Winners announce plus step through this enchanting Garden Door into paradise! With lots of flowers and an inviting terrace, this garden door can meet a variety of needs. I chose to go for a sympathy card and I added wisteria and double stamped a few sections to create this scene. Read below for more details using these key products:
The Garden Door is an awesome stamp and with the little bit of foliage hanging down the arch, I knew right away that I wanted to add purple wisteria along the top. Wisteria has actually been on my to-do list of coloring so I’m glad I was able to fit it in. This stamp’s dimensions are squarish but I knew I could extend the image and create a full size image for the card. I knew the wisteria on the top would fill in that section so I stamped the door on the top but positioned down 1/3 the card. I then inked up the lower two corners, separately, and stamped just those parts again lower down. You can see what that looks like in the image below.Next was to extend the cobble stone path. This took a couple tries to make it look right because I had trouble deciding which way the path should lead. In the end, the direct path (pun intended) seems to be the best. After sketching it in with pencil, then I used C1 and C3 to draw in the lines. Later I added more color and depth with C5, YG91, BG23, E71 and E72. It’s an odd combination but worked. Lastly after the whole image was colored, I used my Sakura Gelly Roll White Pen to bring in some highlights and darkened the outside edge with Black Soot Ranger Distressed Inks (which was applied with the Crafting Ink Blending Brushes).
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The winner of this giveaway (the stamp and card) is … Katya Bess
Are you looking for a cute red-head hair combo? I have one that I use all the time and have it listed on a note with my markers because it’s so bizarre that I always forget it. It’s listed below but I have some tips in the description to. So you can read below for more details on how I created this card using these key products:
I love this stamps of Polka Dot Pals Eileen and it’s been fun to color her and have her sit on various things. For this project, I decided to pull out an older set and used the trunk and frog from Polka Dot Pals Harley. The trunk is large enough that characters can sit on or other animals too so it’s been very versatile for me to use.These images were stamped on Neenah Desert Storm 80# card stock which has been very pleasant to work with. The colors are darker when they go on so there is a slight learning curve. However, the Copic markers blend like butter and the same way on the white Hammermill Premium Color 100# card stock that I normally use. After coloring, the card was assembled with some layers cut with the Wonky Stitched Rectangles dies and popped up with foam tape.Now let’s get to that red hair I was talking about! I got this combo from a friend long ago, Annika, who’s original combo was YR14, E08, E19 and E59. The idea is to use dark browns and then start blending them to the light colors of orange. So on this card, I used the combo YR31, YR14, YR27, E07, E18. I added the YR31 to give it a yellow glow and brighten it up. Sometimes I like to go even darker and I’ll add E49. So there are some options there but make sure to grab colors from both the dark browns, light browns and oranges.
It’s a party! I couldn’t resist these animal characters to create a bright and cheery card on a slimline base. Sometimes the brighter the better and I purposefully chose bold colors for this one. Read below for more details on how I created this card using these key products:
I started this card by first stamping all the characters from the Picture Perfect Party Animals set from My Favorite Things. I then colored them using the same bold and bright colors throughout each panel. I made sure to color two with a yellow/orange background, two with yellow/green and the last two with a blue/purple background. This is the only time I used purple and I hope it gave the card a zany twist.After the images were colored, I selected the sets of three I wanted to use on each card. I knew I was going to slimline cards and three would fit perfectly on each one. You don’t have to have a slimline die to make these cards – just cute the base at 8.5″ x 3.5″ and fold in half. Then I then cut my layered cardstock and used paper from the Birthday Celebration Paper Pack to build the card.To finish off the card, I attached the colored images with foam tape and then added ribbon and gems as embellishments. That’s done! I’ll be showing the other card I made next week.
Looks like it’s time for a ice cold soda together and that’s what these two are doing. This is Polka Dot Pals Louisa and Polka Dot Pals Leland with some of their accessory stamps that I’ve used to create this scene. Read below for more details on how I created this card using these key products:
I’ve colored these two separately (see post HERE and HERE) but have been itching to get them together on the same card. Sue Hastead (see her post HERE) did a magnificent job with the same concept so I was looking for ways to make mine unique. To start with, I used the soda pop cans instead of the shake, the added hair accessories included with Polka Dot Pals Louisa, and then most noticeably, different colors. The concept I was going for was in a soda shop but at a bar that was facing the window. So I colored the background in blue and then tried to color the sentiment “sweetness” as a neon light. To do that part, I stamped the sentiment in Memento Dandelion yellow. Then I outlined the letter with YG17 and colored the inside part (the part that was stamped yellow) with YG23. Lastly, I gave it an outer glow with YG01 and highlighted the center of the letters with a white gel pen. I don’t think I nailed it but I got the general idea.The faces on these characters were colored through creative color placement based off of new add-on faces soon to come. Those will be symmetrical so for now you’ll have to ignore the imperfections on these. Really, don’t look! Ah, I think you just looked. Oh well. Hope you enjoyed this project and inspiration. 😀
The odd thing about this set was I thought those were mice. However, it wasn’t until after I colored the ears and started coloring the tails then did I realize they’re bunnies. Not mice! My eyes were deceiving me and I really wanted a mice band too. But I know how to fix that – through creative color placement – so you might soon be seeing another band marching down the path.
The uniforms on these mice, er um bunnies, are simple and I knew I wanted to get more color on them. So I took a while to Google drum band uniforms and came up with this pattern… down to their striped pants, white gloves and shoes. Red and blue seem like natural color choices for a band but if I have to color these again, I’d like to try something different. Do you have any color suggestions?
I used a cloud stencil and distressed inks to color the background and all the die cuts using some greens and blues. I used a lot of dies on this project too. I think the trees (even the ones I used for bushes) are retired dies from Lawn Fawn. From them, I also used the Peekaboo Backdrop Die and Everyday Sentiment Banners. The fence, I think, is from Magnolia Stamps and the hill is one from Stitched Border Trio Die.
Here’s another butterfly I made from the book lalylala’s Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies: A Crochet Story of Tiny Creatures and Big Dreams. This one has also been claimed (even before I finished it) by a different minion in the house. So I decided she could help me pick out the rest of the colors for the body and hat. I’ve already resorted to my third one being dibbed but it’s nice to know that the kids are enjoying them. That’s what makes them fun to make, after all. Plus they can interchange the hats and wings if they decide to mix and match.
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