TodayÂ’s Color Challenge has some beautiful colors & the first thing that came to mind was a dappled gray horse.
For my very dappled gray & her foal, I put them in my Misti, stamped w/ Memento, then colored them w/ Copic markers. It took me longer than I thought it would to color the horses….kind of funny when they are basically “gray”. I had to use the blender quite a bit to achieve the dappled look & this is probably the most I’ve ever used a black Copic, but I really needed it for the shadows. Since the cabana & bermuda are pretty much shades of each other, I used those Copic colors to color in the grassy area & add a bit of dappling to the lower background. Then I overstamped with Versafine to sharpen the details. The stitched rectangles & stitched ovals along w/ the plain ovals & rectangles were used to die cut the layers & frames.
Thanks so much for looking! Closeups & Copic colors are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 GMT Views: 1309
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Tue, Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:38 PM
Julie, this is super duper amazing! I love this extraordinary card!
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Tue, Dec 15, 2015 @ 6:26 PM
Love all the layered framing around this. Great card, Julie!
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Tue, Dec 15, 2015 @ 6:43 PM
Julie, you did a fabulous job of attaining the dappled gray of the horse. You have created a beautiful b'day card...especially if it is going to a horse lover.