Paper Cuts

May 12 2008

A Chick Challenge–Designer Style

Published by Michele Boyer at 8:03 am under Cornish Heritage Farms, My Designs

Today’s Chick Challenge at Cornish Heritage Farms is to case something from the CHF gallery. It can be a direct case of a card, page or project, or a case of designer style. The designers decided to case each other, but you can choose anything from the gallery if you’d like to play! (Details here.) I stalked Sherrie Siemens‘ gallery to see what I could find.

Boys Will be Boys

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I’ve always admired Sherrie’s work so to choose one of her designs to case was a bit of a challenge in itself. I wanted to use this new image from The Rummage Bin at CHF, Boys Will be Boys (available tomorrow, May 13). After going through Sherrie’s gallery, I found this adorable card. I realized if I turned the sketch on it’s side, the sentiment would be in the proper place and it would work perfectly!

In deciding what to use in place of the flower on Sherrie’s card, I stalked her gallery once again and found this great embellishment idea. She used a clip of We R Memory Keepers Hardware…of which I have every color of metal and have been hoarding so what better time to break that seal than now! (I’m rolling my eyes at myself.)

I used Adirondack inks to color the image. Since I don’t have any reinkers, I just pressed each ink pad into a spot on my Stamp-a-ma-jig imaging sheet and picked up the color with a water brush. It worked great.

Be sure to check out the other CHF chicks to see what they did:

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day!

Cardstock: Prism Suede Brown Dark, Natural Smooth Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Archaic Stamps: “Boys Will be Boys” from The Rummage Bin at Cornish Heritage Farms Ink: Jet Black Stazon; Sandal, Peach Bellini, Cloudy Blue, Pebble, Latte, Oregano, Slate, Denim and Espresso Adirondack by Ranger; Walnut Stain Distress by Ranger Accessories: Water brush, sewing machine, We R Memory Keepers copper clip, Karen Foster thumbtack brad, brown twill. Card size 4 ¼” x 5 ½”.

27 Responses to “A Chick Challenge–Designer Style”

# Christina Fischeron 12 May 2008 at 8:17 am

Michele, this is such a great boy card!!! Love the colors and embellishments!

Hope you had a great Mother’s Day!
# Dee Jacksonon 12 May 2008 at 8:42 am

Wow Michele!! This is gorgeous!! I love the way you colored the little boy and the layout with all the stitches. This is awesome:)
# Dawn Eastonon 12 May 2008 at 9:13 am

Fantastic card Michele! That is a fabulous image, one that I’ll surely need wonderful colour choices as well!
# Bonnie aka raduseon 12 May 2008 at 9:19 am

Too cute. That sentiment is just perfect.
# flossieon 12 May 2008 at 9:38 am

Love this card and what a fantastic image, can’t wait for the release.
# Julia Staintonon 12 May 2008 at 10:05 am

Awwwww this is the absolute sweetest! Love your design Michele! Beautiful card for the challenge!
# jacksonbelleon 12 May 2008 at 10:15 am

This is darling M! That stamp is awesome, love the sewing!
# Dawn Luskon 12 May 2008 at 10:26 am

omgoodness…. Michele!!! this is beyond adorable!! fabulous job!!!
# Sherrieon 12 May 2008 at 10:46 am

Love it, love it , love it!!!!! The colors are wonderful, love that striped paper and what an honor to have you case me…..too cool!
# Lisa Silveron 12 May 2008 at 12:04 pm

Stunning card! He’s so sweet and your coloring is so stellar!

hugs,

lise
# Valon 12 May 2008 at 12:16 pm

Sweet card, love the vintage feel with the paper and color combination!
# Alli Mileson 12 May 2008 at 12:17 pm

WOW WOW WOW!!! Absolutely stunning! The colouring is out of this world, the layout is perfect. Great job Michele.
# Danielleon 12 May 2008 at 1:01 pm

This is gorgeous! I love that image and the perfect sentiment! Great coloring on this and I love the hardware!!
# Kim Hugheson 12 May 2008 at 1:03 pm

this is absolutely darling in every way
# Linda Marieon 12 May 2008 at 2:13 pm

Most EXCELLENT artwork!!
# Lisa Keeffeon 12 May 2008 at 3:58 pm

This card ROCKS!!!! I can see my little boy in him! It can almost make me cry how real and touching it is! Way to GO!!!! I LOVE IT! Lisa K
# Suzanne Lumberon 12 May 2008 at 5:25 pm

This is beautiful I love this image it is gorgeous. Sue :o)
# Carolyn Kingon 12 May 2008 at 9:52 pm

this is fantastic…love the coloring and the design. Great stamp too!!!
# Rose Annon 12 May 2008 at 11:32 pm

This is wonderful, Michele!! That image looks a bit tricky to color, and you’ve done it so beautifully!! I love all of your stitching too!!
# diane (cookiestamper)on 13 May 2008 at 8:22 am

Love this! What a great image!
# bronihon 13 May 2008 at 9:09 am

That’s exactly how I use my Adirondack inks! Gotta love the multi-purpose SAMJ sheet! I just adore this card! And your color wash on that great image is so beautiful! What a cool way to use the hardware! That Sherrie is such a clever girl!!!
# Leslie (leslierich)on 13 May 2008 at 12:34 pm

What a fabulous vintage image. Outstanding coloring and card design. I love it!
# Susan (rainy)on 13 May 2008 at 2:51 pm

Oh I LOVE this image! Being the mom of 4 boys… well this just goes straight to my heart. You have colored it so perfectly.. Love this, Michele
# loricraigon 14 May 2008 at 12:32 am

Yes, she’s got a market with those hardware clips, doesn’t she! I love the coloring! This is just adorable!
# Joan Bon 15 May 2008 at 5:44 am

Gorgeous gorgeous. Wow, this stamp is amazing and so is your work.
# trudeeon 16 May 2008 at 9:03 pm

Gorgeous coloring, and I love the way you used that hardware!
# peach bellinion 26 May 2008 at 2:50 pm

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