PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN! CARD FOR A MAN ....

I am Proudly South African!

 

and when it comes to challenges where I need to use my country's flag colours I have a beautiful palette to work with :

 

so when I needed to create  a Guest Designer card for the new Crafting by Designs challenge using my flag's colours in a heritage twist in an Anything Goes theme, I used one of my favourite animal digistamps from Digistamps 4 Joy, called Zebra and created this card :

I applied my 'artistic' licence and found the basic shapes of my flag and started colouring in the same sequence as my flag colours, starting in the top left hand corner.  I had no idea where the colours would take me, and totally unplanned was the large area of yellow.  I think that bright sunshine yellow dominating the card represents South Africa's sunshine   - after all, the adjective often used to describe South Africa is 'sunny'.

The layout of my card comes from a sketch at "Let's Scrap" - I think this CAS layout perfectly showcases the image and gives it pride of place on the card.

 The image is Copics/Spectrum Noir/Graphi'It alcohol markers coloured, cut out and mounted on pale printed DP.  I created the round sentiment in MS Word and printed it directly onto the DP.  A black satin ribbon and bow are the only embellishments. 

I think the strong colours and blold image make this a perfect card for a man!

Some heat embossing with clear embossing powder on the eye gives it sparkle:

Does your flag or heritage give you inspiration for a card?  Come along and enter a creation at Crafting by Designs this week - Digistamps 4 Joy is the sponsor of the generous prize, and you may just be the winner!

I would like to add my masculine CAS card to the following challenges:

CREATIVE CRAFT CHALLENGES, #19, USE RIBBON

PAPERTAKE WEEKLY, MAKE IT SPARKLE

THROUGH THE CRAFTROOM DOOR, ANYTHING GOES

CARD MANIA, #29, FAVOURITE COLOUR COMBINATION

CREATED WITH LOVE, #58, ANYTHING GOES

HOUSE OF GILLI, #54, ANYTHING GOES

LOVE TO CREATE, #83, CLEAN AND SIMPLE

MAKE IT MONDAY, #158, ANYTHING GOES

OOH LA LA, CARDS FOR MEN

TAMMY’S SCRAPIN’ CORNER, #80, ANYTHING GOES

THE PINK ELEPHANT, #217, DIGITAL IMAGES OR PAPERS

DESIGNED TO COLOR, #20, ANYTHING GOES

LADYBUG CRAFTS, SEPTEMBER, ANYTHING GOES

NATALIE AND AMY, #12, EMBOSSING

CUPBOARD TRILOGY, #15, MALE

SCRIBBLE & SCRAP, #1 ANYTHING GOES

CHOCOLATE, COFFEE AND CARDS, #48, ANYTHING GOES

CRAFTY CATZ, #198, CARDS FOR MEN

INSPIRE ME FRIDAYS, #120, ANYTHING GOES

INSPIRE ME FRIDAYS, #120, ANYTHING GOES

WAGS N WHISKERS, #112, RIBBONS AND BOWS

luv'n huggz

Jen Leeflang

Durban

(sunny) SOUTH AFRICA