

 

 

I used one of the new Ardith Trumpy, As the Crow Flies, kids from Stamp N Plus Scrap N as the focal for my fall celebration card. This fortnight's challenge at SNP's sister blog, Chalk-Ah-Lot Cafe, is to include the colour orange and the SNP powdered chalk on a project. Before stamping this sweet image, I prepared my chalked background for the brick wall. I painted a small area of white cardstock with Buzz N Magic paint and then pounced into the wet paint with 3 colours of chalk using a scruffy brush. This paint gives a lovely shimmer to the chalked background, allows the colours to stay very vibrant, and sets the chalk so it doesn't rub off. When I had the colour blend that I wanted for the bricks, I painted a thin coat of the paint over the chalked section...more shimmer and more setting before I added the image.

I stamped Alice twice: once on the chalked cardstock for the bricks and once on white cardstock for Alice herself. The brick grout and a bit of shading were added with Prismacolor pencils and wee Alice was coloured with the same. The grass was coloured with a FC Big Brush pen. The brick wall was cut out and then Alice was fussy cut and adhered on top of the wall. Her checked dress lines were added with a Micron pen. Alice and the wall were then adhered to a scalloped circle whose edges had been inked.

The card base and circle were created with MME Reunion paper, with the BG matted on brown textured cardstock. Two pieces of brown grosgrain ribbon were wrapped around the background section before adhering the Alice piece with foam dots. Two silk leaves were overlapped on the right side of the card and chipboard circle  letters were popped up on the leaves. A brown button threaded with orange baker's twine and three small half pearls were placed in opposite corners to finish off this card.

Alice is a sweetie, sitting on her shimmery brick wall, watching the leaves fall. Thanks for dropping by. Be sure to hop over to the Chalk-Ah-Lot Cafe blog to see what other inspiration Cindy has in store for this challenge. I'm really enjoying these chalks and the Buzz N Magic paint. I wasn't a fan of the pressed palette chalks but these give me so many options for techniques that I'm lovin' them.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Crafty Cardmakers #77 ~  Autumn
Forever Friends #47 ~ Autumn
Kaboodle Doodles #142 ~ Fall


Life is good; so is art.


Bonnie

Cutie-Pie Witch

Happy Friday! Just one more sleep 'til my birthday! LOL

I'm still in the Halloween mood, so I thought I'd create a cute Halloween card using  two Tiddly Inks images and a sentiment. I used Witchy Wryn which I coloured with Prismacolor pencils and dotted with acrylic paint. A small twine bow was added to Wryn's broom.

I also coloured the Twisty Tree digital image with Prismas and then watercoloured the background with Neocolor II watercolour crayons. I inked generously around the edges of the tree segment with Black Soot and then layered a fussy cut Wryn on top so that she and Miss Kitty were standing in front of the tree. The third image used was the Born to Spook sentiment which was a freebie (thank you!) from Tiddly Inks. This I printed on patterned paper which I then punched, and inked/faux stitched the edge. The sentiment was then matted in black cardstock and popped up on foam dots.

To complete the scene, a moon was punched from yellow textured paper and glued to the upper left corner of the background. A photo corner was punched and adhered to the right top corner with a nailhead sticker as an accent. Doodling was done around the outside of the scene and spider stickers were adhered and given doodled web strings.

The scene was adhered to purple and silver spider paper from the DCWV Midnight Spells matstack and the entire scene and borders were then adhered to the card front. I just love Wryn and think she is such a sweet little witch along with her wee frog and cat. What a fun way to spend an afternoon!

I'm entering this in the following challenges:
Tiddly Inks Challenge #96~ Halloween
Little Miss Muffet challenges #46 ~ Halooween colours (orange, black, purple & green)
Fab n Funky Challenge #143 ~ Orange, Black & Choice

Thanks for visiting today. Wryn and I appreciate it.

Life is good; so is art.
Bonnie

SNP Dog-gone Halloween

Happy Wednesday!

With Halloween quickly approaching, I thought I'd better seize the moment to have some playtime with my Halloween images from Stamp N Plus Scrap N. This little guy, Peter Pup PP17, cracks me up with his mask, cape, and "doggie bag". He was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and cut out with a Memory Box ticket die. Black lines were added to the ticket with a Micron pen before mounting it on black cardstock.

The background paper comes from the DCWV Midnight Spell matstack. I've gotten a ton of mileage out of this collection of papers. Two orange tickets were adhered behind the image ticket and a threaded button was glued onto the left edge. The sentiment, Happy Halloween, was stamped on a scrap of green cardstock cut into a rectangle, faux stitched, and then inked around the edges. Nailhead stickers were placed on either side of the sentiment before popping it up on foam tape.

Just a CAS card using busy papers and bright colours to showcase this sweet image. Thanks for having a look. You've made Peter's little tail wag, he's so happy.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Oldie But a Goodie Challenge ~ Purple Black & Stripes; tickets are 5+ years old
Sassy Cheryl's ~ Orange & Black
Shopping our Stash ~ Trick or Treat
Eureka Stamps ~ Halloween

Life is good; so is art.

Bonnie