I couldn't resist a second card today, because I really wanted to use it to make a bathroom scene. I started by printing the CDD koala digi with the vanity and towel. Then I drew in a bathtub and bubbles, a tiled wall, and a wood floor. It was a lot of coloring but it was really fun. When I was a kid we had a blue bathtub with white and blue tiles around it. I couldn't picture the tub and tiles any other color for my card. Funny thing about those tiles is that I spent the first 25 years of my life trying desperately to find a pattern in the tiles. I would stand there in the shower counting tiles--one, two, three white, and then a blue, one, two, blue--never finding a pattern. I ultimately decided it was a piece of a much larger pattern and if the tiles went on further, there would be a pattern to it. It actually drove my siblings crazy too. So this back tiled wall is a tribute to my childhood bathroom.
Registered: February 19, 2011 Location: Fullerton, CA Posts: 14979
Mon, Aug 03, 2020 @ 11:08 AM
Great coloring and I love all the elements you drew in. The tile reminds me of bathrooms I visited in my youth too...we didn't have tile in ours. That koala is adorable and it makes me just want to jump in the tub and relax too. Fun, fun card.
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 131477
Mon, Aug 03, 2020 @ 1:00 PM
Smiling, I do love koalas. I saw this earlier, but I was in the middle of deep-frying pork for sweet and sour, so I couldn't comment. What a delightful scene, and sweet sparkle. I had to smile at what you wrote about trying to find the pattern. I remember when I was in my early teens we used to take a cottage right beside the sea, over on the west coast. The ceilings were pine planks, and we used to spend hours when we should have been going to sleep trying to work out if any of the planks matched each other with the knot holes.
Registered: February 27, 2007 Location: LaCrosse, Wisconsin Posts: 39263
Mon, Aug 03, 2020 @ 3:20 PM
The house I lived in from age 13 until marriage had small blue and white tiles on the floor. I think they were hexagons. I loved those tiles and I think they weren't a random pattern but predictable. Your creation is adorable.
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