Every other month, as part of job as a DT member at My Sketch World, I offer up a layout challenge on the members' forum. This month, picking up on one of the hot trends of 2010, I challenged members to use bakers' twine in an innovative way on a layout. One of my friends there bemoaned the fact that she doesn't have any twine, so I offered to send her some. She picked a few colours that she often works in. Rather than just stick a few lengths of twine in an envelope, I thought I'd enclose it in a card. I know Danielle loves cats and they are often the subject of her scrapbook pages, so I searched some images saved on my computer and found this (I knew I didn't have any actual stamps with cats on them). I found this Hambo digi stamp saved, I guess, for such a time as this!
In the interest in keeping my envelope light, I have not embellished this enclosure card, but I think it's pretty cute, and I think she'll like it:
I printed the image on white cardstock and then coloured using watercolour pencils that I blended with mineral spirits and a stump. Since I didn't want the smooth cardstock to start to pill, I blended with this instead of water. I wanted the cat to slightly resemble a lovely but indulged cat that used to be in Brian's family (she went on to her maker last year). So this cat is shades of brown and orange in honour of Patches.
I mounted the coloured image on some Authentique paper, from the Free Bird 6 x 6 loose collection.
I hope she likes it and gets to put that twine to use before the month is over!
Thanks for popping by!
Blessings,
Ann
