This card for the challenge came about from a new digi that I purchased. It reminded me of my childhood. We raised sheep, and would get the wool made into yarn and wool bats for quilts. My grandmother taught me to knit. Using the colors today ..colored the image. Using the sentiment that came with the digi, printed it with a light grey...reason. This way I could take the dip pen and use it as a guide to write it in gold ink. The sentiment is from Power Poppy. The knitting needles and steam were outlines with the ink also. embossed with the oval die and added score lines. TFL
Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 GMT Views: 2067
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Registered: June 13, 2008 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 23684
Tue, Nov 22, 2016 @ 6:49 PM
I love that image - nothing nicer on a cold winter afternoon than a cup of tea and my knitting! My grandmother taught my mother to knit and my mother taught me. Beautiful use of the gold ink and pen! And your shading on the wool is amazing!!
------------------------------ Susan
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Registered: March 11, 2013 Location: Ingleside, IL Posts: 2449
Tue, Nov 22, 2016 @ 11:37 PM
Linda, another beautiful card! I love this sentiment and the dimension and shading through your coloring! Fun design with the embossed lines and oval panel. Thank you for sharing your memory of your grandmother. Have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28841
Wed, Nov 23, 2016 @ 7:16 AM
What beautiful coloring skills!!! I love your images and the way the sentiment matches it. Wonderful and beautiful card! Sure to uplift anyone who receives it.
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
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Fri, Nov 25, 2016 @ 4:01 PM
Oh, Linda, I am so behind, but I am so glad I checked your gallery! This.is.GORGEOUS! Wow, you sure know how to watercolor and make this digi fabulous! How wonderful to read about your childhood and raising sheep and making wool. And it's no wonder you learned to knit when you were so young. Beautifully done, as always, sweet friend! I haven't finished coloring this image up yet...had a good start and then I fizzled. Ha! But thanks for delighting my eyes, my friend...as you always do! Hugs! xoxo
------------------------------ Cheryl
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