After stamping the sentiment onto a piece of Fun StamperÂ’s Journey Whip Cream cardstock, I drew the border lightly with a #2 pencil & masked it off using blue painterÂ’s tape. I stamped the flamingo first & colored it. I masked the image before stamping the tree trunk & palm fronds. I drew the coconuts using different colored markers to add shading. Once that was done, I colored in the palm fronds and tree trunk.
Once that was done, I carefully peeled off the painterÂ’s tape & stamped the three flowers & leaves on the right side above the sentiment. Then I went over the pencil marks with a marker to create the border & erased the remaining marks that were inside the flower petals. I water colored the sand and sky with marker ink & my watercolor pen.
Ugh, I did not like this card after all that work! The left side of the bordered area was empty and I didnÂ’t like how the flowers looked. So, I stamped five more flowers & eight leaves on a piece of scrap cardstock, water colored them, then fussy cut them out. After that was done, I glued them onto the card & added a bit of glimmer to the yellow centers & sentiment using Sakura gold & clear glitter pens.
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 131741
Tue, Jul 26, 2016 @ 9:29 AM
Robin - this is beautiful. We saw flamingos on our summer holidays, so it brings back a little sunshine to me - wish I still had sand between my toes right now. I love the extra flowers added above the sentiment, and the happy feeling the card gives. Thanks for playing along in the TLC.
Registered: March 11, 2013 Location: Ingleside, IL Posts: 2449
Mon, Sep 12, 2016 @ 11:39 AM
Isn't it amazing how things come together, the addition of the flowers are perfect and we never would've known your incomplete version. haha
Such a fun, bright, and pretty card. I love it!