Walk like an Egyptian

This is my second week as a guest DT on the Outlawz Sketch challenge where the awesome sponsor is Tamara, aka The Stamping Chef, and I’ve used her gorgeous Nile Goddess on my card.

Here’s the great sketch for this week, which I flipped and resized to a 6x6 square for my card.

Now of course I had to go Egyptian themed and it was amazing what my stash offered up, nothing less than a piece of paper that looks like papyrus, don’t ask me when I got it or where but sometimes I really love my stash!  I printed a couple of lines of hieroglyphics for two of the vertical line elements and raided my stash again for the gold braid for the ribbon element.  In keeping with my Egyptian theme I swapped out the bow for the an ankh that I cut from a metal sheet and then embossed.

You can’t do a card featuring a pharaoh without a whole lot of bling and I’ve got loads on my card.  I wish I’d had another of the triangle Swarovski crystals to put on the bottom of my braid but sadly I didn’t and I couldn’t find anything similar (my stash didn’t come good this time) so I just left the bottom blank.  I used the border part of the Cuttlebug embossing folder as the pattern was better sized but couldn’t get the top of the ankh embossed without flattening the sides again so I added in a bit more bling with a brad to cover it.  I picked my die cut as it was shaped a bit like a beetle and I was going for a scarab shape.  To help with that effect I added clear embossing powder to make it super shiny.

With all my bling and the sparkle on my die cut I am entering this in the current challenge at Southern Girls.  As I’ve used a Stamping Chef image I am also linking this up at their current anything goes challenge.

 

Oh and has my title got you singing yet?  Surely you remember The Bangles’ hit Walk Like an Egyptian, I know it was back in 1985, yes, really, I know, feeling old yet?! but it was a catchy tune.  This lovely image has the right pose and everything so I am entering this in Crafty Catz’s current inspired by a song challenge.

So when you’re finished singing why not come join the fun over at Outlawz, all you have to do is follow the sketch and have fun.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E50, E51, E53 (R02 cheeks)

Eyes E33, E37, 0

Lips R24, R29

Outfit BG01, BG02, BG05, BG07, N0, N1, N2, R24, R29, R46, R59, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Cuttlebug Anna Griffin Embossing Folder ~ Foundry

Marianne Creatables ~ Petra’s Large Oval

Embellishments

BoBunny Somewhere In Time Ephemera ~ Brad

Flourish with a Bling Pearls ~ Black

Jolee’s All That Bling ~ Multi Color Multi Shape Gems

Swarovski Crystal

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Antique Linen

Papers

Artools Metal Sheet ~ Copper

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Liquorice

Papyrus Print Paper from stash

Ribbons & Trims etc

Gold Braid from stash

Stamps

Deposit Photos ~ Egyptian Hieroglyphics

The Stamping Chef ~ Nile Goddess

Challenges

Crafty Catz #234 ~ Inspired by a Song

Southern Girls #91 ~ Sparkle and Shine with a Bit of Bling

The Stamping Chef #33 ~ Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by!