Monday 22 July 2013

A Card For a Friend

Well I thought long and hard on this one. What image to use? Something for a bloke who has a lot of style and is a fabulous artist. Had to be this one...... in my opinion. Captain McSteeme from Rick St Dennis' Etsy shop.
A scan of the image always picks up the colour better than a photo - the light here is just so temperamental.


Coloured with promarkers with just a hint here and there of metallic paint. I masked off the image and brushed vintage paper distress ink all around.
I was in such a rush to get this card into the post, I didn't realise how distorted the colours were in the photos. Oh well























Papers - Some DCWV, heirloom stack (the dark brown) and some BoBunny, et cetera collection (the yellow) matted onto pearlised copper and a stripy base layer (Southfield Paper) all mounted onto the card base,


Some diecut swirls and cog wheels,some brown and copper pearls and last but by no means least - a screw brad.
The stamped sentiment is inside.
I hope the quality of the pics won't be held against me.

I'd like to enter this card into the challenge at
Here Come The Boys - Anything Goes
Colour Me Creative - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar Challenge - Anything Goes

6 comments:

  1. Fabulous image and gorgeous papers. Thank you for joining us at Here Comes the Boys challenge good luck
    Ginny ♥

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  2. Stunning card.

    Love how you have done this.

    Thanks for joining us at Brown Sugar.

    Tracey DTxx

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  3. Quite the dapper gent, Helen! Love your coloring and the fab design. xxD

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  4. This is wonderful. Like the colours and the image is very cool!

    Thank you for joining us at Brown Sugar this week and good luck!
    Nick

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  5. Great card love the image, thanks for joining in the fun at Here come the Boys Anything goes challenge.
    DT Teresa xx

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