Hello Everyone! It’s day 3 of the coloring challenge. Today it is pretty gray outside with rain fast approaching. Pretty much arriving in time for pick up, I’m sure. So it’s perfect for tea, music and coloring.
I used another Saturated Canary digi for today’s card. As I mentioned in reply to a comment yesterday, some days I struggle with sentiments. I thought I wanted to use the ‘Fight Like a Girl’ sentiment commonly used on Breast Cancer cards and could not locate my stamp. So instead of eating up time in the search, I decided to color then worry about that.
When I saw this image I thought of warrior, strength and then I remembered I have this great embossing folder of gears that made me think of steampunk and thought it might compliment this image quite nice. I also used paper from Basic Grey’s Highline line. I am sad to say this company has gone out of business recently and they are one of my favorites. I liked the paper that looked like fire in this line so that is the one I chose for this card.
I colored her up with my Copics with muted colors to practice creating the metallic look. But in the future I would like to try something vibrant and funky. This is the year of experimenting and getting out of my comfort zone so I will share when I give it a try.
I love this sentiments stamp set from My Favorite Things and decided I could use this on my card.
I used my MISTI tool to align the words where I wanted them. I ended up deciding to overlap some of the words across the image so I inked it and stamped a few times for a dark impression. Normally I wouldn’t do this but I wanted to see how it would look. I like the overlap on the ‘Amazing’ but not as much on the ‘are’.
I cut down the image and matted it on the Basic Grey paper and attached it the embossed cardstock. I love how I can’t help touch the gears when I hold this card.
This angle you can see the gears better. One thing I will do next time is wait longer after I color the light blue on the bottom of the card because it caused the ‘z’ to blur a little. (yup, self-critic can’t help herself!).
Happy coloring and I will see you tomorrow!
Belinda
I had printed up this Saturated Canary digi a long time ago and only colored one so this one was begging my attention.
I usually color skin and hair but first but for some reason I jumped from skin to clothes before coloring in her hair. I have been playing around with colors lately for my brown skinned beauties and decided not to go with the black or dark brown that is predominantly used and went straight to a camel color brown for fun. Since we all know I love books, I thought I would find a book sentiment to create a card with this image. I found the one I used on Pinterest.
I used my Silhouette to design a fun sentiment to add to the card once I finished coloring. I matched the color of the font to her dress and because the sentiment used the word ‘dream’ I decided a cloud shape would be the perfect shape for a print and cut on the Silhouette. I also wanted to shake it up a bit and oriented the cloud 90 degrees counter clockwise.
I couldn’t find my matching distress ink pad to edge the clouds so I used my Copics to create the effect.
I used this lovely paper from Crate paper and enamel dots from My Mind’s Eye to create the dream bubbles.
I’m pleased with the final card but I need your help. What color should I make her earrings? Gold or Silver and in the little box on the cover I want to right the word ‘Read’. What do you think?
