Hi! This card was made for today's Color Combination Challenge: Orchid Opulence, Pumpkin Pie and Certainly Celery.
Well, I can tell you, there is a GARBAGE CAN full of Pumpkin Pie/Certainly Celery/Orchid Opulence mishaps sitting in my office....This card was a trial for me. I had a light and airly lily, a cute hippo, butterflies in various patterns and countless flowers just heaped into the trash pile in frustration!LOL!
(Okay, so I'm having a very stressful morning!LOL)
So, please forgive me the excessive Basic Black...Neutrals are allowed, and the black really saved this card, trust me!
The focal images were embossed in black. I used Stampin' Up! markers in Pumpkin Pie, Orchid Opulence and Certainly Celery to color the flowers. To get a darker edge, I just went over the areas several times with the same marker.
The center of the large flower is a Jumbo eyelet, I colored it with a Sharpie and then added dots with the Signo Pen. (I did the same thing to the HodgePodge hardware!)
Registered: October 29, 2006 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 4100
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 @ 7:05 AM
Great advice on the sharpie and your card is beautiful!
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Tue, Feb 19, 2008 @ 7:15 AM
This is absolutely beautiful! Wonderful!
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Registered: September 7, 2006 Location: Northern Nevada Posts: 33121
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 @ 7:23 AM
I'm ALWAYS so impressed by your cards!!! You put so much time into the extra details, especially the doodling!!! There's so many layers here, and EVERY piece has doodling on it!!! Another of your cards goes into my fav's!!!
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Registered: October 5, 2005 Location: Tina and Lena Posts: 11872
Tue, Feb 19, 2008 @ 7:26 AM
Wowza! I loooove how you worked this color challange. The black really makes the other colors stand out. You always do such excellent work, I enjoy looking through your gallery. Thanks for that!