Sunday, January 29, 2012

Pile It On Challenge # 05- Just Because

Hello everyone and welcome to a new challenge from Pile it On! This week our sponsor is Stamp n Doodle. The winner will receive 2 images of their choice! Our theme this week is 'Just Because', so please come join us with your 'Just Because' cards and link up with all those challenges!
I have to admit that this week was a bit of a stretch for me, a little outside of my comfort zone, but that is why I love challenges because they DO stretch you and you become a better crafter because of it, and I actually like how this card turned out.

I used the pretty bird image from Stamp n Doodle. I am not super familiar with bird species, but seeing as it is winter I went with a cardinal type of bird. Somewhere along the way of creating this card it became more of a masculine style, lol, but that is actually good because masculine cards are always scarce in my stockpile. The sketch inspiration was from this weeks challenge at Top Tip Tuesday.(**Here is my tip: when you are working with small die cut pieces like the birds on the banner, I usually run them through my mini-Xyron. It is just an easier way to get adhesive on the entire piece. If they are ultra-tiny (like the dots on i's or super small layers) I use my Zig glue pen.) This banner was cut from Rock Princess- I liked how the birds on it continued the bird theme in the card and then I ran it through my Cuttlebug. I thought this folder had a woodsy feel to it that fit with the rest of the card as well.
Other supplies used:
Paper: Colorbok, Stamp: Pink by Design, Twine: My Craft Spot, Digital Stamp: Stamp n Doodle, colored with Copics.

Here are my challenges for this week:
Top Tip Tuesday: sketch (see my tip above)
Stamp N Doodle - include an animal
Die Cuttin' Divas: Buttons, bows or bling
4 Crafty Chicks - Pokin' Fun (brads or eyelets)
Digi Doodles - Anything goes
Stampin' for the Weekend- embossing
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - animals
Card Makin' Mamas - Something old (all the paper is at least a couple years old!!)
Pixie Dust Studio - Include an animal
Victorine - anything goes
Crafty Catz - things with wings

9 comments:

  1. A lovely card and a great tip. Thanks for joining Top Tip Tuesday. Elaine

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  2. This is such a GORGEOUS!! card!! You did a beautiful job on the design and love the details!
    Sherrie K
    http://sherriescraps.blogspot.com

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  3. Beautiful card. Love colour combination on it and how you color image. Lovely.
    Thank you for joining us at Sweet Stampin` “Animals” Challenge and we hope to see you again soon.
    Hugs
    Natali

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  4. Heather this is stunning! I love that you made it more masculine (always the hardest cards to do, lol)All of the elements are super but I especially love the birds on the banner :0) ps I am a new follower!! Ali x

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  5. What a great card. It would make a great masculine card. Very nice. Thanks for joining DCD this week--Pat N.

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  6. Fabulous card. Great color combination!
    Thanks for playing along at Die Cuttin' Divas.
    candyscraftcorner.blogspot.com

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  7. Hi Heather

    A beautiful card,fab colour's and image,thankyou for joining us this week at CraftyCatz

    Hugs Dianne xx

    CraftyCatz DT

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  8. Great job, your card is fantastic. Thanks for joining us and using a Stamp n doodle image.

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  9. That is a fantastic masculine card Heather! Great inspiration for a genre that I think most of us struggle with lol! Thanks so much for playing along with Sweet Stampin x

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