Personal Challenge

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to win second prize in a give away on Sue Wilson's blog.  Sue sent me two sets of Creative Expression stamps - Vintage Sewing and Big Game Animals.  I was delighted to win and the Vintage Sewing set appealed to me immediately.  However, I wasn't quite as drawn to the Big Game Animals as I don't do much 'scene stamping'.

Being a contrary sort of person I therefore decided that my challenge was to use the Big Game Animals set first.

I uhmmed and ahhed and played with the stamps and the giraffe quickly became a favourite.  A bit more inking and stamping and I decided I quite liked how it looked stamped multiple times and decided that would be the focal point of the card.

I had started with bright colours - which actually looked quite funky - but the arrival of a stack of Tim Holtz Core-dinations card moved me towards the oranges and browns. I finally settled on Rusty Hinge, Dried Marmalade and Antique Linen.

I layered the stamped giraffes onto a piece of plain card coloured with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

I used my Cuttlebug and a bubble embossing folder to emboss a piece of Walnut Stain Core-dinations and sanded it lightly.  I liked the way it echoed the giraffes spots on the stamp.

I created and then printed the stand TALL in Craft Artist (stand in DuTomChe font and TALL in ColdSpaghetti BTN)(how cool is that font name?).  I cut it out and layered it onto another piece of card coloured with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

I used some lightly sanded Rusty Hinge Core-dinations for the base card and added 3 small adhesive pearls that I coloured using a Burnt Sienna Pro-Marker.  (How is it that despite having a gazillion colours of adhesive pearls I didn't have any brown ones?)

I like the finished card even though I don't have a recipient in mind just yet.