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.
Belinda
But I think I will try a pink combo later.
This is as far as I got before I had to pick up the boys from school. My plan was to complete this but Apollo was sick in school so now I am going to cut this short and put on my nurse’s hat for the rest of the day. I will try to finish it tomorrow although I think my “nursing’ duties will extend into tomorrow.
When I saw this coloring book at Marshalls I just knew it had to be mine and the price of $4.99 made my wallet happy. As a tea lover, I was excited to get a chance to color my own tea cups.
The book actually has a variety of vintage images of objects, buildings and flowers. So I don’t think this one will bore me. I started off coloring with of the color pencils from The Board Dudes but I didn’t like it at all. So I ended up using some old Distress makers and American Craft’s Stamp makers.
The paper in this book is really thick so I was pleased to see no bleeding through. So next time, I might try my Copics. Which will give me much more color options.
Some of the old markers had pretty used tips so staying in the lines wasn’t always very easy. I am so used to the blending and shading I can do with Copics so this was a challenge to use these markers. But I do like the end result and like the idea of completing the whole page since it is a relatively small book.
