Wednesday 11 June 2014

Muse 71, RS118 - Modern Father's Day


There are so many great challenges around that it's hard to play in as many as I would like. So I thought I would start combining them. Harder than it sounds (for me, anyway!)

This father's day card came together a little unexpectedly. I started with the Retro Sketch:



In fact, I started by trying to combine this sketch with my Festive Friday card for this Friday, but it wasn't working. Then it hit me that DAD is a 3-letter word. Perfect for the sketch.  I looked at my various alphabet dies and settled on this new 'Smooth' Alphabet from Papertrey. The letters were almost too big for my 1" squares, so I decided to go with it and cut them off the edge.

That's when I started to realize that this could also be my Muse card - colour-stacked die cuts with the top layer matching the card base (although this is much less fun than Therese's DP!)


So a reasonable start at combining challenges!  But it's time to get this baby into the mail or it will be late!



23 comments:

  1. Oh my, this card is EXTREMELY cool! A little piece of modern art. Love it!

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  2. Great letter-shapes! The bright colours are just enough to make it special; great design! Hugs, Gerrina

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  3. Oh my.... This is just amazing Ardyth !!
    Love the colours and knocked out letters :)

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  4. wow, a very cool card. love the craft color with the hint of color and the saying, also the whole design.
    P.S. thanks for picking my card for a Honorable Mention on my card, happy news make my day :-))
    Manuela

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  5. Wow, this is brilliant, Ardyth. I caught myself thinking 'How would Ardyth CASify the new (awesome) Muse card and turn it into a graphic card'? I guess I have my answer now. Absolutely love it! Thanks for making me look at design in a new light. Now all I need to do is to actually go forth and create...

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  6. Brilliant card - quite sleek and ultra cool :)

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  7. AWESOME card! Love the letters...very cool!

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  8. Wow, you did a great job combining the challenges Ardyth! I'm always in awe how people can do this. lol I love this card and love how you hung the letters off the square. Looks so neat and so awesome!! Hugs, Brenda

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  9. How cool! What an amazing card!

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  10. Fabulous - clean & graphic perfection with an awesome sentiment!

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  11. Great combo on the challenges Ardyth! I always look at your cards and have these 'aha' now why didn't I think of that moments! Hope you are having a great week!

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  12. Ardyth, I love how your card turned out. It give me a different take on die cut images. Good job.

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  13. How CLEVER is this? I LOVE it. That sentiment stamp ROCKS. Awesome design and card. Great take on the sketch.

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  14. Affentittengeil!
    (go look it up ;))

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  15. Wow - I love these letter shapes! Great call with the trendy grey and pops of color. Such a modern look that really does match the font of the letters!

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  16. Teehee, Ardyth ... that's why I started combining challenges ... and these are a perfect pairing! Your card is stunning ... so cool, so trendy and so modern-arty ... love it! Anita :)

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  17. Ardyth, you've done it again! Love the design, and may have to shop @PTI for the alphas. I,too, have started combining challenges, but, for this newby, it really is a challenge. Especially when there is more than one submission for a challenge and they won't allow the linkup - argh????

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  18. Just brilliant! You did pretty well her combining challenges - and if that card is not a winner then I don't know. Have to go now and check out those PTI dies....
    I really wanted to play with the Muse this week, but there just wasn't enough time....

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