WooHoo it's Tickle a Teapotter time of the month and Sabrina has us thinking about bridges. I bought this bridge die a gazillion years ago and I don't recall ever using it - perfect for this fun challenge.
I die-cut the bridge from a gold box that contained chocolates. DH loved the chocolates, which was a good thing because I only got them because of the box LOL. Wait until he see's the other boxes....err I mean treats that I bought for the holiday season.
To incorporate the bridge I made a centre step card and I inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on myself by using a Martha Stewart border punch on cardstock - I was going for a draw bridge effect. I've got muscles on my muscles after punching this. In the end I had to remake the centre step base and use a fairly light weight cardstock. Note: I reversed the fold and stepped the centre part back and the side bits forward.
The background is regular cardstock that I tried to be very creative with by dripping glittery paint and flicking the paint with a tooth pick. Prior to that I dunked it in Dylusions ink spray and lots of water.
It was 40C/104F here today...not a good day to use paint or to be outside - it pretty much dried the minute it hit the cardstock. The little houses are Lavinia digi images, printed onto copy paper, coloured with Copics and pencils, then fussy cut.
Because the paint dripping didn't really work how I had envisaged so I changed the layout of the card. I quickly adhered the fussy houses to cardstock using a kids jumbo glue stick, then fussy cut again and adhered to the cardbase using Crayola school glue.
Lots of liquid pearl drops were added along with a ton of sparkly Stickles. Sassy Cheryl digi image shoes, legs and hat were added.
The roof on the tall house will bend over the card in order to fit in an envelope. I didn't adhere that portion of the roof to cardstock.
Thank you for looking and I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Thanks for a fun challenge Sabrina and for looking after our monthly tickles.
Date: Thursday, December 27, 2018 GMT Views: 1789
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