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: 2415
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Registered: May 18, 2008 Location: Virginia Posts: 24623
Mon, Apr 30, 2018 @ 6:37 AM
Cheryl, I LOVE your card! The array of beautifully colored flowers fits perfectly with the inspirational sentiment. Your extra details really make a difference in bringing this together. Your cards are all inspirational in and of themselves as they always make me feel good - every one of them!!! Congrats on being a guest designer.
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Registered: January 16, 2018 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 168
Tue, May 01, 2018 @ 4:45 PM
Acrylic blocks are a thing of the past? Um, then I might be out dated in that department! LOL I love this scatter technique and really should give it a try sometime. That would mean I'd have to color the image more than once so that's what's keeping me form it. However, I always love how it turns out and yours is no exception. It's gorgeous!
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Registered: June 18, 2016 Location: South central Pennsylvania Posts: 2197
Thu, May 03, 2018 @ 3:27 PM
I love it Cheryl! I too have a stamp with that sentiment that is great for encouragement cards. Btw, I still use acrylic blocks, but I may soon buy a stamping tool since Alana now works at Hobby Lobby, and gets a discount! Haha
Registered: May 31, 2009 Location: East Tennessee enjoying the mountain views Posts: 32997
Sun, May 06, 2018 @ 2:34 AM
Gorgeous card Cheryl, such a great technique with the stencil and colorless blender. Love how you used the flowers to fill the background. Hugs from TN