Thanks Emily for another challenging challenge! Way to stretch me! I really just stared at the three pieces of cardstock for a while...and then I started thinking they seemed tropical...or maybe I'm just wishing for tropical weather compared to the snow we have here. Anyway, I went with it.
I decided I needed to use my pretties, so I coloured several of the flowers with the corresponding markers. The Real Red turned out quite dark as did the Taken with Teal, but the Certainly Celery seemed quite close. I had seen a card in Cards magazine with a Thanksgiving type of wreath, and that was where I got the idea for this card. I coloured a circle from the blossoms chipboard set with Certainly Celery, then applied a liberal amount of stickles. I adhered the flowers with Crystal effects. I really wanted that hanging from the moon effect, but I have a green circle with sparkles...almost there LOL!
On another topic, I don't understand how my pic seems crystal clear and when I upload it it gets fuzzy. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I size it 300 x 500 pixels generally. Really bugs me.
TFL
Laura
Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2008 GMT Views: 697
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Tue, Jan 01, 2008 @ 1:23 AM
What a great layout - love how you kept the focus on the main panel...just precious! Great job on coloring the pretties, they came out amazing and the rhinestones in the middle is the perfect touch.
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Tue, Jan 01, 2008 @ 4:40 AM
Love the flowers and their placement on the circle.
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Tue, Jan 01, 2008 @ 4:55 AM
This is one fun card Laura! As for your photo, not sure what is happening. I do know that the upload program automatically resizes the photos, so that shouldn't be the issue. Your photo looks nice on my screen....
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Tue, Jan 01, 2008 @ 6:11 AM
It seems like I have to keep each side 400 or below and my overall size of my file 40K to keep from getting the fuzzies, but that's just my experience (nothing official); love the tropical feel of your card ... it just jumped out in the gallery ... very pretty.