I made another girl's birthday card using my new Marci Ballerina stamp. I coloured Marci image with Prismacolor + Derwent Coloursoft pencils and OMS then lightly chalked around her with Kaisercolour blue chalk. I added some Kindyglitz Crystalina glitter to the hem and roses on the dress plus the rose in Marci's hair, then added some Kasier SB718 Bliss pearls to the hair as well.
I chose the satin ribbon specifically to match the ribbons on Marci's ballet shoes and added it in 2 separate elements. I made the double-bow with my Bow Easy which was super-easy - I don't know why I haven't done it before LOL!!
The sentiment medium teal cs circle was diecut using my CB and Spellbinder Lacey Circle Nesties and both the image and sentiment panel are popped up on doublesided foam squares/mounts/dimensionals.
The background roses designer papers is digital from Bearly Mine Designs from the BM Floral Fantasy Set - and this particular paper is #18. The plaid dp is also digital which I made myself using photographic editing software - my first time creating my own paper which was time-consuming but lots of fun!
The tiny gems on the two flower centres on the sentiment panel started life as pale pink gems - but I coloured them with a Bic Mark-It Peach Parfait marker to match the peach cardstock. I have been following a thread on one of the SCS Forums about "Ways to make do instead of buying new" and someone posted that you can colour gems/pearls with Bic Mark-Its to change their colour (some people use Copics but I don't have any) so I tried it and was really pleased with the results. You can follow this thread here: Ways to make do instead of buy new by Barbara Jay at Splitcoaststampers
Registered: October 21, 2010 Location: in the okanagan in b.c. canada Posts: 13012
Tue, Mar 15, 2011 @ 11:13 AM
What a cutie patootie....well colored and love your background,with that pretty ribbon well done...:0)
------------------------------ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.