Clear It Out Challenge

It's that time again . . . time to get your crafty on, empty out your stash bins and join us over at Clear It Out Challenge blog for our new challenge.  Like so many others, I've been super busy the past couple weeks getting the kiddo ready to go back to school and am ready to get my crafty on.  And what better way to get started than with a challenge . . . right? :)  So once again, our wonderful "boss lady" rose to the occasion and made the challenge super easy, peasy . . . but FUN!!!  Are you ready?

Okay, it's challenge time!!!

Theme:  Back to School

Stash:  chipboard

You have 2 weeks to play (until Sept. 2).

Our sponsors this this challenge will be:

click HERE to see DD's fun images

click HERE to see QKR's fun images

click HERE to see Limited Runs' fun images

When I think of back to school, I think of fall because like for many others my age and older school use to start in the fall or right after Labor Day . . . not mid-August like schools are doing now.  So when I saw this DigiDarla image of a kitty playing in leaves, I knew I had to play with it . . . not only because it reminded me of fall, but also because it was a kitty or cat which is my nickname, "Kat".  :)

This time I decided to do something a little different.  The first thing was I did a different type of fold for the card base.  The second thing was, I colored two (2) of the image so I could fussy-cut some of the leaves to make them look like they were floating down on my chipboard frame.  Here's how it turned out:

Front

Inside

For this card, I used some scraps I had from Close To My Heart along with the sentiment "Autumn is nature at her best".  I colored the kitty and leaves with my Copic markers, added a chipboard frame to go over the image, added some burlap and put tiny pearls at each corner of the frame.  All-in-all I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. What do you think?

Till the next time I'm up in the night.  Kathy