thought process/step summary- I had an occasion-Cards for a Cause challenge for the month of February- and the image from my stash of stamped images. First thing I looked for was patterned paper in the scrap bin. Always trying to use up that ever-growing mountain ;) I found the one I used as a layer on top of the yellow card base, and from there I picked which other colors to use according to which inks I happened to have- the sort of canary yellow, the green, and the purple, all Colorbox cat's eyes. Use an aquabrush to paint kitty, leaves, and a floor on the image so it wouldn't be left floating in the air. The pot was still uncolored, and I didn't have any other inks to match with, so I looked through the colors on the patterned paper piece again and picked orange as color choice. Out came the prismacolor pencils, and after testing several oranges on a scrap of paper, settled for this one. After that, I looked through my primas and found these tiny ones, and used those to cover up the plain stamped ones which were part of the image, to make the image panel pop. I knew I had these rhinestones, and used them as flower centers. After the image panel was matted with the yellow card stock, I cut a white cardstock rectangle and stamped the Thank You sentiment on it using the ink I had used to color kitty. Matted that panel with yellow cardstock and added to the card. Didn't like the fact that there was too much white going on, so removed the image and sentiment panels and placed them on the bare back of a letter copy paper (recycling!), and with a lighter color of yellow - another Color Box cat eye pad- used the ink pad itself to sponge lightly the white parts in both panels. Adhered them back on the card. Looked a bit empty to me, though, so with flowers still in mind I took a very small flower stamp out of the Always SU set and stamped it several times on a strip of white card stock with the purple ink used on the image, then again with the dark yellow, and then sponged with the lighter yellow over the remaining white backdrop, as with the other panels. Added rhinestones to the discernible centers of these stamped flowers. Then went a bit crazy adding rhinestones everywhere else, to balance out the large amount used on the top.
I'm wacky. Thanks for looking!
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 GMT Views: 150
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