Ike's World

     I've been playing in the challenges at Ike's World off and on for quite a while now and today I've done three cards, each of which has an image by Ike's Art.  I tried to do a combination of styles as each image inspired me.  Let's start with the felines because you all know those are favorites of mine.  :-D

     I went with fall colors and lots of layers and I used my ProMarkers to color these sweet little guys.  Don't they just look soft enough to touch?  I die cut the image with one of my older dies from Spellbinders, then matted it with another die cut one size larger.  The sentiment is matted and that's was the smallest die from that same set.

     All the papers are scraps and I believe each one is from Stampin' Up.  I punched the butterflies from the same dp as the sentiment mat and added them to the opposite corner.

     Challenges for this card:

Aloha Friday

Aud Sentiments

Come and Get It

Hiding in My Craft Room

Send a Smile 4 Kids

SUYP Cats Only

     My second card has Ike's magnificent Peacock and I colored it with my Lyra polychromos pencils.

     After coloring the peacock, I added glitter to the body and green part of his tail.  The image is die cut with a simple square die (QuicKutz.)  I found a scrap of peacock blue CS, tore part of each edge, and wrapped the fibers around it before mounting the image to it.  After that, I layered everything onto a kraft card base and added the sentiment and the flower embellies.

     Challenges for this card:

Angie's Digital Stamps

Colour Crazy Craft

Quick Quotes

Sasayaki Glitter

     The final card uses one of Ike's beautiful birds.

     To color this one, I used watercolors and a brush.  That was no easy task because I decided I wanted to do a black and white card with only a splash of one color and watercolor sets rarely have black in them.  I mixed several of the browns and dark grays together to get the shades used and I think it came out pretty well.  

     I cut the image plus the two yellow circles with a Stitched Scalloped Circle die from Die-namics.  The papers are all from the DCWV "Midnight Chic" stack.  I found that lace in my stash and decided it was perfect for this rather vintage card.  The final touch was the large, white bow.

     Challenges for this card:

Allsorts

Creative Fingers

Ike's World

Work It Weds.

     Thank you, Ike, for the opportunity to showcase some of your delightful digital stamps.  To all of you who stopped by, enjoy your visit and Happy Stamping.  NanaConnie

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