Week 16 - The Craft Barn Quotes & Lyrics Challenge

Unlike some previous weeks it didn't take any time at all to find a song and a quotation using the words "family" and "thing" for my entry to the current Craft Barn challenge. We are permitted to make a word plural so I took that route and used "things".

Both of this week's cards have just simple Distress Ink backgrounds.

For my first postcard I chose "We Are Family" sung by Sister Sledge and felt the stamp (which I had to doctor a little) fitted the lyrics perfectly. On reflection I feel I should have placed the image on the left hand edge rather than being left high and dry in the middle but I think that's what challenges are about - the process and the journey and if you learn something along the way that can only be good.

  
Postcard Recipe
Card
Anna Marie Designs Super Smooth Printer Card 300gsm & 200gsm
Inks
Distress Inks - Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge, Barn Door, Bundled Sage
Ranger Archival Jet Black
Stamps
Crafty Individuals - CI-230 & CI-234
Other
Speech bubble and words (Bookworm font) computer generated

I used a quote from Coco Chanel on my second card "A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous". That must have fallen on deaf ears - I'm certainly neither of those!

Postcard Recipe
Card
Anna Marie Designs Super Smooth Printer Card 300gsm & 200gsm
Brown card
Inks
Distress Inks - Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge
Memento Tuxedo Black
Copic & Promarkers
Pen-touch Calligrapher gold pen
Stamps
Crafty Individuals - CI-322
Words - Tim Holtz Papillon set (CMS106) 
Other
Tando Stencil - Code MSKLEAVES2
Corners, plate, dots - Spellbinder dies
Words (Annifont) computer generated
Treasure Gold - White Fire

Week 15 - The Craft Barn Quotes & Lyrics Challenge

The Craft Barn Quotes and Lyrics Challenge number15 has given the participants the words "mind" and "ignorance" as inspiration.
I found plenty of lyrics to chose from and finally plumped for Phil Collins "Two Hearts". My background is brayered in the style of Leandra (PaperArtsy) and then stamped and coloured with PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints. The words are computer generated.

 

Postcard Recipe

Card/Paper

Anna Marie Designs super smooth printer card

Inks/Paints

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint :-

Background - Pansy, Eggplant, Orchid, Tango, Limelight, Snowflake

Foreground - Inky Pool, Limelight, Yellow Submarine, Tango

Archival Ink - Jet Black

Distress Ink - Black Soot

Stamps

PaperArtsy JM20 & JM33

Other

Words - computer generated - Dymo font

My quote is widely attributed to Derek Bok, an American lawyer, educator and former president of Harvard but there are also references that suggest it's much older (Benjamin Franklin).

I embossed the letters in white before applying Black Soot Distress Ink over the whole of the card.

Postcard Recipe

Card/Paper

Anna Marie Designs super smooth printer card 300gsm & 200gsm

Inks

Versamark

Wow Opaque Bright White super fine embossing powder(WLO1SF)

Distress Ink - Black Soot

Archival Jet Black

Stamps

Alphabet - Hero Arts

Girl - Crafty Individuals CI-277

Other

Words - computer generated - Kidprint font