Swallows

Hello blog friends,

We have a new fun challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow this Saturday. The theme is to create a vintage or shabby chic card or project in the colors of your flag. I always admire the different flags at international meetings or sport gatherings – it is such a display of colors and designs. This week we are also pleased to introduce our monthly Guest Designer at Sugar Creek Hollow. She is  Sanja Grdinic from Croatia.

We have six colors on our South African flag – black, white, red, blue, green and yellow. This became the first flag of a united South Africa on 27 April  1994, at the same time that South Africa held its first democratic  elections. Red, white and blue are common in historical flags of South Africa, including colonial flags of Britain and Holland, while green, black and yellow or gold were often colours of the African people. The main design of the flag, the green ‘Y’ starting at the flag post and coming together in the centre of the flag, can be seen  as the coming together of the different people of South Africa, who then take the road ahead together. (Source: Scouts South Africa)

This was quite a challenge for me to use so many bright colors on my card. The image of the beautiful and graceful swallows is from The Graphics Fairy. To achieve a shabby look to my card I painted the roses with gesso. Hope you like my take on the challenge.

Challenges:

• Cute Card Thursday Challenge #275 (ends 07/04) – Fly Like A Bird
• Crafty Calender Calender June Challenge (ends 07/05) – Things With Wings
• Bunny Zoe’s Crafts June Challenge (ends 07/06) – Wings
• Totally Gorjuss Challenge #190 (ends 07/06) – Wings
• A.R.T. Card Challenges #3 (ends 07/02) – Anything Goes
• Crafting By Designs Challenge (ends 07/03) – Anything Goes
• Creative Moments Challenge #20 (ends 07/09) – Flowers
• Crafty Catz Challenge #189 (ends 07/05) – Say It With Flowers
• 613 Avenue Create Challenge #25 (ends 06/29)  – Anything Goes or  Create a Fat Page/Card
• Creative Card Crew Challenge #39 (ends 07/09) – No Designer Paper
• Simply Create Too #40 (ends 07/04) – Use The Colors In Your Country’s Flag

A close up of the image from The Graphics Fairy

The flowers and swallows

The bow and bling on the bird-cage

A peep at the inside

Full view of the inside decorated with a doily and a sentiment

Project details:

• White, green and black cardstock
• White corrugated cardboard
• Vintage scrap from The Graphics Fairy
• Marianne Design Creatables dies “Bird cage LR0146” and “Flourish LR0151”
• Spellbinders Nestabilities die “Picot Edge Circles”
• JustRite sentiment stamp “All Occasion Nested Sentiments”
• Doillies
• Paper roses and rosebuds
• Lace
• Red wax cord
• Tim Holtz Distress ink “Broken China” and “Peeled Paint”
• Skwiglues glitter glue “Crystal”
• Resin corners
• Bling embellishment

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. We would love to see the colors of your country’s flag at the Sugar Creek Hollow Challenge this fortnight.  Have a wonderful day and happy crafting.

Regards from South Africa,

Amelia