Lawnscaping Challenge #41, Entry No.1: Happy Birthday!

Friday, September 07, 2012

Lawnscaping Challenge #41, Entry No.1: Happy Birthday!

This week was an exciting week - mainly because my birthday was on Wednesday! I am now officially 34! I love my birthday and it totally doesn't make a difference to me that I'm getting older - I still may as well be a 4-year-old when it comes to birthdays, that's how much I love them!

I went back to school this fall to start working towards my DMA (Doctorate of Music - for those of you who don't know, I'm a professional flutist) and it turns out that Wednesday was also Hayley's birthday (a girl I met at school who is from New Zealand.) Hayley and I discovered that we have a mutual obsession with owls and decided that, between sharing a birthday and loving owls, we have to be friends. I made an owl birthday card for Hayley and am entering it into the current Lawnscaping Challenge, which is to make a card based on a particular sketch.

Yainea (who is absolutely one of the most amazing card designers ever) is this month's guest designer (yay!) and she came up with this card to inspire us in this challenge:

This is actually my first time creating from a sketch, and while it was a little tricky it was also nice to have some kind of guideline. As you can see, I rotated the card 90 degrees and placed the focus in the center (from top to bottom) of the card rather than more toward the top. I thought my particular card was better balanced this way. I'm going to try another couple of cards for this challenge still to see how else I can interpret this sketch. Anyway, I hope you like my card - Hayley loved it!