Animal Instinct

Greetings and Salutationy things,

Today's project marks my last as a guest designer for Corrosive Challenges. I'm sending a great big Texas-sized "Thank you" to the crafty people over there for featuring me as their "GDT" for September!

Their challenge this time around is all about our furry/feathery/scaly/hairy/leathery/slippery/slimy/soft/fluffy friends. No...not your cousin Mortimer.

ANIMAL COMPANIONS

and their sponsor is

Delicious Doodles

Our projects have to feature an animal. Any kind of animal--bird, mammal, insect, reptile, amphibian...doesn't matter. Heck, it could even be an amoeba...as long as it's in the "fauna" side of the taxonomy tree. Teri, over at Delicious Doodles has SO MANY beautiful animal-themed images, it was hard to pick just one! I decided on Raven Goddess. She just spoke to me. I know she's supposed to be Celtic, but when I saw her, I immediately thought "She's Native American and the raven is her spirit guide"...and that's how my card was born.

This is one of those cards where I could have EASILY kept adding "stuff". I probably should have stopped BEFORE I added the wheat, but oh well. I thought it went really well with the Native American theme. I know corn would have been better...but come on! An ear of corn would have been RIDONKULOUS on a card--even for me. 

The "blanket" in the background is a photo of a real Chickesaw Indian blanket that I printed off the internet. The image is on Kraft cardstock colored with Prismacolor pencils. The sentiment I cut...BY HAND. I've been cutting out titles and sentiments out of cardstock, by hand, since LONG BEFORE there was such a thing as a Cricut.

Here is a detail shot of my coloring. Ya know what? The color "black" is difficult to portray with colored pencils without it looking, well...just totally BLACK without details. I used a cool, blued black (a combo of 4 different blue pencils plus black) for the raven and feathers and a warm, greyed black (a combo of cream, light and medium greys and black) for her hair.

Ingredients:

Raven Goddess image - Delicious Doodles

Cuttlebug Embossing folders - Provo Craft (Forest Branches, Oriental Weave set)

Prismacolor Pencils

cardstock

wheat

Get Your Kicks

It's Monday (I think) so that means it's time for another fun challenge over at  

Craft Your Passion! 

This week's challenge is sponsored by 

Delicious Doodles. 

I really love the images over there...they are very unique and "grown up"...some are rather creepy too. I saw a plate of worms and eyeballs over there. Eew. I think Teri (the creative force behind Delicious Doodles) has a "thing" for zombies. Just sayin'.  The theme for this week is Black & White + 1. It's pretty self-explanatory...you can only use Black and White plus 1 other color. 

I chose this really retro image of a "19-Piptee-sebben Chebby". I'm really into retro at present. I love mid-century modern stuff. The shapes and colors from back then are SO spiffy. For my + 1 color I chose hot pank. That's a whole other animal than plain old "pink". It goes GREAT with black and white though.

Hot Pank is really bold and brazen. It's not shy and retiring like it's pale carnation cousin. I colored up the image with my Prismacolor pencils--actually I just used 2 of them...black and Process Red (which is really pank) I fussy-cut the car out then popped it off its background with foam tape. I think it looks nifty!

Ingredients:
Vintage Chevy - Delicious Doodles
Loopy edge punch - Martha Stewart for EK Success
ribbon - Creative Impressions
rhinestones - Studio 18
Patterned paper
cardstock
Prismacolor pencils