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

Corrosive Crafting

Summer is waning, school is in full swing...the thermometer is (thankfully) staying below 100 degrees...my birthday is fast approaching...this means it must be September! I was asked to be a guest designer for Corrosive Challenges for the month of September!! Such an honor!

Doesn't its very name make you think of rusted metal and loads of distressing? It's either that, or sulfuric acid...and I don't recommend crafting with sulfuric acid...you tend to lose fingers that way.

So, over at Corrosive Challenges the challenge this time around is "Myth and Magic". The sponsor for this challenge is: Delicious Doodles. Be sure to check them out. Their images are very unique and sophisticated--with a good dose of the macabre!

So come enter for your chance to win!!!

For this project, I chose one of Kenny K's new images from their "Myths & Maidenz" line--the lovely Elf Queen. She's so elegant and lithe. She TOTALLY reminds me of what a Tolkeinesque elf queen should look like. I colored her up with my Copics (just kidding...I just wanted to check to see if you were paying attention). I actually used my ever-trusty Prismacolor pencils (like I always do). I added touches of glitter to her dress, hairband and eyelids--though it's difficult to tell in this pic. I rubbed Perfect Pearls over the embossed background to highlight the rivets.

Ingredients:
Elf Queen image - Kenny K
Nestability dies - Spellbinders (Deckle oval, Labels Ten)
Prismacolor Pencils
Glitter pen - Sakura
gems - Michaels
Patterned Paper - HOTP (remember them?)
ribbon - Offray
Embossing Folder - Sizzix for Tim Holtz (riveted metal)
Perfect Pearls - Ranger
Paper crimper - Fiskars
cardstock