03 August, 2014

Zoo

I actually neede to sleep it over and double-check. What a wonderful surprise I found at the cheerfulsketcheschallenge: cheerfulsketcheschallenge.blogspot.com/2014/07/winnaars-challenge-14.html
I guess I really can feel a little bit proud to be chosen among all the beautiful entries that came in for the 14th challenge :)
What's next? They say, First come the duties, then the fun. So, after some learning and housework, I had a little time to be creative during the weekend. And the new sketch-challenge was a perfect pattern for my cards.
For the first card I've chosen this super-cute lion by Slovene illustrator Jelka Reichman. I remember how I adored her bright, playful scenes in my childrens' books and magazines when I was little, and I still love them today. Her motifs seem so full of joy and playful innocence :) Looking at this lion, it seems like he's laughing, and even blushing!
In the background, I added a punched brown paper that reminds me of a tree (I see on the photo it looks like black, but it's brown actually), a few leafs, and clouds. Since the plain white clouds looked a little boring, I painted their border with coloured pencils. The setting of the card fits the cheerfulsketcheschallenge, and as it's meant for a wonderful colleague of mine who happens to be lion by zodiac, I add the card for a last-minute entry at craft-alnica's "Something for boys" challenge. The card also matches the alphabetchallenge "M for men only".

11 comments:

  1. Beautiful cards. I love the lion. His mane is such a fabulous shade of red.

    Thanks for joining our masculine challenge at Alphabet Challenge Blog.

    Mari

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  2. wow nice cards.....thanks for joining Cheerful Sketches.

    groetjes Ine
    http://creaine-challenges.blogspot.nl/

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  3. Mari and Creaine, thanks for the comments :)
    I heard I should split the post in one for each card, so they're seperated now ;)

    Greetings,
    V

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  4. Beautiful! I love the colors. You did a nice job with the sketch. Thanks for joining us at Alphabet Challenges.

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  5. Zelo lepo.
    Hvala, ker si se nam pridružila na 113. izzivu CRAFT-alnice. Lp

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  6. Lepa je, z levom malo kraljevska.
    Hvala, da si z nami v 113. izzivu. Pozdravček Lili

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  7. Krasna je :-))
    Hvala, ker se igraš z nami po “moško” v CRAFT-alnici … Srečno!

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  8. lovely card! Thanks for joining us at Cheerful Sketches

    Hugs,
    Marjoleine

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  9. Your card is again very nice :) Love it.
    Greetings Geesje (DT)

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    1. Thank you for joining us at Cheerful challenges. :)

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  10. You made a lovely card with the sketch of Cheerful Sketches...thank you for joining us!
    xxx Margreet

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