Thursday 1 April 2010

AiFactory Challenge 30 - ANYTHING GOES!

Morning everyone, it's time for the next challenge at AiFactory and this week's theme is Anything Goes! So let's see all your creations as you can enter any kind of project you like.
Mia challenged the Design Team to make something with this beautiful set of Clip Art with a flourish theme.  The lucky winner will receive this as the prize.
I'm also pleased to say that we're back with the old challenge blog this week as a lot of people found the new one a bit confusing. So if you click on the link above, you'll be transported to a much more familiar place!
Here's what I made with some of the images. I used a sketch by Doodle Palace for the card.

I printed a flourish in the top right hand corner of some polka dot paper for the background.
I manipulated and resized the border image to make the border strips and the frame. I printed these out on white parchment paper and coloured them with VersaColor inks in lilac, mint and sky blue.
The lovely image I used is actually holding a heart but I got a bit creative and turned the heart into a box of chocs with a black Sharpie fine pen. I printed out another image and coloured her with Promarkers, cut her out and added just the chocolate box and arms cut out from the first image to give a 3D effect.
I put the image on a square mat embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. I then cut some Easter egg shapes from some of my experimental paper scraps which I printed out when working out which papers to use for my card. I coloured these with inks and embossed them using Crystal embossing powder.
I assembled the card as shown, adding a computer generated sentiment cut to an oval shape and Prima pastel flowers with pearl centres.

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:
Digital Tuesday - Scrap It! using paper scraps for  embellishments (my Easter eggs)
Papertake Weekly - Open Theme
Crafty Cardmakers - Spring
Cupcake Craft Challenges - Spring or Easter and Chocolate (colour or edible)
The Pink Elephant - Pastel Colour Theme
DareU2DigiStamp - Easter
Paper Cutz - Easter but no bunnies or chicks
Stampin For The Weekend - Easter
For Fun Challenges - Anything Goes as long as it's family friendly
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Stampin' Royalty - Easter
Creative Craft Challenges -  Eggstatic Easter

I hope you'll all have a go at the AiFactory challenge this week as it's the easiest ever and you have until 11pm next Wednesday evening (7 April) to upload your creations.

14 comments:

Liz said...

Flis it is lovely but these colours are unusual for yyou but top marks lady

Liz x

Unknown said...

This is lovely Fliss, the colours are so different, well done you, thanks for playin with us at crafty cardmakersxx

Kate's Makes said...

What a really pretty card, i love the image too!

Thanks for joining us over at SFTW and good luck!

Kate

Maria Matter said...

omgosh Fliss, this is so adorable! great idea using the scraps for your lovely eggs!
blessings, Maria

Helen Dooley said...

I really love your card. I really do. The colors are perfect and I like the flourishes and flowers. It is very pretty. Thanks for sharing with us this week at For Fun Challenges.

Vixykins said...

Beautiful, absolutely gorgeous creation hun, wow!

Thanks for coming to play at Crafty Cardmakers x

Shanda Stirk said...

What a cute card - the little girl is so sweet and I love your Easter colors. Thanks for playing with us at Stampin' Royalty.

Saskia said...

Lovely card!

Thanks for joining us at Crafty Creations Challenge! Good luck!

Greetings, Saskia :)

coldwaters2 said...

Beautiful colourful card Fliss I love that image and the design using those lovely colours is just gorgeous thank you so much for joining our challenge at Digital Tuesday this week
Hugs
Lorraine x

Liza said...

A gorgeous card and image. Thanks for joining us at CCC.

Liza x

savvy teaching tips said...

very cute - I love those little easter eggs. Nice touch. Thanks for playing with us at Stampin' Royalty.

Annie said...

oh sooooooooooooo really really cute.
Ann xxx
TPE

Ange McKay, North Shore Stamper said...

Gorgeous! Those black accents really pop! THanks for playing with us at Stampin' Royalty this week!

Debi said...

Lovely job on your card. Thank you for playing along with the Papertake Weekly challenge.