Challenge: Young at Heart

oThe Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge for February 6, 2017 was "Young at Heart". The design team suggest that we can "interpret this challenge in a number of ways, the obvious being to add a heart onto your project, but [we] can also interpret as being young at heart and adventurous or daring or..." Well, to me, the words brought to mind the lyrics of a song by Carolyn Leigh and Johnny Richards, copyright Kobalt Music Publishing, Inc. I chose to take the first lines from the song as my inspiration...

Now, to find an image that fit with the words! Well, it so happened that this week, my March issue of Craft Stamper arrived and one of the digital stamps available for download in that issue was a fantastic castle design by Rick St. Dennis. So, for the first time ever, I downloaded digital stamp image, sized it to fit a 5 x 6.5 " notecard, printed and fussy-cut it, colored it with Inktense pencils and Distress Crayons, and glued it to a card front which had been tinted with blends of Distress Inks. I then printed the lyrics and added them to the card front as well:

What is more of a fairy tale than a castle in the clouds! The image is "Hanging On", copyright 2016-17, Rick St. Dennis

Products used in the making of this card were:

• "Stamps" Digital download of "Hanging On" by Rick St. Dennis, copyright 2016-17
• Inks: Intense Pencils "Poppy Red", "Baked Earth" and "Ink Black"; Distress Crayon "Pumice Stone"; Distress Ink "Tumbled Glass" and "Pumice Stone"; printer ink "black"
• Papers: Paper Studion Value Pack Notecards "white"; copying paper
• Adhesives: Ranger Collage Glue Stick