Although this has a fun, whimsical look, it nearly gave me a stroke to make. I have been taking little journies out of my comfort zone lately. However, for this card I felt like I had wandered down a deserted, dark alley at midnight. I love Karen Barber's cards with their deep, rich, elegant colors...as opposed to my "explosion in the neon paint factory" approach. I used her challenge colirs of cherry cooler, blue sky, and old olive. It took most of the week to even find an image that I could do without the entire co,owing box of colors. I used black, white and tan for neutrals. Then I sat there totally frozen, almost in a panic. My image was very small, and I did not know what to do with it. I fought the urge to just throw it out and give up. It was the F4A challenge to use swirls that made me choose this rather too small image...those weird green plant -
Ike things made me think of swirls. When I saw the MIX challenge to do a faux stained glass, I decided to sponge the bg, splatter with water, and draw lines. As if the colors had not challenged me enough....this is what nearly caused the stroke. Don't be fooled, it is much easier to draw "lines with a purpose" than to make a pattern of random lines. It looked awful. I added some distress ink marker dots and some white gel pen highlights and decided it was done. I think I am going to go throw every color of ink and paint I own onto some card stock to restore my mental state. TFL, Francie
Date: Saturday, September 17, 2016 GMT Views: 1673
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