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Saturday, 1 September 2012

St Luke's Charity Card Challenge .....

..... It seems you weren't much inspired by our Sports/Olympic theme challenge last month, but hopefully this month's challenge at St Luke's Charity Card Challenge will encourage some more of you to play along.  What is the theme?  Oh yes, it's:

COUPLES


You are free to interpret this a you would like - human, animal, fun, formal, romantic or not!  The choice is yours - but we do want to see two together!  I've gone for a fishy, fun take for my card - but it's romantic at heart!!


Stamps:  Pink Petticoat - Fish Free with Papercraft Essentials; Waltzingmouse - Half Pint Heroes, Fancy Phrases, Compact Family
Inks:  Distress - Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Faded Jeans, Salty Ocean, Mowed Lawn, Picked Raspberry; Memento - Tuxedo Black
Accessories:  Promarkers - various; Card from stash

This is a little card 3" x 4¼" - just right to show off these sweet fishes!!  I started off by making the ocean background, blending various shades of blue distress inks.  Then I splashed on drops of water - distress inks react with water creating this lovely blotchy effect.  To create the illusion of depth I randomly stamped seaweed and fish in the ocean.  I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to position the sentiment and the two big fish.  I also stamped the big fish onto white card and coloured them with promarkers and then carefully cut out the various layers.  Those hearts are tiny, tiny!!  A fun card for a couple - could be for an anniversary, a wedding or just because!

For more inspirational couple cards check out St Luke's Blog or click on the links below:




We have a two prizes sweet prizes for you this month - stamps from Lili of the Valley - they're very cute:


Looking forward to seeing your cards.

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9 comments:

  1. Stamps and Paper1 September 2012 at 00:02

    Great couples card Deborah love the fishes

    Anne

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  2. Patrice1 September 2012 at 00:40

    Sweet little fishies - I hope you'll link up again at 52 Car Pickup this week!

    http://www.oldbackporch.com/2012/08/52-card-pickup-week-35_31.html

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  3. Mary J1 September 2012 at 10:23

    That is so sweet Deborah!

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  4. Buffy1 September 2012 at 14:37

    Absolutely adorable. Those fish are great.
    Buf xx

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  5. Lynne1 September 2012 at 19:33

    Brilliant card Deborah. Gotta love those fishy lips ha ha.
    Lynne xxx

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  6. Tara Cardwell1 September 2012 at 20:39

    Such a fun card Deborah - I love the dropping of water onto the distress inks to get the watery effect.
    Tara
    x

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  7. Jenny1 September 2012 at 22:42

    Loving the way you acheived dimension in your scene Deborah.... the two fishes are obviously so in luuuurve :0)
    Jenny x

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  8. Hank Hendricks6 September 2012 at 07:31

    This is so beautiful card. So nice designing. How can i learn such nice designing like this for the plastic business cards? I appreciate this.

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  9. Plastic card13 September 2012 at 06:46

    Challenges are always end up with master pieces like this so they should be conducted regularly...

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Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog and check out my creations. I'd love to hear from you. Deborah x