Friday 4 June 2010

One Card for Two Challenges - Mo's and Cute Card Thursday Challenge

Good Morning Ladies what a wonderful day yesterday was, it really turned out beautiful and hot lets hope today is the same. Anyway todays card has been created for Mo's "Merged Images" and Cute Card Thursday's "Three colours Blue, Black and Orange" and I must apologise for using this image with these colours Im not sure it really works but I hope it doesnt look to bad.
Ive used Mos two little lasses "Sophie" thats the little girl holding her doll, and "Sleepy Sage" shes the one with the teddybear, arnt they gorgeous, and I like the similarity in the hairstyle and felt they would look extremely good together. I used my graphics program to merge them together I wont go into the details but its possible with some instructions by the side of  you, luckily one of the DT team (of Mos) has made a good tutorial on doing it. Anyway I printed the image out onto card and coloured it with my copic pens I then used my Nestabilitie Die Label 10 to cut it out, then after I drew around the edge onto blue card to create a mount for it. The sentiment was created on my computer and mounted again on some blue card.
The base card is a 7"x 7" with a base card of blue, and the papers are from different design sets of Nitwit Downloads, a pretty blue leaf sprig for the first layer, and the second is a black paper with white sprigs on which Ive used one of Martha Stewart border punches along the edge, on top of this Ive stuck another piece of orange card and a spotted orange paper on top. A piece of black paper was then made into a ribbon strip with a piece of orange ribbon wound around to the back of the first layer.
Ive then positioned my mounted image towards the top and my sentiment strip at the bottom on the right. To finish of Ive created a flower from some left over paper and threaded a pearl brad with a silver spacer through the centre and hung a teddy bear charm from the brad. This was then mounted on a layer of punched out fern leaves, and the last thing I did was to pop a couple of orange gems at the bottom and top corners.
I am entering this card into the following challenges :-

24 comments:

Elaine said...

Very sweet Shirley. The girls look great merged on one card.
Love the colours, and the teddy charm is perfect.
Have a great day Hun.
Love Elaine xx

Unknown said...

Hi Shirley
gorgeous card, and these 2 are so cute together, brilliant colours.
Christine x
Have a nice weekend

debby4000 said...

Wonderful, adorable card Shirley.
luv
Debby

Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...

This is too cute Shirley!! Love the images and how you merged them together. Your coloring and use of colors is gorgeous!
hugs,
Chris

Sadilla said...

HI dear
I love the stamp you used, and the colpour combo is so great! :))
hugs
sadia

Spyder said...

Love this card Shirley, it's soo pretty, lovely Mo image and so beautifully coloured too
(Lyn)

chris said...

Hi shirley
wow your work is amazing, this is so pretty.
hugs chris xx

Saskia said...

Oooh... very lovely!!

Saskia :)

Sheila said...

Very cute Shirley they look fab together, you did a great job on the challenge beautifully merged.
Thanks for joining us this week over at Mo's.
Hugs
Sheila xx

Rosis Stöberseite said...

Another one of those sugar sweet and so beautiful colored motif and staged.
Toll Shirley.
With loves and hugs
Rosi

Josephine said...

So pretty - and one of my favourite colourschemes - that soft orangey shade is gorgeous with the blue.

coldwaters2 said...

Oh WOW Shirley this is one brilliant card what a wonderful design I love the colours and papers you have chosen to use and that image I adore.
Hugs
Lorraine x

Ann English said...

So dear! Love these images and they are perfect together!

Riet said...

Ohhh Shirley,So beautiful card,i love your image and the colours.
So gorgeous papers.

Hugs Riet.xx

SYLVIA-ANNE said...

Hi Shirley - this is absolutely adorable, and I think the colours work really well together. You are so clever merging the two images - I wouldn't know where to begin! (Love your new blog background)!
Loadsa hugs, Sylvia xxxx

Elaine L. said...

Great job merging those two little sweeties! I love the colors, too. Thanks for joining in the fun at Mo's Challenge this week.

brenda said...

Good Monring Shirley

What a beautiful colour combination. Not colours you would immediately think of combining, but they work wonderfully.

Have a good weekend.

B x

Anonymous said...

gorgeus card Shirley- so warm and nice colours
Have a nice weekend
Hugs
elma

Cathy said...

Shirley, I love the colors and they are so cute on these two little girlies!!!Thanks for playing the Mo's Challenge this week :)

The Wired Angel said...

Another lovely card Ms. Shirley.. great job using these images. Thanks so much for playing along with us at Mo's challenge this week. Peggy x

Heather said...

So beautiful sweet and fun! LOVE it!

Enfys said...

This is so very pretty Shirley.
big hugs
En xx

Leann said...

Oh Shirley, this is BEAUTIFUL! The colours, the images - it's all just perfect!
Hugs x

Lauretta See said...

this is stunning :))) thank you for inviting me to see your blog :)) your creations are all so beautiful!! thank you ;) i will be back!

Hugs x