Calgon, Take Me Away!

 Hello again! Hope you are all well. I'm down to the wire entering the card I'm sharing today in the challenge I made it for, so please bear with me. I'll be adding to and finishing this post as soon as I get the card entered! Update: Done!

First, let me say, this probably was over my pay grade to attempt as unfocussed and scatter-brained as I am right now. But I like playing in The Library Challenge (I worked in libraries in high school and college), and this was the first opportunity I had, with only a day to go. Anyway, I got her done and had some fun. The challenge is Big Red Bath and I was inspired by the book cover:

The card is for my sister-in-law's birthday coming up. It wasn't easy thinking of an adult theme using this cover, lol.

     

My card design began with this Split Coast Stampers sketch SC453, even though it might not be evident. I saw the bathtub where the two smaller circles are and the window with it's rounded top in place of the larger circle. And that's where I got the idea to put the "zoo" on the outside looking in, the sentiments saying let them wait and take time for yourself. Only problem was, the bathtub digi was the wrong way for the sketch, so I flipped it horizontally before printing it. (And I'll confess, I first thought to flip the sketch but then I was like, no you idiot, just flip the digi.)

I used a variety of 6x6 patterned paper collections: Polkadoodles Peeling Paint, Prima Almanac and Prima Moulin Rouge, as well as a DCWV card stock base and SU card stock for matting. The bath gal popped up on dimensionals is "Bubble Bath Piper" from Some Odd Girl digi stamps (at Whimsy Stamps), the pretty picture window is a Spellbinders die "Daydreaming" which was gifted me by a fabulous friend, and the peepers outside looking in are all Gerda Steiner's -- hand stamped, colored and die cut on sticker paper. I added a couple of Quickutz cloud diecuts to the sky. I used Promarkers and metallic gel pens to color everything. The sentiments are my own, computer generated. I added 3 water droplets gems from my stash to the upper right corner of the card.

Here's a pic of what the animals in the window looked like before I added the top paper layers and the window frame die. You can see the faint pencil outline of the window, which I drew first by lining up my papers after die cutting the window on my top paper. This enabled me to color the sky and arrange/adhere the animals and clouds to my liking. At that point, I really wanted to make a shaker out of it but no time. After the top paper layers are added, the window frame die cut goes inside the window aperture, so it covers up the pencil marks, yay! 

On the inside of the card I hand-stamped Papertrey Ink and Avery Elle sentiments on Prima paper mats. The bathtub is a digi by The Stamping Boutique (NLIB) and I colored with Promarkers and gel pens. The Keep Calm sentiment was computer generated by me.

The back has a sheet of the Prima with leftover scraps and a white-heat embossed stamped Papertrey siggie.

And a final view. This card cracks me up and I know my sis-in-law will get a good chuckle, too. Thanks for visiting and I hope you are all having a nice weekend with good weather and sunshine! Until next time, stay crafty! XOX

MY CHALLENGES PLAYLIST:

1.   Split Coast Stampers sketch SC453

2.   The Library Challenge #77: Big Red Bath  

3.   Gerda Steiner SYD Challenge March 2021: AG with GSD stamps -- I used stamps and dies from Party Animals and Go Wild

4.   Outlawz Paper Saturdays 2/27-3/12: Outside Looking In

5.   Time Out Challenge #182: 7th Birthday Celebration  

6.   The Sisterhood of Crafters 2/24-3/7: AG -- #2/3

7.   AAA Birthday Game #23: Patterned Paper -- Polkadoodles, Prima Almanac and Prima Moulin patterned papers  

8.   Pearly Sparkles #60: Must Use a Digi Stamp -- I used a Some Odd Girl digi (Bubble Bath Piper)

9.   Creative Sketchy Girls #57: Girls Only

10. NBUS Challenge #24: AG with Never Before Used Schtuff -- First time to use the Spellbinders "Daydreaming" window die