These “note” cards are for two challenges. The one on the left is for today’s IC232 challenge and the one on the right is for yesterday’s F4A12 challenge. For the IC challenge, I was inspired by the Noteables sets. I wish they had a bigger picture of it, but I liked the music and guitars in the pattern. For the F4A challenge, I made a similar card but only colored in the spotlight area. I hadn’t really done this technique before and it was fun.
All images and adhesives are Sparkle N Sprinkle. On both cards, the guitar was stamped and masked multiple times. With the masks still in place, I stamped the swirling music around the necks of the guitars. I stamped one extra guitar for each card. Everything was colored using Prismacolor pencils. I cut out the spotlight area using a Spellbinders Mega Oval, cut a slightly larger black mat and attached it back over the cut out area. Opposite corners were rounded and then edged w/ a black marker.
The black background was stamped w/ a music scrap image in black chalk ink and the spiral edge punch was used down the left sides. ItÂ’s hard to see the black on black here, but itÂ’s visible IRL. On the left one, I scribbled more Prismacolors across a strip of white and stamped the notes, then cut around them. On the right one, I used the pencils to create a narrow border behind the black layer. The greetings were stamped and the music notes added. Both cards are 4.25 x 5.5 (A2).
Thanks so much for looking! Close ups are on my blog: The Write Stuff
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 140407
Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 1:53 PM
Oh - cool! DH plays guitar - when I have spare cash I'll check out that link, even though the one he mostly plays is an f-hole.
I really like both of these, with maybe a marginal preference for the spotlighted one. But I like the notes border on the lefthand one.
I thought it was a shame we couldn't get bigger pictures too - the wine one I'd have liked to see bigger.
Registered: June 10, 2007 Location: BC Posts: 44871
Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 1:59 PM
Ohh fabulous colouring and oh what an image!! Great spotlighting too!! Love it -and so would my 25 year old son - the guitar NUT!!!! Really lovely cards!!!
Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 97767
Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 2:29 PM
WOW, Julie, your cards are fantastic....and SO well done! Love the muliple colors of the guitars....and with a hint of "cross-coloring" going on. Super!!
Registered: April 23, 2005 Location: Calgary, Canada Posts: 8246
Sat, May 15, 2010 @ 3:43 PM
A couple of real beauties. Great colouring on the guitars and music and LOVE your spotlight. Excellent job on both challenges Julie. A fav of mine for sure.
------------------------------ Jill "The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
Really lovely cards!!!
