Thursday, October 28, 2021

Seize the Birthday #226


The gang over at the Seize the Birthday blog are back with a new prompt for this fortnight.  Colleen is asking us to create a birthday card with a sunset scene.  





I made a tremendous boo-boo on the design of this card.  I'm sure it's obvious but I wasn't about to start over again.  Let me know in the comments if you catch my error.






I began by die cutting the background so I could get a visual on my color placement.  Keeping the pieces together I masked off the background with a open circle mask to blend in my sun.  I then masked off the sun to ink blend the sunset sky and ground. I ink blended the die cut car in black to create a silhouetted look.  The sentiment is stamped in crisp black pigment ink and it continues into the inside of the card.  I popped the panel up before adhering it to a beige card base.  




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Supplies:
Ellen Hutson - Abstract Mountain die
Cottage Cutz - Cars and Moving Truck die
Avery Elle - Simple Sentiments stamp set


Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 







11 comments:

  1. I think your coloring is stunning, I am guessing maybe you meant to only have the top half of the sun showing? And the rest behind the mountain as it is setting? I am not sure the recipient would even notice that, so I think this is wonderful!

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  2. What a fun way to create your sunset scene. I would never spoil an artist's creation commenting on alleged flaws. Besides, what if it was one you hadn't noticed? ROFL!!!!!!

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  3. Since you are the artist that made this card. you can do anything you want. I think is is a great masculine card. I have found that if you put money inside, they don't even notice the outside. Haha!

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  4. No errors to be mentioned here! Nothing but creativity! Awesome card!

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  5. I'm not playing 'spotting the mistake' - not when the card is so great! I love how the colors are looking - kinda distressed - and I love how that adds to the simple die-cut look - its really fabulous how they gel so well together! I love it when the simplicity of a card makes so many things stand out and look great!!

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  6. Looks perfect to me too, such a cool design, Cathy x

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  7. I don't see any mistakes - this is stunning. This is such a great die and you made the perfect sunset scene. Love the colours.

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  8. It looks fine to me. You are the artist and it is your creation.

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  9. Love the beautiful ink blending of your sunset sky! What a great birthday card! You could give this to your recipient with a quiz :) !

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