Saturday, 21 March 2015

SDC 187 Neon

Stampotique Designers Blog challenge for this week is to use neon. This is what the host Astrid Stulemeijer has us say:
At first I was a bit afraid of these intense colours, but after using them, I really love them.  They give your work such a nice "pop".  I challenge you to use at least one neon colour.  Can't wait to see your eye popping work!

A challenge indeed as i wasn’t sure if i owned any neon colours and i don’t find them easy to work with.

Off the check on my stash and found a piece of background card i had over from the taster day i went to at AFTH in February which is very bright, cut out an ATC sized card from it.

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Decided to use Teddy from Stampotique as my muse. Found some very old neon pens in my stash, coloured Teddy in but didn’t fussy cut him out just the basic shape, i stamped him again directly onto the ATC and then adhered the coloured in version over the top.

Sat looking at him for a while then hand wrote the words ‘They told me to trust their design choices. Never ever again…’ Added a bow and a butterfly handbag.

Drew some little white circles on the edge then outlined them using a UniBall Pen, found an old stamp which i partially stamped just for the word Art. Stamped using Vintage Photo Distress ink then outlined the letters with a white Signo Pen. Put that onto a piece of torn kraft paper and then added a piece of book paper. Grounded Teddy with some washi tape from stash.

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Macro shot of Teddy so you can see the bow and butterfly.

Hope you have enjoyed your visit today, thanks for dropping by and looking forward to your lovely comments.

xxx

 

 

 

 

28 comments:

  1. Love the humour, love the quirkiness and the fun! Glad to see that you grounded Teddy,...impudent little bear! Xx

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  2. Ah I love little teddy,he's a little cutie pie! This is fab Mo,it's fun to step out of the comfort side and go wild!
    Big hugs
    Donna xxx

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  3. What a sweet card and a great use of that teddy. Love your colour choices!!

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  4. The teddy is so cute! I love the bright paper in the background and the butterfly is gorgeous! Anne xx

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  5. Super make Mo, I love teddy!!
    Love
    Amanda x

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  6. Aww, I love teddy's fancy bow and think that the quote is quite funny. great make Moh {hugs} :o) xox

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  7. Love him! He looks very happy surrounded by such a fantastic background! Chrisx ps had a great day at AFTH today!!

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  8. Lovely colourful ATC, such a beautiful background xx

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  9. Teddy looks fab with his bow and the butterfly is lovely. Great colour choices and all on a tiny card. Well done xxx

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  10. Fab ATC!! Really glad you joined my challenge this week at Stampotique! XOXO

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  11. Fab ATC!! Really glad you joined my challenge this week at Stampotique! XOXO

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  12. What a lovely little ATC! It was a double challenge working with Neon AND on a mini space too! I love how you really made this work. The background is great and Teddy looks lovely and shabby and loved! xxx

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  13. I love the bright funkiness of this ATC and I love your words and the teddy, very cute xx

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  14. Fabulous ATC. I'm with you on neon! Brights are fine, but neon makes me shudder! Thanks for joining us again for this week's challenge at Stampotique.

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  15. Such a cute teddy & a fab ATC.

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  16. What an absolute fun, fun, fun ATC, Mo! Perfect for this week's Stampotique Designers' Challenge! You rocked this one, my friend! Well done!

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  17. you have used these colours really well, a cute cardx

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  18. A super cute ATC!! Your Teddy is adorable and really maDE me smile behind my screen, I love it!! Coco x

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  19. Hi Mo, cool teddy, I love his tie, Coco is right he made me smile too :D Xx

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  20. Don't you just love that when you find a background panel all ready-made! Wonderful colours Mo and I just love your little teddy guy!! hugs :)

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  21. I'd've been wary too, but I think you've done wonders with the bold neon colours. Adorable ATC!
    Alison xx

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  22. Fab ATC Mo! Love the background and the little teddy really makes me smile, lol!

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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  23. A really lovely ATC - very brave of you to use neon - it's not something I would feel comfortable doing, but you've done a wonderful job and I love Teddy - he's very cute!
    Thanks for stopping by earlier adn for your kind comments, I really appreciate it -
    Diana xx

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  24. I just love this ATC, cute and fun :) :) :)
    Big hugs to you from Poppy and me xx

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  25. What a cute idea to give Teddy this nice handbag! fabulous!
    Happy weekend Mo!

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  26. Hi Mo, Thank you for your lovely offer, you are so sweet!! I will try to get round and comment but if you see that I've missed any then please feel free. I just don't know where the next few days will take me. For now I'm going to catch up DT posts which need to be written.
    Huge hugs,
    Georgie xxx

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    1. Ok Georgie, will do. Hope your visit with Dillan was a good one and results will be back very soon:-) xxx

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  27. Not sure how I got so far behind, but I adore Neon Teddy. Well, at least Teddy's neon background. Loved the humor in the design choice, and really liked the butterfly handbag. Very clever, funny, and FUN.

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