The Inspiration site is Replacements, LTD. It's a beautiful site & I have used their wonderful replacement service in the past to fill in missing or broken pieces of china. They also helped me identify some crystal that belonged to my great grandmother. While I was browsing the casual china, I happened upon THIS picture. It looked like a Cinco de Mayo fiesta to me so I went w/ a southwest theme.
To make the serape on the side, I used two plaid images, which until you stamp them across each other, are just stripes. I inked the stripes using Tombow markers in red, yellow & green then colored a wide strip & used fringe scissors on it to make the lower border. The image was stamped, colored & die cut w/ a little out of the box to keep the boot tip & rope from being cut off. I used Prismacolor pencils to add the sunset colors behind the image. For the greeting, I stamped it once in the Morocco ink, moved it a tad & stamped it again in brown ink to get the slight shadow.
Thanks so much for looking. Closeups, the inside & Copic/Tombow colors are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Friday, April 27, 2018 GMT Views: 1120
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105268
Sat, Apr 28, 2018 @ 7:37 AM
Boy, do I ever love these festive colors!! And the saying.......my Tony Lamas are upstairs languishing......bunions, no more boots for me, but I just can't get rid of them!! I love your card and the out of the box die cutting!
------------------------------ Anne HarmonFS154, QFTD58, PROUD FAN CLUB MEMBER (photo of our Great Granddaughter Elise, just 6 months old) and me, even older.
Registered: February 23, 2016 Location: El Paso, TX Posts: 22988
Sat, Apr 28, 2018 @ 8:51 AM
Wonderful take on your "Cinco de Mayo" china inspired card - from the southwest theme to the serape look of your dp.
In El Paso we have whole neighborhoods of homes painted with this color combo - with some bright purple thrown in for good measure . . . .wonderful for a fiesta but not so much (in my opinion) for house colors! Rather glad my neighborhood is more traditional and sedate -lol
------------------------------ Linda aka Bubbles
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