Good morning all my friends and followers. Hope your day is bright and happy. Mine definitely is since this is my first day as a Design Team member at Tuesday Throwdown. :-) You know I'm excited and honored to be part of the new team. The challenge this week is sponsored by McMahon 5 , where you could win a $10 coupon, and the challenge is to use a non-stamped sentiment.
The image I used is Dog Watching and I thought he looked like he wanted to join his fish friend and have a cooling swim. The sentiment is my own ("Can I come in & swim?") and, instead of using a stamped sentiment, I printed this one from my computer, using using one of the many handwriting fonts I have.
I started with a sketch from Pixie Cottage,
and the colors from Play Date Cafe. 
Do You Stack Up wants to see embossing and I embossed the front of the card base with circles and dots (although it's hard to see in the photo), then added the rectangles of dp (DCWV), which had been matted with black CS. I colored the Dog Watching image with Copic markers and sparkle gel pen on the fishbowl. I fussy cut it and adhered it to a Spellbinders, scalloped circle die cut (blue CS), matted with a larger die cut from kraft CS. I cut a much smaller scalloped circle of kraft CS to mat the sentiment which I had printed and cut into a long, narrow oval.
I used a black marker to highlight the outside edges of the large, kraft die cut, the sentiment, and the die cut matting the sentiment. The final touch was the brown twine (The Twinery) around the card front and the flowers. Pixie Cottage wanted us to do their sketch and add some flowers and 4 Crafty Chicks wants us to use twine.
It would be great if you'd join in on the challenge this week at the Tuesday Throwdown. You don't even have to make up your own sentiment -- just print one instead of stamping it. You can print it with your own handwriting so you don't even need a computer, printer, or old typewriter (does anyone besides me still have a typewriter???)
Thanks for stopping by to visit today and I hope to see lots of you at the Tuesday Throwdown challenges from now on. Happy Crafting. NanaConnie
The image I used is Dog Watching and I thought he looked like he wanted to join his fish friend and have a cooling swim. The sentiment is my own ("Can I come in & swim?") and, instead of using a stamped sentiment, I printed this one from my computer, using using one of the many handwriting fonts I have.
I started with a sketch from Pixie Cottage,
and the colors from Play Date Cafe. Do You Stack Up wants to see embossing and I embossed the front of the card base with circles and dots (although it's hard to see in the photo), then added the rectangles of dp (DCWV), which had been matted with black CS. I colored the Dog Watching image with Copic markers and sparkle gel pen on the fishbowl. I fussy cut it and adhered it to a Spellbinders, scalloped circle die cut (blue CS), matted with a larger die cut from kraft CS. I cut a much smaller scalloped circle of kraft CS to mat the sentiment which I had printed and cut into a long, narrow oval.
I used a black marker to highlight the outside edges of the large, kraft die cut, the sentiment, and the die cut matting the sentiment. The final touch was the brown twine (The Twinery) around the card front and the flowers. Pixie Cottage wanted us to do their sketch and add some flowers and 4 Crafty Chicks wants us to use twine.
It would be great if you'd join in on the challenge this week at the Tuesday Throwdown. You don't even have to make up your own sentiment -- just print one instead of stamping it. You can print it with your own handwriting so you don't even need a computer, printer, or old typewriter (does anyone besides me still have a typewriter???)
Thanks for stopping by to visit today and I hope to see lots of you at the Tuesday Throwdown challenges from now on. Happy Crafting. NanaConnie
