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I saw a fun challenge on Instagram that said to find all the red books you own. I think I have a few more but here are most of them.
The top one by Paulo Coelho, I read a long time ago. The rest are to be read. I think I might pick up Harmony soon. It’s a Japanese scifi!
I don’t put my books by color on my shelf but these do look pretty together.
Happy reading!
Belinda
Hello and welcome to day 10 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge. I am hanging in there. Today I had to stop and start coloring to run errands and take care of some administrative work for my business. But I am happy to say I completed the card from the image I began coloring yesterday.
I finished coloring a second pair of the flowers and then cut them out as well as the leaves.
I then used my Memento pen to go around the fresh cut edges for a more finished look.
Inspired by Kathy, I pulled out my distress inks and added some more color. Using different color mediums on a project can really bring them to the next level. They softened any hard lines on the flowers.
I colored a third flower center so that I could have three levels of dimension on the final card. I also embossed some cardstock and diecut a stitched circle on my Cuttlebug. I also played around with cutting out several petals on for the top layer to make the flower look more dimensional and curled the petal edges so they would raise nicely.
I used my MISTI to stamp a new sentiment I just bought this week at Michael’s from Hero Arts. I layed out the circle like I wanted it and positioned my stamp right where I wanted it to go and then inked it up.
It came out great. I love this tool because it takes the nerves our of sentiment stamping for me. Nothing like ruining a pretty project with a messed up impression.
While I had the stamp on the MISTI, I inked up and stamped another sentiment so that I could make another card soon.
You didn’t think I used any of the leaves I fussy cut did you? Well I did. I placed one more on the right side with dots and my tweezers. I love the way it looks with this extra leaf.
I added Wink of Stella clear to the centers for a touch of shine. and you can see the dimension of this card from this shot.
My final card came out pretty cool. I definitely going to make some more.
Happy coloring friends. I have two appointments tomorrow so I may post late but I will see you tomorrow.
