March was my month to choose the image for our Monthly Swap Group and I chose this cute little pair riding a bike, because it's spring and I'm in the mood for bike riding! Today's sketch was perfect for the image and what a great sketch it is! I never ever would have thought to make the sky and land striped on my own. And I also wouldn't have put that extra strip of green at the bottom, but I love the look of both. I did move my sentiment and this is the first time that I've ever used my ScanNCut to cut out a sentiment for me. I just took a pencil and drew around the words where I wanted it to cut. I like this look and I think I'll do it more often. I felt like these buddies needed some texture behind them, but I wasn't feeling any of my EFs today. Good thing I saved this corrugated cardboard from my last shipment of PTI paper. Never throw anything away.
Registered: January 20, 2010 Location: Brampton, Ontario Posts: 26128
Wed, Mar 27, 2019 @ 5:38 AM
Love the way you built up your background scene with the strips! That image is very cute and so wonderfully coloured! The way you cut the sentiment balances your fluffy cloud perfectly!
Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105158
Wed, Mar 27, 2019 @ 6:24 AM
That really is a cute image. Love your coloring and the layers of sky and ground as you did them! Fab bg with the corr. cardboard. Favd, my friend!
------------------------------ Anne HarmonFS154, QFTD58, PROUD FAN CLUB MEMBER (photo of our Great Granddaughter Elise, just 6 months old) and me, even older.
Registered: February 27, 2007 Location: LaCrosse, Wisconsin Posts: 39459
Wed, Mar 27, 2019 @ 6:41 AM
awww, he's adorable and perfect on that background.....how clever of you to use those stripes that way. Of course you thought of it yourself! And I think the corrugated piece makes the whole thing.
------------------------------ Jean Bean the Dancing Queen "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere." -John Coltrane
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28907
Wed, Mar 27, 2019 @ 7:08 AM
This is so sweet!!! I love your scenery, and how it matches up to the sketch -- such a cute fox riding his bike!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6