Week 25 - The Craft Barn Quotes & Lyrics Challenge

Here we are at the end of the journey with the final Craft Barn Quotes and Lyrics Challenge and I am finishing this one as I have on many times throughout it, just skidding in at the last minute. The given words for challenge 25 are "harmony" and "faith".

Both of my postcards this week do shimmer  - well it is Christmas - but sadly my scanner hasn't picked it up so please just imagine!

I went with the first song lyric containing "harmony" that came into my head and it was of course "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing in Perfect Harmony". I'd like to say that I put five treble clefs on because they represented the five continents but no, it was just that odd numbers of things are better than even! It wasn't until the postcard was finished that I saw any relevance!
The background is sprayed with Dylusion and Cosmic Shimmer and over stamped with music staves.

Card Recipe
Card
Anna Marie Designs Super Smooth, Super White, Printer Card 300gsm
Anna Marie Designs Super Smooth Printer Card 250gsm
Black card
Inks
Dylusions - Fresh Lime, Squeezed Orange, London Blue
Cosmic Shimmer - Rich Gold
Ranger Archival Inks - Watering Can & Jet Black
Distress Inks - Frayed Burlaap, Black soot
Stamps
Kaisercraft - Music Staves
Kaisercraft -t Texture Film Edge CS154 
Other
Treble Clef - Marianne die LR0167
Words computer generated - "Please Write Me a Song" & " AlphaMusicMan" fonts
World - computer generated

I had a rummage in my box of rejected backgrounds but nothing shouted out "use me" but what I did find was a little off cut of a background I had created some time ago so decided to make another piece in a similar way. It is all stamped with Brillance pearlescent inks onto a white background with just a little Distress ink added around the edge of the die-cut and postcard.

Card Recipe
Card
Anna Marie Designs Super Smooth, Super White, Printer Card 300gsm
Inks
Brilliance Pearlescent - Jade, Orange, Crimson
Walnut Stain Distress Ink
Stamps
Collage stamp - Crafty IndividualsCI-237
Flower - Crafty Individuls CI-206
Feather - ArtemioRef 10001192
Crackle - Kaisercraft CS876
Diamonds - KaisercraftCS152
Butterfly - Kaiser craft
Script - PaperArtsy MN75
Other
The Crafter's Workshop Mini Circle Explosion stencil
Die cut  Spellbinders Labels Four
Words computer generated - Lucida Handwriting font 

Well that is my final contribution for the year done and dusted (without a duster!). I know I've learnt a lot along the way and had great enjoyment taking part. So a very big thank you to the Craft Barn for making it all possible.

Thank you to everyone who has looked at my entries each fortnight and to those who have left such encouraging comments. In the last couple months or so I have looked at all the entries and left comments where I could. However I am not on all the social media platforms so sadly there were some that I could only look at and pass onto the next entrant.

 A happy 2015 to one and all.

 

Week 24 - The Craft Barn Quotes & Lyrics Challenge

We have reached the penultimate Quotes and Lyrics challenge and the words given to play with are heart and risk.

My brain has been concentrating on Christmas cards and it's had little time to think about and plan my entries for this 24th challenge. I'm not very happy about either of these postcards but, fortunately, they look far better on screen than they do in real life. However I do treat this challenge as a learning curve and I hope I have learnt something this week.

For my first postcard I chose the words of the Buddy Holly song "It's raining in my heart". The heart and sun are directly inked onto the card after creating masks. I recently bought the water droplet stamp and this was its first outing. Fabulous deep etched rubber so stamps beautifully. I went over the droplets with Glossy Accents.

  
Postcard Recipe 
Card 
Anna Marie Design  Super Smooth, Super White, Printer Card 200gsm & 300gsm 
Inks
Distress Inks -  Scattered Straw, Dried Marigold, Broken China, Victorian Velvet
Ranger Archival Ink - Watering Can
White Posca pen  
Stamps
Water droplets - Designs by Ryn Water Effects 1 UM-M1
Birds - Stampscapes 302A 
Other
Words - computer generated - Typewriter font
Glossy Accents

For my second card, I used a quote by Ray Bradbury, the American author, "Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down". I found a piece of Distress Inked background that I tossed into my scrap box and stamped lightly over it before stencilling the poppies and adding the birds.

Postcard Recipe  
Card
Background from scraps box 
Inks/Paints
Distress Inks - Wild Honey, Dried Marigold, Frayed Burlp Walnut Stain
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black
Ranger Archival Ink - Watering Can
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish - Snowflake
Eco-Friendly acrylic paint - Black
Adirondack Metallics Dabber - Gold
Pen-touch Callighpher pen - gold
Stamps 
Script - PaperArtsy MN75
Diamonds - Kaisercraft CS152
Birds - Stampscapes 302A
Stencils
Poppies - PaperArtsy  PS004
Mini Chickenwire reversed - The Crafter's Workshop TCW259s 
Other
Spellbinders die - Labels Four
Quote - Computer generated - Brigitte font