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Sunday 17 May 2009

Three birds with one stone...



This card combines three challenges, hence the name, I know there are two birds, not three, sitting on the fence :) To begin, I've used the Dawn's great sketch from Inspirational Card Sketches #16 .

The lilac and lemon colour scheme (plus digi image) is from Dare You to Digistamp's Friday Challenge and the final touch is GLITTER for Secret Crafter's Saturday Challenge # 32

The digi image is a free printable from Pollycraft called Lovebirds. The page comes with extra sets of the birds and fence to cut round, very handy. I'm not totally sure about digis, I do like to be able to emboss images when I want, but this freebie is a great way to test them out, thank you Paula for your generosity. I've coloured with Inktense pencils and used Glitter on top of Glossy Accents on wings, tails and hearts, then Stickles as it wasn't glittery enough for me.

The birds and fence are both cut round (ack the fence has a lot of detail!) and are mounted onto foma pads to give dimension. The lilac spots and stripes are free magazine papers, the purple butterfly is an Artylicious paper. The vellum is stamped with a Hero Arts sentiment and is attached with brads. Purple gems at the top are from Kaiser. Nice colourscheme, with hindsight it could have used a little contrast...

15 comments:

  1. Such a wonderful card! I love all the dimension, the fun colors and really like the way you used the vellum!

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  2. Love your card and that colour combo is fab! I wish my fence was that summery colour!

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  3. Hi....beautiful card,love the image you have used and lovely layout,thanks for joining us this week at DU2DS,
    Take care
    San x

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  4. gorgeous card Anne, love the torn vellum, thanks for joining us at scsc hugs Jill xx

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  5. beautiful card!!!...sweet!!:))))

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  6. Oh my goodness what a pretty card! Awesome colors! Thank you so much for joining us at ICS! :)
    ♥Dawn♥

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  7. Oh What a beautiful card Ann!!ove the birdie image..
    Thanks for joining in with ICS sketches ..
    Great to see you there!!
    Have a lovely Monday :) ♥

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  8. I love the coloring and the vellum! Pretty! Thanks for playing along with us!

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  9. This is amazing. The image is gorgeous and I love the use of vellum.

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  10. AWESOME card! Gorgeous colors and papers. Thanks for joing us at ICS this week!

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  11. That is very cute. I love the fab birdies, so much texture. Kim

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  12. Beautiful card,thanks for taking part in this weeks SCSC!
    Clairex

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  13. Really pretty card - great sketch too!

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  14. OMG This is way too adorable!

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