Week 18 - The Craft Barn Quotes & Lyrics Challenge

Firstly thank you to everybody who visits this blog and to those who have left much appreciated comments on my entries to the Craft Barn Q & L challenge. I have managed over the past month or so to get around and view all the participants lovely projects. Sadly, there are a few where, because I'm not a subscriber to Facebook and don't have a google G+ profile I have not been able to leave a few words.

The words given for the eighteenth  challenge are "childhood" and "easier".

My chosen quote for this week's postcard is attributed to the Victorian author Samuel Butler. I felt these two ducks were having a good gossip putting the world to rights and could well be quacking the quote in their conversation. The background is sprayed with Dylusions inks and then stamped. The ducks were stamped, cut out and glued on.

 

Postcard Recipe

Card

Anna Marie Designs Super Smooth Printer Card 300gsm & 200gsm

Colortec+

Inks

Dylusions - London Blue, Vibrant Turquoise

Distress Ink - Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, 

Ranger Archival Jet Black

Copic marker

Stamps

Ducks - CI- 373  Favourite Ducks

Diamonds - Kaisercraft

PaperArtsy script - MN75

Chicken Wire - Creative Expressions

Other 

Computer generated words - Typewriter font

I found quite a few song lyrics containing the word "friendship" and in the end chose Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses. For this postcard I went for a clean and rather cute look so I could do some soothing colouring and cutting out. The boys t-shirt, shorts and kite are paper pieced and the rest of the image coloured with alcohol pens and then a touch of Distress Ink around the edges.

Postcard Recipe

Card

Anna Marie Designs Super Smooth Printer Card 300gsm & 200gsm

Scrapbook papers

Inks

Memento Tuxedo Black

Distress Ink - Broken China 

Copic & Promarker pens

Stamp

Docrafts PMA 9061300 Nostalgia by John Byars

Other

Computer generated words - Kidprint font

Spellbinders dies

Week 17 - The Craft Barn Quotes & Lyrics Challenge

For the 17th Craft Barn Quotes & Lyrics Challenge we were given the words "grace" and "peaceful". I found both a quote and lyric quite easily again this week.

I have used a line from Elegy IX: The Autumnal by the 16th/17th century poet John Donne. You can read the poem here The leaf was stamped onto a piece of wrinkle free distress background, masking off before stamping the next one, then cut out and glued onto a Distress Ink background. 

Postcard Recipe
Card
Anna Marie Designs super smooth printer card 300gsm & 200gsm
Inks
Distress Inks - Spiced Marmalade, Mowed Lawn, Vintage Photo, Mustard Seed, Shabby Shutters, Dried Marmalade, Rusty Hinge
Ranger Archival Jet Black
Pen-touch Calligrapher gold pen
Stamp
Leaf by Inkadinkado
Other
Computer generated words - Black Chancery font

My  lyric is taken from the Christmas carol "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" which I discovered was written by an American. I had always assumed it was an English penned piece - this challenge is very educational! I stamped the butterflies directly onto my card before masking them to stamp the seed heads.

Postcard Recipe
Card
Anna Marie Designs super smooth printer card 300gsm & 200gsm
Inks
Ranger Archival Jet Black
Memento Tuxedo Black
Distress Inks - Squeezed Lemonade, Peacock Feathers, Frayed Burlap
Stamps 
Seed head - PaperArtsy Hot Picks HP1005
Butterflies - Kaisercraft C55854
Other
Computer generated words - Asenine Wide font