Monday 8 November 2010

Kindness.....






















Following Dorcas’ lovely sketch over at Sentimental Sunday, I have chosen to use the sweet image called ‘Angel with Puppy’ from Mo Manning.  It was coloured with Promarkers with touches of Stickles in her hair, matted and layered up & with free DPs from the talented Jak Heath depicting white and sepia toned snowflakes.  The edges of the angel’s mat were gently distressed so that I got the tiniest of ruffled white edges from the card’s core. I wanted it to tie in with the torn vellum I used as the horizontal element to the sketch, which to me represented a snowdrift, (maybe you have just to be inside my head to make sense of it! LOL), with added  Stickled  snowflake.  To add this without showing any adhesive, it was wrapped behind the backing paper.

 

The sub-theme I have given myself to work to follows the sentiment (in full on the inside of the card) of Kindness. This came from TLC and I used just the first word of her sentiment for the centre of the snowflake on the card front. This large snowflake was made using a Marianne Creatables die in pearlescent card and vellum and was again touched with Stickles. The vellum parts to all the snowflakes were carefully hand-embossed to give white highlights to them - though the smaller snowflake on the front of the card also had the addition of white Gelly Roll pen.


The inside of the card uses the same DP and I used a second smaller portion of the same design, this time printed onto card to create a pocket. The sentiment in full was also printed onto this, but I also printed it out onto vellum which was then ripped and torn top and bottom and overlaid onto the card sentiment. Snowdrift again…LOL. The tag is basically a posh ‘To’ and ‘From’ popped into the pocket.   

Hope you like it!

Tine :)


Challenges for this card:

Sentimental Sunday – sketch (and use a sentiment)
Mo’s Digital – pockets
Crafty Calender – winter snowflakes
Quixotic - Christmas
Karber – digi animal
Crazy – things with wings
Flutterby Wednesday – wings
Our Creative Corner – gratitude
Stampman – Christmas
Cute Card Thursdays – vellum, parchment or tissue
Lexi’s – anything goes.

16 comments:

  1. Super cute card! Thank you for playing The Karber Weekly Challenge :)

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  2. stunning card,both inside and out.your colouring is exquisite,
    thanks for sharing your creation with us at lexi's and good luck in the challenges
    lalkygirl x

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  3. Oh WOW again Christine! What a fab card, I love this colouring technique you have used on her hair. The white makes this card look so sophisticated xx

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  4. Beautiful card, thanks for joining in the fun at Crafty Calendar.

    Liz x

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  5. This is precious. LOVE the way you colored her.. Great job. Thanks for joining us at Mo's this week..Looks fantastic.

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  6. Hey Tine! Awesome job on this card, its really precious! You did a perfect job on the sketch too.
    Thanks for joining us at SS (lol)

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  7. Hi Tine, Beautiful card! Your colouring is perfect.

    Thanks for joining us at Crafty Calendar Challenge.

    Lisa x

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  8. Lovely card! I really like the sentiment on the torn vellum...nice effect. Thanks for joining us in Mo's Challenge.

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  9. A beautiful card Tine - the vellum and the soft colouring gives it a dreamy, snowy effect - love it! Thank you for taking part in the Sentimental Sundays challenge this week.
    x Sylvia x

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  10. Very Pretty, thanks for playing along at OCC.
    Hugs, Julie

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  11. Absolutely gorgeous Tine, love the way you did her hair,thank you for joining us at The Crazy Challenge this week
    Ruth x

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  12. Christine this is the cutest image and your colouring is beautiful. Thanks for sharing with us at Sentimental Sundays.
    Hugs Shirley x x

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  13. This is so beautiful & I love the decorated inside of the card too :)

    Thanks for joining us at Sentimental Sundays & Good Luck!
    Hugs
    Tracey
    x

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  14. wow, your colouring on this is out of this world! I'm glad you played along with us this week at Sentimental Sundays :-)

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  15. This is just lovely!

    So happy that you played along with Sentimental Sundays Challenge this week. Looking forward to seeing more of your creations in the future!
    ♥ Lisa M.

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  16. Lovin this Tine
    A great entry for The Stampman Challenge this week
    Thanks for joining in the Christmas countdown.
    x Michelle

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