Coloring in Pajamas: Tim Holtz

Monday, 16 July 2012

Nautical Themed Birthday Card

I made this card for my husband's birthday. I often do a cutesy sort of card and this year I really wanted to have a more masculine card. I found this unlabeled unmounted boat in my arsenal of rubber images and ran with it. I've always wanted to do a nautical themed card and what better day to do it than today. The sketch idea came from A Die for a Sketch. I added a Tim Holtz gears die and added some fun blue eyelets, shells, and brad in the shape of a pocket watch. The image was colored with copics and sponged the clouds. The main embossing folder was from Couture Creations called World Fair.

I hope you have enjoyed this card as much as I do. I just LOVE it. The sentiment was created by me! I was so proud of myself!

A Die for a Sketch: Sketch

Crafty Creations - #178 Free For All
Everybody Art Challenge: #201 Summer
Joyful Stamper: Inspire Me Fridays 67, Anything Goes
Hanna and Friends: #149 Favorite Colors
Incy Wincy: Dust it Off!! (boat stamp, the wheel, the eyelets, and gears punch-most have sat in my stash for years)
Fat Pages and Cards with Attitude: #18 Anything Goes
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge: #163, Summer
It's All About the Vintage - # 23 Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey - Summer Challenge
Great Impressions: Stay in the Lines Coloring
Make It Monday - # 98 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping in.

Nicole

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Whimsy's Monochromatic Challenge July 11

This week's card was inspired from Whimsy's Challenge-monocromatic. I won't lie, the first time I heard I was to participate in this challenge I was deeply worried, but it turns out I had nothing to worry about. Actually, once I picked my paper and color the coloring came along pretty well. The image is called Hoody by Whimsy. The brown-ish flower was a white flower that I airbrushed. The yellow prima flower I also airbrushed to tone down the brightness of it. The flourishes are Tim Holtz flourishes dies. I used a couple of nestabilities on this card. The cute little clothes pins were also airbrushed. The printed digital paper background was embossed (digi background by Mel Stampz). There is a small touch of hand stitching on this card as well. The framed piece that hoody is on was deeply distressed first by airbrushing, then by misting perfect pearls for some sparkle.