Showing posts with label OCC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OCC. Show all posts

29 December 2008

OCC Clear Thinking

Hi everyone, I hope you've had a great Christmas, lots of lovely presents and fun. My card today is for Our Creative Corner where the challenge this week is to add something clear to your project. My clear elements are clear gems and clear glossy accents all over the window in the image panel and on the butterfly which doesn't show up at all in the photograph! The digital images are printed out, allowed to dry for a good while, water coloured with distress inks and the girl on the seat is cut out and attached over the background image. There's lots of stickles dotted around and on the flowers in the paper at the top of the card.

Materials
Image: Girls about town digital download by Louise Brigden from Charmed Cards and Crafts
Colouring: Watercoloured with Distress Inks in black soot, peeled paint, shabby shutters, broken china, scattered straw, frayed burlap, vintage photo, fired brick, dried marigold, spiced marmalade, yellow. Edges and sentiment sponged with black soot and scattered straw.
Paper: K&Co Hydranga pad, white card for base
Embellishments: clear crystal gems, green organza ribbon, glossy accents, stickles

TFL. Back soon,
Chris

30 November 2008

Mimi and Snowman

Hi everyone, a card today for Friday Sketchers and a really great sketch by Carole, Cute Card Thursday with a challenge of 'Lilac', OCC and a challenge of 'Snowmen or snowflakes', Arty Girlz where the challenge is 'favourite colours' and finally Stamp Something with a challenge to include some black in your card. Once again lots of lovely challenges to combine!

I've used my gorgeous 'Mimi and Snowman' stamp designed by the incredibly talented Janet Roberts at Pink Gem Designs. Janet's new stamps are all so gorgeous, stamp beautifully and are wonderful to colour. I water coloured my image with distress inks, distressed the edges, stamped the sentiment and snowflake and then mounted on black card over the various layers of Lilac/violet bazzil card. Everything is mounted on a violet card blank which I scored for some texture and to finish I did some doodling and added the gem and fibre. TFL.

Back soon,
Chris