Going cuckoo....

How thrilled was I this week, when I got to play with 'Ikes Art - Cuckoo Clock'!?!

The theme over at Glitter n Sparkle, is..

"include an animal"

(on the last count, there were:

2 birds, one owl, three butterflies and a squirrel)

I love this image -

although it was a real challenge to colour! 

(You kinda think it all needs to be brown,

like a wooden cuckoo clock....)

...but I took that challenge and did my best with it. 

(Actually, I made a card after colouring the image, and just hated it, 

so ripped it up and binned what I couldn't reuse.

I had to print out the image again and I had a much better stab at it... )

So this is card number 2.

I'm much more pleased with it!

I coloured this with my promarkers...and used about 6 different shades of brown

 and 2 different greens

The two little birds (underneath the clock)

 were from my memory box die, which just fit beautifully.

The diecut corners are from a cuttlebug die that I got recently

(a bargain £1 for 4 corner dies,,,still sealed!)

and the butterflies are punched from my old favourite..Martha Stewart.

The distressed looking background is another fairly new item I have...

I won this on a blog challenge last year and hadn't got round to using it yet.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges...

Crafty calendar - things with wings - 5 June

Fairytale  - feathers and wings - 6 June

Simply create too - KISS - 5 June

Simply papercraft - anything goes - 4 June

Crafty creations - all creatures great and small - 8 June

Crafty gals - critters - 2 June

Pennys papercrafty - anything goes - 2 June

Through the craft room door - anything goes - 2 June

Tuesday throwdown - anything goes - 2 June

The pink elephant - anything goes - 1 June

Love to craft - anything goes - 1 June

Crafting from the heart - anything goes - 31 May