Saturday, March 20, 2010

Saturday Digi Shack Challenge

Hi all! Today's challenge over at the Digi Shack is to print a digi image on designer paper. Or think of it as digital paper piecing. To do this, all you have to do is cut down your dp to fit through your printer, then cut out as usual. Here is my example.

The sentiment is computer generated - isn't that font awesome?

I made the back ground paper using distress inks in Pine Needles and Broken China. The inks are swiped onto a craft sheet, spritzed with water and then the cardstock is smooched down into it. My heat gun was used to speed up the drying process and then I ran it through the swirls cuttlebug folder because it looks like waves of water to me.

The designer paper I used for the fish and his guitar (yes, the guitar is paper pieced too and colored a bit with Copic's) is from Paper Pizazz. A glue stick was used to adhere him onto the labels 4 nestie cut out. Finally I sponged around the edges of the label and the tag with the Broken China distress ink. Lastly, I took two rhinestones and colored them turquoise with my Copic Marker to color coordinate.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the design teams blogs to see what they did with this challenge - and please leave them some bloggy love! Thanks for stopping by!

13 comments:

Barb said...

This is so cute, Laurie! I'm lovin' the background, and that image just puts a smile on your face :) See?

Marlene said...

Awesome fish!!! Love your take on the challenge! Great job. :)

Georgia Ehrmann said...

This is so cute and I LOVE your background! Well worth the time it took to create as it does indeed look like water!

Unknown said...

What a cute card and the background is awesome!! Great job on the challenge!!!

Hugs~
Ramona

Deanne Clarke said...

Adorable card!!!

Lelia Pierce said...

Really cute, Laurie! Love your fishy!

Hugs,
Lelia

Christy Dillman said...

Fun card, love that sentiment and the cool embossed background!

Hugs,
Christy

Rleen said...

Laurie, your card is awesome! I love the embossed background.
Hugs, Arlene

Anonymous said...

Cute cute fish! And the background sooo does look like waves. Fun fun card.

stuffie said...

great job on the fish!!! awesome!

Amy said...

THIS IS SOOO CUTE! PAPER PIECING IS FUN!!!

Tricia said...

I love this fish!

Christina said...

Great card!!! I really like the colors you used!!