DT Mar/14 - Side Easel Slainte - Make a Wish

My turn on the Quietfire Creations blog today. I'm in St Patrick's mode... Suzanne (Quietfire Design) created some great eCut files which are on the Silhouette OnLine store and I thought I'd use one of them "Slainte" - Love it. I've also included a diagram to make a side easel card that isn't square...

I also created the shamrock lattice background that I am giving away free to anyone who wants it. It's available as a jpg image as well as SCUT & Studio files for a Silhouette machine. If you don't have a Silhouette machine or one of these sotfware programs, you will need to be able to convert &/or upload into your software. It will be a ZIP file which will include both a portrait and landscape mode of the lattice for a rectangular card. You can send me an email (yogihg@yahoo.com) to get the file.

Click on card image to see all the details and descriptions or click here to go to my web page.

And it fits for these challenges:
Little Scrap Pieces  #3 St Pat's
Sister Act Card Challenge  #47 anything goes
Crazy 4 Challenges  #226 sentiment as focus
My Time to Craft  #238 frame it
Shelly's Images  monthly March  Luck or lucky
The Crafting Cafe  Monthly March CAS

Inspiration Avenue  Green
The Pink Elephant  #241  Inspir image of green shamrocks
Loves Rubber Stamps  #94 green as main color
Delightful Sketches  use green (2nd entry)

Flourishes 5 day challenges

This week, Flourishes.org is opening their new store. They are issuing a challenge a day for 5 days. Prizes to be won each day. The 1st challenge is a sketch
Here's part of their blurb:

FLOURISHES CELEBRATION CHALLENGE #1

Today, we issue a challenge that’s a bit sketchy…. literally! Flourishes artist Becky Fleck whipped up a special sketch just for our celebration! Use it for your own creation. Link it to Flourishes blog post , and you could walk away the winner of our day one drawing for a goody bag from Flourishes (it’s a fun-filled surprise — trust me it’s good!). If you upload to Splitcoast, please use the keyword FLLCCEL1. You have until Monday, March 15^th at 6 PM EST to link up your cards!

My Entry Into The Big May Copic Giveaway

Well there is a blog give away at The Pen Addict of some copic markers, sketch book and the carrying case. Looks like a great prize and I would love to win it. Copics are not cheap, but definitely a fun tool to have in an artist/calligraphers tool kit. There are a bunch of rules to enter this give-away.
See the Pen Addicts Big May Copic Giveaway for the exact rules 1) need to show by means of a blog or web presence the intent to use these markers (in other words not languish in a desk drawer...) 2) Need to make a current piece of artwork using copics. Well can't get much more current than 20 minutes ago. BIG GRIN. Since I just finished the Peter Thornton classes, those designs were fresh in my mind and I tried to re-create my "D" below. Will need more practice and maybe a few more colors... HInt hint. 3) And thirdly why I want these markers. Well I really love experimenting with new tools. I am totally new to the copic marker world. But already I have experienced some ways to use them in my calligraphic endeavors. I love double loading the brush tips and using the chisel edge portion as a flat edged pen for calligraphic lettering. As I mentioned above, copics are not cheap, so my color palette at the moment is limited. Wining this giveaway, would sure help me supplement my limited supply.

All the artwork in this post was done on inexpensive glossy photo paper. Thanks for looking.