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
