Peggy gave us some wonderful colors which would work well for a masculine card:
Midnight Muse
Baked Brown Sugar
Cherry Cobbler
Neutrals of choice
Dessert: Coloring
This will be a birthday card for an avid, world-wide birder friend of mine. I like the birds on cards that I send to him and his wife to be as accurately colored as I can. I got out my “Guide to North American Birds” for this one. : ) I also depicted a pair of geese since they mate for life. The dessert of “coloring” worked perfectly for this card. The background was done with a brayer and some Copic “scribbles”.
TFL
Date: Monday, March 17, 2014 GMT Views: 20273
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Registered: November 7, 2004 Location: Gulf Breeze, FL Posts: 15142
Mon, Mar 17, 2014 @ 7:35 PM
Beautiful card! Love that you try to get the birds in their true coloring! My mom is an avid bird watcher and I am sure I have seen that book at her house!
------------------------------ Peggy SCS Color Challenge DT/Crazy4Challenges DT
Blog: Artfulljourney
Registered: June 9, 2006 Location: Wauconda, IL Posts: 55667
Mon, Mar 17, 2014 @ 7:46 PM
Sallie, your card is gorgeous!!! I love your geese; they are so realistically colored. Your brayering is beautiful. I love how it looks like there is light shining on your geese.
Registered: March 31, 2008 Location: Eastlake, OH Posts: 22598
Mon, Mar 17, 2014 @ 8:02 PM
This is amazing, Sallie! That brayered background, I would never have guessed that. WOW, no lines, no break in color- perfectly done. The coloring on the geese is SO realistic. I have this set and it is still sitting unused. Your card is such an inspiration to try. Copic scribbles? Only you could have pulled that one off!
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Registered: November 19, 2005 Location: Bethel Park, Pa Posts: 37265
Mon, Mar 17, 2014 @ 8:24 PM
this is a great masculine card Sallie-love the brayered bg-how thoughtful of you to select geese for the image that mate for life-your friends must have a tried and true marriage
------------------------------ Mary Marsh SCS Color Challenge DT Coordinator My Blog- The Charmed Life
Registered: December 4, 2009 Location: Southern Utah's Dixie Posts: 20577
Mon, Mar 17, 2014 @ 8:36 PM
Not only handsome, but gorgeous too, Sallie! This could be anywhere in America, but I'll say it's just down the road! Your birder friends will love this beautiful creation!
Registered: January 8, 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 40435
Tue, Mar 18, 2014 @ 12:31 AM
What can I say, Sallie - this is incredible!! I have never seen the geese in this stamp set look so real, as though they are walking off the card!! Beautiful brayering for the bg, too!!!
------------------------------ Sue
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