I made this card for 2 challenges today. The first challenge is the Free For All Challenge. Dawn is our hostess and she has a wonderful challenge called, "Back to Square One." I love this and just had to play.
The 2nd challenge is for this week's Alphabet challenge. Ann is our hostess and she has chosen the letter H for this week. The H in this card is the hydrangea image.
I colored the image with colored pencils which is a really big deal because I am a copic marker girl and not a colored pencil girl. However, I do want to use colored pencils more so this was the project for it. I have a lot to learn using colored pencils because I much prefer the way Liz colored her image over the way I colored mine.
I cut the image into squares and mounted the individual squares onto black cardstock. Well, I mounted them crooked even though I laid them out perfectly (sigh). I had to think about this for a while, and I asked Liz about it too. Liz had a great suggestion to cut the mounted-on-black squares again into 4 larger squares and that helped a lot because I was ready to trash this. I Layered the card up and added Nuvo crystal gems for some fun sparkle on a dreary day.
Thank you Dawn and Ann for the great challenges and thanks for looking! ~Karen.
Date: Friday, May 22, 2020 GMT Views: 1548
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Registered: February 22, 2007 Location: L’etoile du Nord Posts: 6330
Fri, May 22, 2020 @ 8:56 AM
WOW!!! Karen, you have created a gorgeous work of art with this!! "Happy accidents..."! :-) I absolutely love the way you made this work as a 'window'! Love the sparkly bits, too! Your coloring is wonderful! So happy you didn't trash this!! Hugs!!
------------------------------ -----Liz "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, ..." ~~1 Thess. 4:11 (NIV)
Registered: June 29, 2004 Location: Sugar Land. Texas Posts: 79473
Fri, May 22, 2020 @ 9:18 AM
Karen, this is beautiful. I really like all the extra layering you did on this. These kinds of cards are very challenging for me to get straight but your save just added some extra contrast of color and it looks fabulous.
------------------------------ LizThe joy of the LORD is my strength.Right Brain Madness --My blogProud member of the redDivasKSS certified multi-step stamperFan Club member since 2004
Registered: April 6, 2009 Location: Weyers Cave, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley Posts: 31101
Fri, May 22, 2020 @ 10:14 AM
This turned out so pretty, Karen! Love the look of your tiny squares for a rather large image. I think you did a Splendid job with the pencils, though they are quite different to work with. Just remember that practice makes perfect and keep at it. Beautiful card....love the crystal gems~
------------------------------ ~Roberta
�Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.�
― Lou Holtz
Registered: March 13, 2011 Location: Langley, B.C. Canada Posts: 32109
Fri, May 22, 2020 @ 10:44 AM
Karen, this is a wow of an H card. It is hard to line things up at the best of times, but yours turned out wonderfully. I really like the light those gems catch in the window! Your coloring looks perfect to me!
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28836
Fri, May 22, 2020 @ 11:07 AM
There are no English words to describe how beautiful this is!!! You have so much talent Karen!!!
------------------------------ 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