This card is what came out when I started intending to follow yesterday's Inspiration Challenge. I wanted to work with some black florals behind a more ore less monochromatic background, but I just can't keep my hands off from those sponged and brayered backgrounds and my beloved white highlights against the black image, LOL! And the florals turned over to a tree, and I can't find a bird on the Inspiration Candles, but it ABSOLUTELY wanted to sit on that beautiful tree, so I couldn't resist to give it a place!
The white highlights are this time not done with Teykol but with a white jelly pen. The background is sponged with different shades of blue and green Adirondack inks using a blending tool. The bird has some silver sparkle on it, as well as the dots on the tag - it doesn't show well on the photo.
Well - not too much similarities with the Challenge Candels, but hey, I have been inspired by the challenge, so perhaps this card can still be accepted for the Inspiration Challenge?!?
Date: Sunday, May 18, 2008 GMT Views: 1514
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Stamps: Hero Arts (Tree), StampinUp (Terrific Tags), Inkadinkado (Bird)
Paper: white and blue cardstock
Ink: Ranger Adirondack inks in different shades of blue and green, Colorbox fluid chalks in different shades of blue and green, StazOn Jet Black
Accessories: white gelly pen, Tag puncher (SU), Crop-A-Dile, blue and green metallic brads, silver stickles, Sakura sparkling Gelly Roll, green and blue sheer ribbon, dimensionals, black Tombow marker
Techniques: sponging, brayering, white highlights
Difficulty (1-Easy 5-Advanced): 3 (not difficult, but time-consuming with the white highlights on all the leaves)
Registered: June 9, 2006 Location: Wauconda, IL Posts: 55667
Sun, May 18, 2008 @ 6:52 PM
What a beautiful card Christiane!!! I love the blue and green together. I am so in love with nature, so I love this card. The tree is great and the wonderful bird perched inside. Those are some of the core things in life: the blue sky, the green grass and many living things, the tree growing tall and the bird flying amongst it all. Beautiful!!
Oh wow, you rocked the brayering and sponging! This is absolutely stunning! The outlining of the image with white takes the image to a whole new level. What a beautiful card so rich with details.
Registered: June 10, 2007 Location: BC Posts: 44872
Fri, May 30, 2008 @ 5:59 AM
Wow!! That is gorgeous!! Love the beautiful brayering.. and oh my, but you are causing me to want to purchase that hero arts tree!! Absoloutely stunning - beautiful colours!! Lovely work!!!