Had the best idea ....

.... but it was too late, I'd already finished the card!!  It's Tuesday again, and time for another fortnightly challenge from Creative Card Crew.  The challenge this time is called "Sparkle and Shine" and we are sponsored by The Digi Shack.  The DT were offered our choice of digi images so I very carefully chose one that I hoped would colour OK after printing from my printer. I immediately thought of a Beatles-loving friend of ours when I saw the submarine image and so I decided to make his birthday card (some months early!).  Here's my card:

I used the sketch from this week's Create 4 Fun.  I'm also entering it into Totally Papercrafts (rainbow - I think the stripy paper contains (nearly) all the colours!).

As it's a card for a man, I've used more shine than sparkle.  The shine is the windows in the sub (glossy accents) and also the metal, both real in the brads and faux in the heat embossed port-hole.  I've added sparkle to the water and the bubbles with stickles.  I changed my mind about things quite a lot - the background cardstock went from green to blue to black during the making of the card.  I coloured the water with distress inks, but chickened out and coloured the sub with prismas 'cos I was afraid that the inks would smear the image. Here's a close-up:

Recipe:

Image: The Digi Shack

Papers: Fancy Pants "About a Boy"

Colouring Media: Distress Inks and Prisma pencils

Other: Silver e.p., Eucalyptus and Stardust Stickles, Doodlebug brads, black mesh from stash, needle + thread

And what was my great idea - I was just sticking the last piece down when I realised that the sub was very "steam-punk" looking, and that it would look fab on a card made in that style.  Gaaaaah!!!

Thanks for looking!