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: 2440
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Fri, Apr 27, 2018 @ 12:05 AM
Hi there my sweet sis. I have been trying to comment on this all week. The little wheel goes round and round.....I think the craft goddesses were making sure I would be delayed and that way I would get to read all of the wonderful things written about you and your beautiful creation. Ahhhhh big happy sigh at seeing your stunning colouring and layout. Love you. Xx
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Oh, I 'm in love with your beautiful coloring of these flowers. Love your choice of colors, layout, and coloring skill. Such a beautiful card. Thanks for visiting my gallery and leaving a sweet comment, Cheryl
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Sun, Apr 29, 2018 @ 6:08 AM
So encouraging and gorgeous, Cheryl!!!!
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