Anyway, back to my challenges. My 2 digital freebies this week have given me a crafter's block. What do to with a window and an empty wheelbarrow. The designers examples had more or less done what was in my head. I really stressed over this one. In the end, I just went with what my head told me, so sorry if they are along a similar vein to the designers.
As well as the wheelbarrow, I used a previous free digi stamp, from a few weeks ago. I also had a little stamp which says "If friends were flowers, I'd pick you", I thought this went well with the flowers. Ah well, this challenge certainly challenged my little brain.
The second image was even more challenging - what do you do with an empty window? I coloured the image background with brown distress ink, then I used my spectrum noir pens to colour the window and frame. I then slit round the shutters with my craft knife so that they opened, but you can't see that very well from the picture. I cut out a little window box from some spare card and put little flowers behind it. Then I was stuck, I wanted it to look different from the DT. Eventually I dedcided to add the little girl to give some interest. Then I printed off 3 little plant pots and put some flowers on them. I added "New" and "Home" to 2 of them before I printed them off. Lastly I used a Spellbinders lattice die to put behind the image and added a threaded a piece of ribbon through it. Hey Presto - end result was this.
I have entered these both into the CFC Challenge for this week.
