ying yang turtle

Hi all...

The back story behind my paper pieced birthday card is simple. My daughter has a friend that LOVES turtles and so my daughter asked me to make her a turtle birthday card.  I ended up designing two and my daughter picked the ying yang turtle so here is the end product.

 I used Inkscape to design the turtle and the waves. My daughter is bless as an artist and I tell people I am blessed as a crafter. I work better creating things with computer programs and she works better with pencil and paper.

Anyway, I went looking for turtles on line and after looking at many pictures, I came up with two ideas. The cute kind and this ying yang one. My daughter picked the ying yang one of course. She's 12. Need I say more. :)

Once I finished the turtle to her liking. I was playing with different paper patterns for the body. She told me I need to add some water. Really! I went looking through my files and couldn't find any waves so I went to Cricut and Silhoutte (I owe both die cutting machines.) and realized I didn't have any waves and I was too cheap to go pay for a file.

I went back to Inkscape and did a Google search of waves. Again I found a few different pictures and drawings of ones so I let them inspire me and these are what I came up with.

When I put them on the card, I decided to move raise some to give the waves more depth.

So there you have it, a card and how my brain works when I decide to use die cutting over stamping for my card front.

I hope you enjoyed it and I look forward to chatting with you in the near future about whatever takes over my crafty life for a few days.

I have entered this card in these challenges:

Crafty Creations Challenges #337 - Anything Goes and DT Call

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #151 - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination Challenge Blog #124 - Anything Goes

The Crafty Addicts Challenge Blog Challenge #34 - Anything Goes/Clean and Simple (CAS)

Crafty Girls Creations Challenge #34 - Anything Goes

Simon Says: Use More Than One Die Or Punch