Wednesday 7 January 2015

It's an anything goes

Morning and hello!
It's me again, tired but happy. Got home from Malmö late last night after having watched my favourite team in the world play, the National team of Sweden and the sport is handball! Since 1988 I have been dreaming of watching them live and finally I got the chance to do that. Sneak that I am, I gave the tickets to my boys as a Christmas gift and off we went. We lost by one goal but I have seen them play and it was such fun. It couldn't get better as the team we played against was Denmark, another one of favourite teams. They have amazing players too. Real fun and now I hope to see yet another game in April when they come to Växjö which is only about 100 km drive instead of 300.


But you are not here to listen to me talking about my sports again are you? I have a little announcement to make. Before Christmas I saw a little ad about a dt-call. It was Party Time Tuesday which was looking for new designers. Now we are so many and the challenges are always "Anything goes" so a nice and easy task for everyone. So I hope that you from time to time come and play with us. The challenge is monthly at this time.

This time I have yet another card for a boy and I have made something simular before but this is a new one, well actually I made two of them for my boys' friends. I have used and image from Crafters Companion called "Lets play football" and coloured it with my Letraset markers. I have also used a whole bunch of die cuts as I love the back drop in the shape of a soccer ball or football if your over in Europe as I am. :) The colour scheme use is the colours of my boys' team Lindsdal. And as the boys' has birthdays and parties to go to... well, I better be prepared.



To make the foot ball I have used Joanna Sheen's die for patch work the middle size I think it is, wish I had the bigger one. And then I spend quite some time die cutting left over / scrapps of black and white card stock. After that it's time to start to glue all the pieces together. This also take some time as it's no fun when the glue shows up in the edges of each piece. But it's so worth it all when it's done. Once it's all dry I use yet another die cut in a circlar shape to cut the ball out. Taadaa! A classic black and white soccer ball is born!


We have a sponsor for this challenge and that is Spectrum Noir and here is a little info about them.

Spectrum Noir is a range of professional coloring tools. The range includes alcohol markers, blendable colored pencils, inks and marker storage, and is perfect for crafters everywhere.There are a total of 168 alcohol-based, acid-free and fast-drying markers. There are 120 wax-based blendable pencils that are great for using on their own or combined with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers. AquaTint inks are intense, concentrated liquid water paints.
And that's all from me for today. I hope to see you around and that you come and play with us over at PTT.

Love n hugs

Marie

Challenges for this card
Papertake weekly - Anything goes
ABC-challenges - anything goes
Die cut divas - Anything goes


5 comments:

Annelie said...

Men vilka tuffa kort!! Så kul idé & verkligen jättefina, de kommer garanterat bli mycket uppskattade :)
Kram Annelie

Marsha said...

This is fantastic. Love how you made the soccer ball and the variations in the grass. Thanks so much for entering the Die Cut Diva's Challenge.

Ginger said...

This is so creative! I might have to case your idea for a special someone's birthday coming up! I am going to have to attempt to make a soccer ball!

Arlene said...

Fantastic work. I love the card.

So glad you could join us at Die Cut Divas.

Meighan Wheller said...

Marie, I just love this card and so does my Daughter who is a mad soccer player. Love your colouring too! Thanks for sharing with us at ABC Challenges. Meighan DT