Monday has arrived so it is time for another challenge with my goofy CCEE friends (that better Tosh? .... probably not but I said it anyway ;) !)
Once a month one of our members sends everyone else some supplies needed to create our challenge card for the last Monday of the month. This month it was Dawn's turn to supply our challenge .... she sent us a large paint chip and some chipboard shapes. Her instructions were to create a card or altered item using the ENTIRE paint chip. We were allowed to cut it apart if we wanted to, but we had to leave it in the correct color order. We also had to use any of the chipboard pieces she supplied to create our item.
Now this paint chip was massive! It had to be at least 21 1/2 cm x 10 cm (approx 8 1/2 inches x 4 inches) it was actually a tiny bit larger as it had curved sides but after checking in with Dawn we were allowed to straighten the sides ..... originally I had planned on making this into some sort of card and layering the paint chip but using the paint chip as would have created a very oversized card so I had to go with plan B (Yes Cindy ... I needed a plan B too ;) )
First I ran my paint chip through the cuttlebug as I wanted to add texture to it .... that looked ok but I did see one or 2 tiny pieces of white so I thought hmmm lets sand it ... if I did this again I would not sand my paint chip .... arghhhhhh what had I done! I only had the one paint chip ... so no room for mistakes! I then decided rather than making that oversized card I would cut up my paint chip and turn it into an accordion card. I layered each panel onto burgundy card and then attached it to an accordion card I created to suit my paint chip panels.
The chipboard shapes Dawn sent me included a flower shape so I took that one and a couple of others I had here and painted them using pink acrylic paints, layered them ....used large brads for the centres of 2 of the flowers and stamped on the large one. I used ribbon for the stems and stamped my leaves from my autumn leaves "build a flower" set. The large verse is stamped on acetate using black stazon and then attached to that panel using pink dragonfly brads.
It is not my most favorite of cards I have created by I don't hate it either ... it is fun to sometimes do something a little out of the norm to what you would usually do. Thanks Dawn for a fun challenge!
Registered: January 7, 2006 Location: Central California Posts: 16758
Sun, Oct 28, 2007 @ 10:03 PM
Oh my word!!! I love this Frances!!! So clever to make it into an accordian card!! Love all the flowers too!! Way to think outta the box. I think my box is getting smaller and smaller. *grin*. And goofy is definitely better than Whacky!! lol
Registered: July 20, 2007 Location: Fergus, Ontario, Canada Posts: 52538
Sun, Oct 28, 2007 @ 11:21 PM
This turned out very nice. I really like it. I really like what you did with the cuttle bug and sanding them afterwards. The flowers are lovely. So creative!
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Registered: April 8, 2006 Location: TX Posts: 28992
Mon, Oct 29, 2007 @ 12:54 AM
Frances...this is awesome. Love this accordian card you have made...what an awesome idea. Also love how you ran this through your cuttlebug--it looks awesome! GREAT job! Wow...just love this!
Registered: June 10, 2007 Location: BC Posts: 44872
Mon, Oct 29, 2007 @ 1:14 AM
France, how creative and beautiful!! I never never would have thought to create a four panelled card from a even a large paint chip!! This is glorious!! Great job!