Tuesday, 28 October 2014

BFG

My favourite film from a Roald Dahl book has to be 'The BFG' with David Jason voicing the BFG. I love the way he gets words mixed up and also his logical use of the English language, such as referring to the Queen as Majester (pronounced Majest - her!) Anyway all this rambling is just to introduce a card I made with the Docrafts BFG stamps and a page from a very tatty copy of the book.

SAM_0887 watermarked

Materials used:
page from old BFG book
Docrafts Roald Dahl stamps
Memento tuxedo black inkpad
Spectrum noir pencils
A5 white card blank
old purple paper bag

Method:
I managed to find a page in the book that had a blank space at the bottom so I could stamp the BFG into this. I coloured the image with greys and black Spectrum Noir pencils then tore the page into a panel. I matted the panel onto a piece of purple paper out of a bag from a shop then stuck the topper onto the front of the card. Finally I used the banner stamp and the words to put the greeting in.

[caption id="attachment_790" align="aligncenter" width="271"]SAM_0888 watermarked coloured with greys and black Spectrum Noir pencils[/caption]

Since I used newsprint, purple (my favourite colour at the moment and a snippet) and a greeting on the front, my card qualifies for several challenges so I am off to make the links! (I have thought of 4, which must be a record for me!)

Thank you for visiting. Take care.

Pippa

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
Less is More Recipe Week 195: Newsprint
Outlawz Greetings Card Challenge - OCTOBER 27th - Anything Goes
Your Scrapbook Place - black, white and your favourite colour
Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 148
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13 comments:

  1. Sid28 October 2014 at 14:54

    Great idea and great card too !!

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  2. Di28 October 2014 at 16:41

    Oh I love this! My immediate thought was how good it would be for LIM - and of course the Snppets Playground. Thank you for coming to play again Pippa!

    Hugs

    Di xx

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  3. Sarah28 October 2014 at 23:09

    Super classy and great use of newsprint.
    Thanks for sharing.
    Sarah
    Less is more

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  4. Anne Ray29 October 2014 at 07:27

    Pippa this is gorgeous, must have taken some willpower to cut up that well loved book though! Super CAS card
    Thank you so much for joining us this week at Less is More
    Anne
    LIM Designer

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  5. Pippa29 October 2014 at 11:05

    Thanks Di, I shall continue to pop into the playground when I can but it is all hotting up for Christmas now that the half term break is almost over!

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  6. Pippa29 October 2014 at 11:06

    Thank you Sarah.

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  7. Pippa29 October 2014 at 11:07

    Thank you Anne. I have a confession to make with the book, my daughter found an old copy at a car boot sale so it was easier to deface a book that I had no emotional attachment too!

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  8. chrissieann29 October 2014 at 18:56

    I love Roald Dahl, reminds me about years of reading his stories to my kids in school.
    I should use my stamps more!
    Super job!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  9. Pippa29 October 2014 at 19:30

    Thank you Chrissie. I have to confess I am not a huge Roald Dahl fan but I do like the BFG film and the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder.

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  10. Di30 October 2014 at 12:41

    Ha, ha - that's just an excuse so we don't rope you into directing the Playground Nativity play :) Mrs A and I are gearing up for the annual fight of who gets to be the front end of the donkey! Have fun - if they're little ones it's so magical to see Christmas through their eyes!

    xx

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  11. Pippa30 October 2014 at 16:05

    Thank you Sid.

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  12. pat martin16 November 2014 at 16:03

    Pippa, please email me: patacake1956@yahoo.com

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  13. Linda Weber19 November 2014 at 14:51

    A huge Congratulations Pippa on your win at YOUR SCRAPBOOK PLACE!

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