Wonderful Mess!

 Challenge #256 at Time Out Challenges has just gone live and this fortnight we are CASEing the fabulous Sarah Gray - former Time Out DT Member and owner of Funky Fossil Design!

Here's a closeup of Sarah's card so you can see it in finer detail!

Funky Fossils are sponsoring Challenge 256 and are offering a very generous £25 gift certificate to our Top Pick as chosen by the Design Team.  As well as this wonderful prize, our Top Pick will also be invited to be our guest in a future challenge!

We are joined this challenge by Carol Mc of  Saw it. Had to Make It - our Top Pick of Challenge #253.  Do please check out the awesome inspiration from Carol and leave her a little love while you're there!  You can also check out Carol's inspiration along with the rest of the design team herehere!

For those unfamiliar with CASEing, there is a nifty acronym coined by Ardyth Percy-Robb for helping you take inspiration from someone else's work but making it your own - L I M E S!

List

Include

Modify

Exclude

Spin

I'm not going to go into too much detail, but the things that I loved about this design were 

• the image itself (all the painting paraphernalia)
• the chaos of creativity (splattering and spattering) 
• the design is essentially confined to two corners and still has a lot of white space
• the use of a mat to draw the eye toward those hues on the panel

As you can see, I've made an A2 rather than square card (square cards cost about 5 times as much to send here).  I've still used two corners but my design has been rotated to the right by 90º and I've replaced the colour chart in the upper left corner with my sentiment (which is why I had to rotate the design by 90º).  I had wanted to use a long thin piece of text from a Tim Holtz Flights of Fantasy set, but I have turned my craft stores upside down and I can't find it, so I've borrowed this Carabelle Studio Wonderful Life set from my good friend Lena - obviously I didn't want it reading sideways!

 I've created my arty "mess" with some very old stamps (WMS Splat That, WPlus9 Inksplats) but also teamed them up with some brand new dies that came with the Gummiapan Advent Calendar I ordered last year.

The paint brushes were cut a from off white card stock multiple times to build up the dimension and the brush ferrule (just found out that's what the metal part of a paint brush is called) was cut from a snippet of silver card stock and laid on top.  Various alcohol markers were used to colour the brush handles and paint dipped bristles.

I like the added texture and dimension of using the stamps with the die cuts.

 I've used bolder colours than Sarah and replacing that dusty pink with orange (used an orange mat too).

I used Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink (blue), Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink (yellow), Lady Bug Memento Ink (red) and Mustard Stazon Ink (orange) for the ink splatters. 

I've loved analysing and CASEing Sarah's card and hope you get a chance to play along with us for this special challenge.

Since the paint set was NBUS, I'd like to join NBUS Challenge #59;

I'd also like to join Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!  Your visits and comments are always a joy and always appreciated!  And if you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you!

Kate