A new Double D challenge begins today, friends. We have a mixed theme that I think you'll enjoy -- books/bookmark and/or postal/postage. Lots of choices there with a pretty mood board for inspiration. The team will choose creative favorites, and there's a prize, as shown, for a random winner.
I chose to go with books and bookmarks so I made a matching set.
The card features one of my favorite bird dies with branch -- Cottage Cutz Bird w/Vine -- and a long neglected Marianne Design Open Book. The lacy border is a friend share from many years ago, and the gorgeous designer paper is new-to-me and not-yet-used Brutus Monroe Spring Splatter. I swooned over the paper. I believe it's from last spring, but it caught my eye when I was browsing for something else, sigh. You know how that goes.
I love creating birds with make-believe colors. For this one I brushed on inks to coordinate with the paper. I used the book die, itself, as a guide for the lines on the book pages, drawing several rows of faint pencil lines, then squiggling over them with a gray Copic marker. The page edges are traced with a gold Gelly Roll pen. The card is blank inside, other than a strip of designer paper, but the stamped sentiment, "Happy Day", lets you interpret the card in many different ways.
The two bookmarks feature a not-yet-used Cottage Cutz Bird with Flowers die, some favorite old Power Poppy sentiments, and that beautiful paper again. I cut the bookmarks from the designer paper, then cut a bird from each. Glued the pretty paper to white cardstock, then inset a die cut bird to the negative space, doing a switcheroo so the birds stand out and blend at the same time.
I love mixing old and new, and the following challenges are great encouragement:
Neglected Stuff Challenge -- My neglected stuff is the Marianne Design Open Book. I can't remember the last time I used it, but now I love it all over again. Thank you Diane and Darlene!
I think that covers it. I hope you'll visit Double D and see the variety of clever, fun, pretty cards the team is sharing. I would love to see yours as well. Have a beautiful day!
Stamps: Power Poppy Lilac Time and Party Time sentiments Paper: Hammermill Premium 100 lb white, Brutus Monroe Spring Splatter designer paper Ink: Stampin' Up So Saffron, More Mustard, Old Olive, Cameo Coral, Not Quite Navy, Versamark Coloring: Ink blending with brushes Dies: Cottage Cutz Bird w/Vine and Bird with Flowers, Marianne Design Open Book, Sue Wilson Vela lacy border die, Spellbinders Scallop Labels and Tag for top of book Other: Memory Box Fairy Jewels, SU Vanilla embossing powder, Gold Gelly Roll glitter pen, Scotch brand foam mounting tape
