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!

One down ....

.... I'm not counting what's left to do 'cos I don't want to think about it!

I've got a deadline of the week after next to get quite a few cards done, so last night I made one of them as my DT entry for this week's PaperPlay - the theme is "home" - and it's quite a loose interpretation, e.g. new home, something from your home that inspires the project, etc.  I was thinking about this during the week while looking out at the back garden, and I saw rather a lot of dandelions on the lawn.  "Bingo - a dandelion wedding card", thought I.  I had intended to post a picture of these inspirational dandelions, but husband cut the grass in the meantime!!!  So here's the card:

 

Sorry about the abysmal lighting - another November in June day here today!!! 

I've used the sketch from this week's Sketch Saturday and I'm also entering it on Create 4 Fun  (black/white/one other colour - mine's silver).

This card is a rariety for me, because I didn't use any patterned paper - just cardstock.  And I'm really annoyed, I carefully measured up the centre section before I stuck it down - normally I just go by eye - and after all my sums and adding up on my fingers - the piggin' thing is off-centre!!   Grrrr!

The black bit down the middle is a gorgeous black velvet ribbon I've had forever, with a narrow silver ribbon on top.  I stamped the image twice, first in Tuxedo Black, then overlapped with Versamark and heat embossed with silver - might be easier to see in this close-up:

Thanks for looking!