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Thursday, November 29, 2018

Girl With Balloons

It's the last day of the month and I am sharing this card I made for the Die Cut Divas November Challenge, thoughtfully sponsored by SheepSki Designs.  This month's theme is "anything goes" and you still have a bit of time to get your project in, but hurry!





Here is the card I created:



What I Used to Make my Card:
White Bristol Card
SheepSki Designs Birthday Balloons, #157
Spellbinder Nestabilities Curved Etched Rectangles, #S5-006
Various Alcohol Markers
Falling Star Background Die {Unbranded}
Baby Blue Card
Sakura Pigma Micron Black Marker in .005
Sakura Gelly Roll White Gel Pen in .05 
Small Purple Gem 

While this image was designed for a birthday card, I decided to make it an all occasion card as I don't have nearly enough "just because" cards.  As you may know, I am struggling to learn how to use alcohol ink markers successfully and I had printed this image out much smaller, thinking smaller would be easier to color.  Nope.  That was NOT the case.  It was much harder to color when it was smaller.  I did color it though, but I wasn't pleased with it at all, so I printed out the image on a bigger scale and found it to be much more relaxing to color.  I am actually proud of how I colored this digital stamp; I colored the entire thing which is something new for me.  I colored the background, the girl's skin, everything.  Being a good student, I looked up online how to properly color hair but, as usual, I didn't have the colors I needed.  I'm sure once I become more comfortable with using the markers, I will be able to improvise better with the colors I do have on hand.  I even attempted to color her eyes and give her that look that makes the images seem to actually be looking at you; again, I couldn't do that with the smaller image {I used a white Gelly Roll pen and I highly recommend buying the 3 pack which has the sizes .05, .08 and 10}. All in all, I think I did a pretty good job! 

Once the image was colored, I used the curved rectangle die to cut it out.  I found a piece of pale blue card and used an unbranded die I have of what looks like falling stars to cut it for the background.  I mounted the panel onto a white card base, and then the image onto that.  I noticed I went a bit outside the line around the ear, but I fixed that by giving her an earring made from a small flat-backed gem from my stash.  

I hope you like my colorful "anything goes" card for Die Cut Divas.  I'm so glad I am on this design team and I am getting much more comfortable with using digital images; considering about two years ago I wouldn't have touched them and really wasn't pleased that I couldn't use my Zig markers to color them.  I think I may have found a fix for that; I have an old spray can of fixative that fixes the image but you are still able to color it.  That's going to be my next experiment working with digis.  I hope you and yours had a marvelous holiday and thank you so much for stopping by. ~ Fondly, Christi

I am entering my Girl With Balloons card in the Following challenges:
CARDZTV - #76, Anything Goes
Colour Crazy - #48, Anything Goes
Cut it Up - #162, World Hello Day
CASology - #322, Girl
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge - #408, Anything Goes


Challenge Graphics

12 comments:

  1. Thanks for joining us on the CASology Challenge blog!

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  2. You knocked it out of the park! Gorgeous blues, the eyes do look "real", and I love the hair. She looks ready to ring the doorbell.

    Thanks for joining us for our Cut it Up for our World Hello Day challenge!

    Evelyn
    http://mylittlecraftblog.wordpress.com

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  3. Pretty card and bright colors. Your coloring is great since you're just learning. practice practice practice.. look at videos.. I find people I follow with videos and learn from them. I love your work and you should be proud of your work. It's wonderful. thanks for sharing over at Colour Crazy challenge.
    Billie A
    Colour Crazy Challenge
    Catch The Bug
    Creative With Stamps
    Aud Sentiments
    Always Fun Challenges
    Creations In Pink

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    1. Thank you for the great advice, Billie - I can use all the help I can get :)

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  4. Pretty card, great colors and coloring!

    Thank you for joining us at Cut it Up for our World Hello challenge.

    -Treva
    www.scrappint.blogspot.com

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  5. Great color scheme. I love that you "painted" her nails bright red. So fun. Thanks for joining us at Penny's this week. DT Kathy [myasperations.blogspot.com]

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  6. What a lovely card you have made here which fits perfectly the Colour Crazy Challenge this week. I know what you mean about printing the image smaller as I did this too and it was a nightmare. You just need to spend time practising colouring. Keep a tally of what colours you like to use that work well together. Thank you for entering and best wishes in the draw. Kym (Colour Crazy Challenge Design Team Member).

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    1. What a great idea, Kym! Thanks so much for your sweet comment and advice :)

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  7. What a gorgeous card!! Love the lovely girl image and the bright colors you used!! Thanks for joining us at Cut it Up challenge!
    Have a great day.
    Gerda

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