Sunday, February 14, 2016

ART FROM THE MAIN HOUSE: "TAKE IT, MAKE IT" FEBRUARY CHALLENGE (1)

The February theme for the Craft Stamper Magazine "Take It, Make It" challenge is TEXT ME!  One can submit up to three pieces of art for each monthly challenge, so this will be the first of three posts from me today.

I cut a piece of beige cardstock slightly smaller than my cream card base and ran it through my Sizzix Big Kick using a Cuttlebug embossing folder called "Script." Next, I used a Tim Holtz sanding block to remove some of the color from the raised script. I adhered this piece to my card blank. 

My flower was cut from a scrap of patterned paper from the DCWV "Mariposa" stack. I added a bit of interest to the blossom by using a brown watercolor pencil, then blending it with a water brush.  The stem of the flower was adhered directly to the card, but the blossom was adhered using a pop dot to add a bit of dimension. My sentiment is from a set of cling stamps by Tim Holtz. To keep the brown-ish theme going, I used Walnut Stain ink.  I used that to edge the sentiment, as well.


Thanks for coming by today to check out my cards.  I hope you will take a moment to leave a comment.  I hope, too, that you might find some time to create your own artwork to submit to the Craft Stamper Magazine "Take It, Make It" challenge this month. Details can be found here.

Cheers!

13 comments:

  1. Your "text" is much nicer than most. Gold and lovely with the anemone flower. xox

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  2. Love your sanded textured text - such a subtle card - lovely!
    Alison x

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  3. A gorgeous card in both color and texture-love this!

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  4. This is lovely, Kay, and suits the theme perfectly. I always think "I'll enter this challenge this month" and before I know it, the challenge is finished and I've missed it again. I'll go and add it to my list of things to play along with - thank you :-)

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  5. A Beautiful card with a real organic feel ! Kay Love the sanded back embossed script and what an effective way to use a flower from a piece of patterned paper - at first I thought it was a stamp you'd use . Theres a lot of love here for this one
    hugs x

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  6. Gorgeous card Kay, I really love the muted colour palette too,lovely!
    Hugs
    Donna xxx

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  7. Gorgeous! I have got to pick up a scripty EF! How beautiful this is!

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  8. Great to see the CAs-style in this one; beautiful that tone-on-tone! Hope all is well? Enjoy your week! Hugs, Gerrina

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  9. This is my favourite of the three ! Fabulous design. Good luck !
    Corrie x

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  10. Ooh, love this. Love the sanded embossing and the flower shape gives lovely momentum. Hugz

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  11. Gorgeous card ... love the text background. Thank you for playing along with the Craft Stamper Challenge. Linda xx

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