Winner of April Challenge! I am starting to get involved with monthly art challenges for fun. They increase web traffic but most of all it stretches the mind and the artistic talents to try and develop items around these challenges. This particular challenge was to use a special blank template that has 8 squares and a circle center for the image as you see above. The idea is to use a digi stamp from DigiStamps4Joy which in this case is the cute image of the park bench in the center and using the template build something around it. Now my idea was to create a card front that you can print out and color however you like to give to whomever or you let the person you give the card to color it themselves if they are an artist. Adult coloring pages are the rage now and I thought it would be fun to create a card around this craze. The cover prints out onto half of 8X10" paper so that you can fold it in half to make a card like you see above. The other thing of important note is that the image I used from DigiStamps4Joy has specifications on how you can use the image. It states you cannot show the image without it being colored in. This of course is to keep people who didn't buy the rights to it from getting the image. However it presented a problem for me based on how I wanted to create my card as I wanted it to be a coloring image. So I decided wouldn't it be fun to colorize the bench put it center and then let you color the rest of the image. That way we appease our wonderful hosts that their image is safe and we accomplish the look we want as well. Plus it hopefully gives you inspiration on coloring the rest of the card which contains all hand drawn elements. I hope you like it as it was a super fun challenge. I will have the card for sale in the store soon so that you can download it. It will have a white background so the images can't be extracted again for protection of our guest image in the center "the park bench"created by Margy. Note just the bench was created by Margy and all imagery around the bench was hand drawn by me. By the By this card also matches our wonderful Garden Series of Adult coloring pages on purpose! What do you think of it?
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4/18/2015 06:16:58 pm
What a lovely card you have created for our challenge this week.
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4/24/2015 01:17:15 pm
Thanks very much Ursula appreciate it. Sorry for the late response you message was sitting in Limbo for some reason along with Jackie's :( Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
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4/22/2015 11:08:59 pm
Wow, great work, well done and good luck!
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4/24/2015 01:18:30 pm
Thanks so Much Jackie and I really appreciate your team stopping by to comment. Sorry for the late Reply both your message and Ursula's were in some kind of limbo...but I found you yea! Thanks again very much!
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4/24/2015 10:47:28 am
Fabulous creation Lady! I love the idea behind your card. I never thought of giving someone a card and having them color it. LOL! So creative! Thank you for sharing your wonderful creation with us at Digi Stamps 4 Joy!! Hope to see you again for the next challenge. Have a fantastic week!! Hugs, Gloria DT
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4/24/2015 01:21:14 pm
Thanks so much Gloria! Fun right? Takes most of the work out of it for ya ;) ok not really since you still have to design it. But seriously I thought it would be fun to give to someone who likes to color and doodle. Can even package it with some markers or color pencils and make it a gift. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment.
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4/26/2015 12:26:38 pm
Hi Lady T, I am so much in love with your doodle and images. They are so stunning! Thank you so much for using DS4J image and sketch to make your beautiful card! It's so wonderful how you honor Margy and her image being set as the focal point and colored it so beautifully. I salute you! Thank you so much for entering our challenge at <a href="http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.com">Digistamps4Joy</a> this month. Come join us again next month.
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4/28/2015 02:43:46 pm
Thanks so much for your very kind words Asmah. I am so glad you like it. I hope I do Margy justice! Please stop by often.
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4/27/2015 05:17:45 pm
WOW! I think this card is brilliant! I love the color of green you used on the bench and that everything else is black and white. And what an awesome idea to use black and white so the recipient can color how he/she sees fit. I really love it and I'm so glad you joined us at DigiStamps4Joy. I hope to see more of you in future challenges!
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4/28/2015 02:47:14 pm
Sara thank you very much for taking the time to stop by and look at the card. Much appreciated. I am so glad you like it. It was a fun challenge. I want to make more.
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Julie O
4/28/2015 01:28:09 pm
This is fantastic! I love your idea of making a card anyone can color! Love the DS4J image also! Thanks for joining us this month at DigiStamps4Joy. Julie, DT member
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4/28/2015 02:58:03 pm
Julie thank you! I'm glad you find it fun. Me too! I love coloring. Brings out the child.
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4/29/2015 03:06:20 pm
Lovely card. Thank you for joining the challenge at Digi Stamps 4 Joy. Hope to see you again next time.
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What a fabulous idea...to let who ever you give it to colour it in. But even more, I love the way that Margy's bench seems to just jump out from the middle of that card. It looks wonderful! Thanks for playing in our Sketch challenge at <a href="http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.com"><b>Digistamps4Joy</b></a>! Good luck and we hope to see you again.
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