Vintage Swim Team Birthday Card...

It's been two weeks since I posted a card.   I was at my daughters last week, helping her clean and get rid of stuff since she is going to be sharing her apartment with a room mate starting the first weekend in September.  She is in graduate school, so this will help her with expenses for that.   We are storing some items for her so I decided to go through and do some paring down of my stuff.   But I have plans to make several cards this week...This past challenge at Inspiration Station was my first one as part of the design team and I enjoyed it so much.   Such wonderful cards were shared, it was very exciting!    The photo (above) for this week inspired me to look for a vintage photo of girls in swim suits.   I have often jokingly replied to friends inviting me to come over for a swim that I really wish I could but my swimsuit has a hole in the knee, so I'll have to pass.   I have this thing "lately" about vintage clothing and so I went hunting on Etsy for a digi download.  The sentiment is from a retired CTMH stamp set "You're Not Old."  Below is a photo,  a friend on facebook shared last week.  It's her mom (born in 1900) swimming at the beach with friends.     She said I could share this!  Anyway I hope you will go on over to the Inspiration Station Challenge, the team designers have come up with various takes on the sketch and we would all love to see what you come up with.

Thanks for stopping by,    Smiles,   Kathy

 

Hello Little Friend...

Whatever part of the world you live in, I hope you are comfortable and safe,  and thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.   Your comments are always so appreciated and I feel like I know so many of you through our blogs and common love of cardmaking.   Today is my first day participating at Inspiration Station Challenge as part of their Design Team.   Last fall one of the design team artists left a comment on my blog and invited me to participate at Inspiration Station.   I had never heard of this blog and for the most part I only did sketch challenges,  I found "photos" very intimidating.  But, I kept being drawn back over there and found it wasn't as hard as I thought!...You actually have lots of freedom to be your own kind of creative!  For instance my first impression of today's photo was Noah's Ark (that includes all created life)so I had to narrow it down  and  this adorable digital stamp "Hello Little Friend" turned out to be just right.  By Connie Fong (you can click here to see it on ETSY.), this little bunny and butterfly are just the cutest and I think they  will bring a smile to the face of my card recipient.   To print the images I used a 4 on 1 label program in Word.  You can choose transverse or horizontal labels.  I  print 4 images at a time (not always the same things).  For this card, I printed 2 of the same and used one to color and fussy cut the bunny so I could pop him up on my card!  Using both water color and colored pencils I Colored it all in.   It may be overdrive but I used matte SU retired green enamels for the circles on the mushrooms, to create different depths and textures!   I also used the SU basket weave embossing folder over the green gingham plaid (from We are Three Etsy store).  Connie Fong is the sponsor for the current Inspiration Station challenge and is offering a substantial discount to entrants.   For more details  go on over and  check out the artwork by the Design Team while you are there.    I would love to see you there!         Smiles,    Kathy