Guest Design Spot at Delightful Challenges

Well, you could  have knocked me over with a feather last week, when I got an email from Wendy at Delightful Challenges to tell me I'd won a guest design spot on Digital Delights for my project for a recent OSAAT challenge - the table centre. (It also won a top three spot with Papercrafting Journey.) Many thanks to both DTs for the honour!

I had a tough choice picking out which images to use from the Digital Delights by Louby Loo shop. But in the end, my background won out, and I chose a set called  Scotland Ian. I could've chosen a Scottish girl too, but for some strange reason, I felt like doing a male-themed card, and since that mood doesn't strike me often, I didn't question it.

Isn't he cute? I coloured the figure and the bagpipes with Promarkers, but the flag I coloured in Photoshop Elements to use it as a backing. The background paper is one I made in PSE using the colours from the image - True Blue and Tulip Yellow with Black (from my Promarker chart.) In fact, the flag should've been a slightly different shade - apparently, the currently official colour for the Saltire is Pantone 300, but that's not too far from my hexadecimal equivalent to True Blue so I went with that. (I was interested to know that until fairly recently (2003) the only requirement was the heraldic 'azure' which covers pretty much any shade of blue you care to imagine.)

It's not obvious from the photo, but I've slightly layered the flag - putting some sticky pads in a line down at one point so that it's waving just a little bit. The figure and bagpipes have had a similar treatment - curved around a bit and attached with sticky pads. Being a male-themed card, I've kept it fairly simple otherwise - just adding a border cut with a Spellbinders borderability die. It should have been a different border - I was going to use a Fiskars border punch, but the handle shattered in my hand when I went to cut the second bit of it. Can't say I'm impressed with the Fiskars punches - that's the second of the two I've had that's gone. The first just got stuck and nothing I could do would release it. I just hope my newer border punches (Martha Stewart) prove more resilient.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Sugar Creek Hollow where 'Anything Goes'
Cute card Thursday where the theme is 'Music and Dance'
Digi Doodles where 'Anything Goes'
Crafty Pad who want digital images,
Gingerloft Challenges who want die cuts or punches. (Borderabilities die used.)