Monday 12 August 2013

"Through a chink too wide.....

... there comes no wonder..."
Advent by Patrick Kavanagh

This week over at Through the Purple Haze Challenges, the new challenge is "butterflies and other garden lovelies" The kind sponsor is Floppy Latte, offering $6 coupon for the winner.


I have changed teams, so I am now on team B. This is my first week on Team B! This is my card for the challenge:

I used the lovely digi image as a second layer, die cutting a circle out to look in. It reminded me of spying on some delicate butterflies or birds through a chink in the garden fence. The Patrick Kavanagh poem, Advent, lent to the title perfectly!


I used some pencils to colour in the digi image.

The side strip is a piece of printed vellum. Then I used a styled label to place my sentiment and quilled petals on top.

I used part of a scalloped lace die to partially frame the die cut circle. Using some gems, I added a bit of bling to the front!

Hope you like my card, if you use this digi leave me a comment and I would love to see what you make with it. Why not give the Through the Purple Haze challenges a go?

These are the challenges I would like to enter my card into:
C is for Challenge - Fresh and Bright (15/8/13)
Crafty Boots Challenges - Die Cuts (18/8/13)
Eureka Stamps - Blooms and Blossoms
Pink by Design - Round out your summer (11/8/13)
Simon Says Stamp - Use your dies 


Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a wonderful day :)
Eithne

8 comments:

Unknown said...

Eithne an absolutely stunning card well worth putting it in some challenges...love the quilling and colouring so much work went into it!
Anita TTPHC

butterfly dream cards said...

Just beautiful, i think its just fantastic, love every bit of it

fiona DT

Michelle said...

Beautiful Card Eithne!!
Hugs,
Michelle xx

Dee's Craft Room said...

Gorgeous card, I love the peek a boo cut out and the quilled petals.

Thank you for playing along with us at Crafty Boots Challenges.

Dionne

Sandra said...

Such a lovely window card. Love the quilled petals. Thank you so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Hugs, Sandra

Crafting with Darcy said...

Hi Eithne! Such a beautiful card and I love the cutout window! Gorgeous!

Hugs
Darcy

Unknown said...

What a beautiful card.

Thanks for joining us at Eureka Stamps this week.

Unknown said...

This is simply beautiful. Love how you made the 'window'. I would like to thank you for entering my 'C... is for challenge' blog and I wish you good luck in the draw.
Hugs,
Anna xxx