Mary is our hostess this week, and she has given us a beautiful color combination: Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi and Basic Gray. The dessert option is either to make a summer or floral card, or to use this color combo for a Christmas card. My other card for this challenge has flowers, and one serving of dessert is plenty! ☺
Now, I must confess that this card is almost an exact copy of a wonderful card made by Barbara Anders. I fell in love with her card, and she was so helpful to me in learning how to use the plaid background builder. I really cannot thank her enough. Barbara, I hope you take this CASE as the ultimate compliment!
So it's a CASE. Things I changed: different colors, different sentiment, didn't round the bottom corners (because I forgot!), different DS paper, slightly different banner shape (because I don't have the dies she used).
I'd like to share a trick I learned in my Copic Certification class. If you are using Copics to color, and you'd like to put a pattern on your image (for example, polka dots on a dress or woodgrain texture on a tree trunk), you color only that portion first, and nothing else on the image. Then you mist your rubber stamp with "0" ink refill, and stamp on the colored image. The misted stamp actually pushes ink away from the colored area, leaving the image of the stamp lighter. Then you can color in all the rest of the image. The portion of the misted stamp that hits the uncolored part of the card evaporates, and does not affect later coloring. You can see this effect on my little girl's dress.
This card is for our daughter and son-in-law's 23rd anniversary.
Thanks for stopping by, and please join in our Color Challenge this week!
Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 92546
Tue, Sep 02, 2014 @ 11:01 AM
Darling card with your PI girl. Thanks for passing on the tip about stamping with Colorless 0 to remove color in a pattern. Your stamped plaid is lovely in today's colors.
Registered: August 7, 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 28113
Tue, Sep 02, 2014 @ 11:27 AM
Aw this is just so sweet!!! Love the ef!
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Registered: March 31, 2008 Location: Eastlake, OH Posts: 22598
Tue, Sep 02, 2014 @ 4:43 PM
This is wonderful, Barbara and thank you for the terrific copic tip! Your coloring is outstanding and I just love happy papers and layout! What a beautiful job you did on the brick with the soft color around your image! Beautiful card!