These “note” cards are for two challenges. The one on the left is for today’s IC232 challenge and the one on the right is for yesterday’s F4A12 challenge. For the IC challenge, I was inspired by the Noteables sets. I wish they had a bigger picture of it, but I liked the music and guitars in the pattern. For the F4A challenge, I made a similar card but only colored in the spotlight area. I hadn’t really done this technique before and it was fun.
All images and adhesives are Sparkle N Sprinkle. On both cards, the guitar was stamped and masked multiple times. With the masks still in place, I stamped the swirling music around the necks of the guitars. I stamped one extra guitar for each card. Everything was colored using Prismacolor pencils. I cut out the spotlight area using a Spellbinders Mega Oval, cut a slightly larger black mat and attached it back over the cut out area. Opposite corners were rounded and then edged w/ a black marker.
The black background was stamped w/ a music scrap image in black chalk ink and the spiral edge punch was used down the left sides. ItÂ’s hard to see the black on black here, but itÂ’s visible IRL. On the left one, I scribbled more Prismacolors across a strip of white and stamped the notes, then cut around them. On the right one, I used the pencils to create a narrow border behind the black layer. The greetings were stamped and the music notes added. Both cards are 4.25 x 5.5 (A2).
Thanks so much for looking! Close ups are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010 GMT Views: 1578
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Registered: August 20, 2007 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Posts: 11545
Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 10:00 PM
Wonderful!! Your artistic style shows through your amazing coloring here Julie!! Love the spotlighting technique, but both of these are fabulous and fun!!
Registered: April 6, 2010 Location: Union Grove, Wisconsin Posts: 1107
Sun, May 16, 2010 @ 10:20 PM
These ROCK!!! beautiful! and those music notes are so neat multi colored like that. The guitars are so pretty... can guitars be pretty? yes, yes, these are pretty...
Registered: December 19, 2006 Location: North Carolina Posts: 15571
Mon, May 17, 2010 @ 12:55 PM
What fabulous cards! I could not pick a favorite if I had to! Both are creative and colored perfectly!!! I am putting this into my favs...have several people this would be so appropriate for. TFS!!!!