Sunday, July 11, 2010

Age Takes Its Toll


This card was created for The Color Throwdown's 100th challenge and the adorable little old lady is from River City Rubber Works .  (Don't you love the way her hand hangs over the edge of the frame?)  The Copic markers I chose were B91 (for Baja Breeze), R29 (for Real Red), R81 (for Regal Rose), and YG11 (for Certainly Celery).  All the papers that coordinated beautifully with this challenge are from Basic Grey's Euphoria collection.  I also used my Spellbinder's Scalloped Edge Frame dies to cut out my frame.  I cut this out twice, using two different pieces of patterned paper.  I chose the blue for my background here and I used the green insert on the inside of my card.  Finally, I accented her ears and around the frame with tiny pearls.

The inside of the card looks like this:


I distressed the inside of the card base with Antique Linen and Tea Dye Distress Inks before adhering my green insert with my stamped message, which is also from River City Rubber Works.  I created my own colored paper for the quilled flowers using glossy paper and alcohol inks.

You still have a little time to enter this challenge (11:59pm Monday).  So go have fun and get creative!

5 comments:

Kirsti said...

This is just too funny!!!!

Broni said...

Great paper piecing and I love all the tiny pearls! Thanks so much for helping us celebrate our 100th Color Throwdown challenge!

dj said...

too cute...and I love that inside sentiment...Thanks for playing along with this special 100th Color Throwdown challenge !! Don't forget to "hop" around to all the blog stops and leave some love...this will make the members of the blog hop happy as well as increase your chances of winning!!

Carol L said...

Hilarious! I never expected a funny sentiment inside with the image on the outside! Great card! Thanks for playing along with the CTD!

Barbara said...

Awesome card! Thanks so much for playing along with Color Throwdown 100!!