Good morning and happy Friday!
Welcome back for another new challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers blog. Its Friday the 13th and this week we are looking at different types of superstitions. How superstitious are you? Is Friday 13th unlucky in your book? Today's challenge is to be inspired by a superstition! Here are a few examples to get you thinking:
Throw a pinch of spilled salt over your left shoulder to blind the devil - you might feature an image of a little devil or a salt pot. Or use actual salt in your project (e.g. make a salted watercolour background).
Knock on wood for luck - use woodgrain pattern or something made of actual wood on your project.
Breaking a mirror is seven years’ bad luck - use mirror card, a mirror image or a shattered pattern.
Many superstitions are specific to a culture so tell us about the superstition you’ve used in case it’s one we don’t know!
So for my card I have chosen a few different superstitions. How many have you spotted? There's the black cat, the number 13, the colour green and salt. So I started off by creating a salted background using distress oxides and coarse salt. Once I had picked up the distress colours onto the card using the smooshing technique I added salt onto the wet background and left it to dry naturally. Once dry I rubbed off all the salt this gave the background a mottled effect as it absorbed all the access water. I added some details using some stencils by Aallandcreate like the number 13. I coloured one of the cats from the Felines stamp set by Janet Klein and then fussy cut it. Washi tape was added at the bottom of the die cut circle and then mounted onto black before adhereing it to the main card. I decided to stamp the fish bones around the circle and then added the cat and sentiment to the card.
You got an impressive number of superstitions on one card Rizwana! Love the salted background and that little black cat looks like he might be plotting mischief!
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