First of all, I want to thank the amazing Color Challenge Team for allowing me to be a guest designer this month. I love how you support each other, and it has been a real joy to play with you. It has helped me make a card each week, and I hope I can keep it up.
As you can see, this week's colors work well with flowers (how delightful for me...hehe!). I pulled out two stamp sets that I've not used before. One is a new one, and another is one I've had for a while. Once again, I am in need of a card to encourage a dear couple who is going through health problems. I am using a new set of wonderful sentiments by Gina Marie Designs and stamped my flowers by The Cat's Pajamas to allow enough space for one of the sentiments. Actually, I love this sentiment because it's actually a portion of "Great Is Thy Faithfulness," a hymn my daddy used to sing. What a beautiful voice and such a loving heart he had.
Anyway, back to my card. I did a test run with the images using an acrylic block (who uses those anymore?). I used a technique for adding some "texture" before coloring the main images. I used a W1 Copic marker and lightly colored around all the flowers and leaves. Then I used some Colorless Blender with an old sock and smooshed it over a stencil. It actually worked fairly well, but it's lighter and more subtle than it appears in the photo. I colored the flowers and leaves, keeping them a bit loose and sketchy. It's neat how well Tranquil Tide works for leaves. Once all the coloring was done, I added the sentiment using my Mini MISTI tool. I added a few little dots at the ends of some of the leaves and flowers for interest, and I also used a corner rounder punch and adhered my colored panel to some Tranquil Tide card stock. The card seemed to need something else, so I added several sequins...and then it was done! Voila!
Oh, I did pass on dessert this week. It's hard to make a one-layer card when you use Copic markers and X-Press It.
That's it for me today, but thanks so much for taking a closer look. I hope you like it, and I especially hope that you'll join us this week for the Color Challenge!
Have a beautiful week! And hugs to all! xoxo
Date: Monday, April 23, 2018 GMT Views: 2439
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105271
Tue, Apr 24, 2018 @ 12:38 PM
Right into my favs, Cheryl.
------------------------------ Anne HarmonFS154, QFTD58, PROUD FAN CLUB MEMBER (photo of our Great Granddaughter Elise, just 6 months old) and me, even older.
Registered: January 20, 2016 Location: Freetown, Massachusetts Posts: 31442
Tue, Apr 24, 2018 @ 1:38 PM
I've so enjoyed your flowery creations on the color challenge sample team, Cheryl! This one did not disappoint! I was trying to figure out how you did that amazing background--thanks for the details!
Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 92600
Tue, Apr 24, 2018 @ 3:41 PM
EVERY card you do as a guest designer for this challenge is far and away a standout, Cheryl. Your coloring is ALWAYS impeccable and your card design, beautiful. This is gorgeous!
Registered: October 19, 2007 Location: Packer Country, WI Posts: 72110
Tue, Apr 24, 2018 @ 6:40 PM
Always enjoy your creations....for their pure beauty, inspiration, and design. Trying to work with copics, very difficult to control.....your shading and bg technique gives such depth. Love how you took the stamp and created the eye pleasing design. Thanks for always inspiring me to try harder. Hugs
Registered: November 7, 2005 Location: Sammamish, WA Posts: 17014
Wed, Apr 25, 2018 @ 9:48 PM
Look at all those gorgeous blooms! This is so beautifully stamped and colored, Cheryl. And yes.. its very difficult to do a one layer card when you use Copics! Well unless you don't care what the inside looks like! lol
Registered: September 17, 2007 Location: Illinois Posts: 6151
Thu, Apr 26, 2018 @ 3:03 PM
Oh my Cheryl, this is just stunning, I love how you did the background and your coloring is just beautiful, sweet little added touches you gave to it with your pen work!!