This is for the challenge at Gothic Arches.
The main image is from Dover Publications '120 Japanese Prints', the stamps are - for the background unknown and the other two are from a set by Kodomo and are 'Welcome Back' used twice and 'Learning from Bamboo'. Inks used Versafine 'Vintage Sepia' and Tim Holtz Distress Inks 'tea dye' and 'mustard seed' both for stamping and distressing.
This is for the challenge at Cute Card Thursday.
I printed the music backing onto the base card, the rabbits picture came from Dover Publications 'Music Illustrations' and I changed it from black & white using PSP, the flowers are by Prima and the treble clef charm is from my stash and that's about it!
The challenge this week at Daring Cardmakers was to make an oriental card with no Black or Red in it and this is what I came up with.
The base card is dark brown, the image comes from Dover Publications '120 Japanese Prints' and is by Hokusai dated 1849 and titled 'Old Tiger in the Snow'. I made the backing papers in PSP and the embellishments (unfortunately Chinese and not Japanese) are all from my stash; the beads come from several bracelets I bought in various colours for next to nothing and these two colours toned beautifully with the tiger. The symbol is stamped in Stazon 'Timber Brown' so although it may look black it isn't!
This has been made for the Friday Sketchers Challenge #37
The kingfisher is from Dover Publications '120 Japanese Prints' CD-Rom & Book and the backing papers were made on PSP from the original image as were the plain blue and brown papers. I had some rather unpleasant yellow ribbon in my stash which I coloured with a Copic marker to match the card and the other embellishments were 3 little Papermania brads and a metallic turquoise tassel also from my stash
Today I've done my first challenge entry.
This one is for Rainbow Lady's 'Green & Black' challenge. The image comes from Dover Publications 'Art Deco Fashions' and I created the backing paper with Paint Shop Pro (I'm still learning all the things I can do with it as I'm only a beginner and not the most computer literate of people!)
I hope you like it and I hope that it's the first of many challenges that I attempt.
