TLC 369 ~Crop it!~

A rainy and dreary Monday is perfect for hiding

in my Purple Palace and creating! :)

So that is exactly what I did. I jumped in on some challenges,

as you have started to see.

The funny thing is that I went down there numerous times with

the thought of this week's Try a New Technique Challenge on SCS.

The challenge is Crop it! Take any image and crop it to add to

your card or scrapbook page. Well, I would pull a set out that I

thought had a good image to crop. But then I would get

side-tracked and end up with a completely different card ...

...that didn't include the challenge guidelines. LOL

Last night, I finally got one that I thought would "fit."

But after I let it sit overnight, when I looked at it this morning,

I wasn't sure if cutting my image out, then in half to adhere in

two different places would actually qualify as "cropped."

But I still like the card I did. :)

Rusty Lion

The card base is really rust. The top layer

is K & Co DP, layered onto

crushed curry.

I stamped the Wild about you

sentiment from SU's Wild About

You stamp set onto the DP

with really rust ink.

The lion image is from the same

stamp set. I inked it using crushed

curry and really rust markers,

stamped it on naturals ivory cardstock,

cut it out, sliced in two pieces,

then adhered them on either side of

the DP layer. I also wrapped linen

thread around the bottom of the

DP layer and knotted it in the front.

The Happy birthday sentiment is from SU's

Alphabet Soup stamp set. It is stamped

in really rust and crushed curry ink

on naturals ivory. The edges were distressed

using SU's distressing tool, then layered

only really rust.

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Well, then I had to attempt the challenge yet again.

LOL

But by golly, I think I got it!

heehee

Cropped Spring Day

The card base is pink pirouette, with a bermuda

bay layer embossed with the Elegant Bouquet

SU Sizzex folder.  The image

~cropped image portions~

(shall I say?! LOL)

are from SU's A Kind Word stamp set.

I stamped them in memento tuxedo black ink

on whisper white.

I punched out 3 different sections (two are same image)

with SU's square punch, and colored them in

with SU markers.

I layered them onto scallop square

punches of crushed curry, and added a tab

of crushed curry dotted ribbon behind each.

The sentiment from the same stamp set is stamped

in bermuda bay onto whisper white,

the edges sponged with crushed curry ink,

and layered on a scallop oval of pink pirouette.

Kind of bold colors, but they make

me think "Spring!"