Saturday, February 27, 2010

gotta love a card that multi-tasks!

eta sunday morning: holy moly--i made the FAB FIVE at 2sketches4you! many thanks to laura and the gang! color me a happy, HAPPY girl!

at the beginning of the week, i will often see 4 or 5 challenges i like the looks of, and grandly plan a card for each! by the end of the week, if i can make a couple of cards...or perhaps just ONE card that combines a couple of challenges, i am quite happy. it's called "real life", and i'm a fan! :)

so this time i've taken the basic grey color challenge...


...combined it with laura's sketch #46 at 2S4Y...


and this is what i came up with:

(patterned paper: basic grey + a couple of digi-papers printed on kodak photo paper: the oval is cut from girl friday's "cherry sugar sunshine" kit (digickick) and the rectangle is rhonna farrer's "french ooh la la" kit (house of 3); border sticker & (re-colored) rub-ons: basic grey; ghost butterfly: heidi swapp; chipboard word: ek success; heart stickers: sandylion; (re-colored) pearls: kaiser; inks: colorbox; pens: copic; adhesives: tombow mono runner & 3m foam tape)

obviously i had NO TROUBLE incorporating pink & maroon... (try STOPPING me, lately!) ...or in using several basic grey products! lemon yellow was much more of a stretch for me, but i *think* i did ok. with regard to the sketch, i've rotated it 90 degrees, and compressed it quite a bit, but i'm pretty sure you can still see the "bones" of it. (at least i hope you can!)

my favorite part of this card is a technique i haven't used for a while--i love to take a clear ghost shape and cover it with rub-ons! BG's floral paisleys are a big fave for this, being the perfect scale & easily trimmed to fill in small spaces. not having any yellow rub-ons, i used white; but i thought they looked a bit stark on the card. and then i had my BIG IDEA: what would happen if i verrrrrrrrrry lightly applied some yellow chalk ink? my prediction was that the color would stick to the rub-ons and wipe right off the acrylic...which is exactly what happened!


of course then the white *pearls* looked a bit funky, and chalk ink was no help at all, there...so i copic-ed those babies into lemony submission and called it a night!

18 comments:

  1. What a great card! Lovely butterfly! Thanks for playing! :)

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  2. AHHH!!! That is so cool. I love that you chalked that puppy (I mean b-fly You know what I mean lol) So cool. I was just wanting to see what you'd do with the BG challenge. Yippee. I hope you make the fab 5 or win this week.. Your card is amazing!!! So Laurenesque. LOVE IT. :)

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  3. Fabulous job combining the challenges! Your card is so lovely and romantic. Great idea to put rub ons on the Heidi Swapp butterfly! Thank you for joining us at 2S4Y! ♥♥ Kay

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  4. Oy...I love it Sista...it has winner winner chicken dinner written all over it! Love the girlie colors and thanks for the ghost tip...sheesh, didn't even think about that...I think I have some Heidi Swapp ghost shapes that could use some dollin' up:)

    Happy Saturday Girlie!!

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  5. Ghost shapes ... rub-ons ... off to find some of both (because I'm sure they're here somewhere) ... and I'm wondering if sparkley chalk would have the same effect?? fabulous card.

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  6. What a beautiful card! Thanks for playing at 2S4Y!
    Laura

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  7. Love it! byw...just read your mini bio...Do I wanna be friends??? OMG, I think we're sister!!! :)

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  8. Look at you making Fab Five again ... you rock!

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  9. Fantastic card Lauren. Congrats on making it to Fab Five... You go girl ! Hugs

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  10. Yeah@!!!!! Fab 5 girlie!!!! Congrats!!

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  11. beautiful card! love all the colours:) thanks for the sweet words left on my blog :D congrats on making the fab5!

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  12. Fabulous card Lauren!! I love the technique you used on the butterfly. I've never tried that, but now I have something new to try :) Congrats on making the Fab 5 this week. It's well deserved!

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  13. Woot woot for Fab Five!!

    What a gorgeous creation and I love how you altered the pearls and rub-ons to fit the design! You clever, clever girl!

    (-: Heidi

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  14. Oh Lauren this card is GLORIOUS, Love it!

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  15. This is stunning - I'm really digging that butterfly in particular. Might just have to dig out some rub-ons and play around...

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  16. Beautiful! This is just fabulous. Congrats on making top 5. Love your humor! You crack me up girl. :D

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  17. gorgeous card!! congrats on making the fab 5!!

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