Happy New Year! This card was made for today's Ways To Use It Challenge: Ring in the New Year. Participants were to incorporate something SILVER into their design. I used silver BRADS and a silver butterfly!
This image is a full image! I CUT it apart! (Today my hands are killing me. There was NO WAY I could watercolor the "fawn" and stay in the lines....)So...I seperated the deer from the background to make water coloring easier.
I stamped the deer onto watercolor paper with Noir Black Palette Hybrid Ink. This ink is fast drying and WATERPROOF! Next, I colored in the body with Stampin' Up! markers. I used an aqua painter to blend the colors. I quick dried the image with a heat tool and added the dots onto the deer's back, turning it into a fawn! (I used an Inkssentials pen.) Then, I outlined them with a marker. I added the white under the neck, too.
The stream and bank were stamped onto a different piece of watercolor paper. I used SU! markers and an aqua painter to blend that area.
The sun and sky was down by sponging in the areas with daubers.
Registered: March 21, 2006 Location: sunny southern california Posts: 20098
Thu, Jan 01, 2009 @ 10:14 AM
WOW, amazing! That deer is so serene - lovely BG setting too, Faith! Hope your hands are feeling better already!
------------------------------ christine m.aka summer and weekend stalker DOT INK (My yadda yadda) Don't magnify your problem . . .Magnify your God
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Just beautiful! And oh so peaceful looking....thanks for sharing and all your inspiration.
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Registered: March 5, 2007 Location: Coatesville, Pennsylvania Posts: 44981
Thu, Jan 01, 2009 @ 12:40 PM
Wonderful card, Faith! I love it!
------------------------------ Lesley Proud Fan Club and RAK Member He is the GOD of the Impossible!!!! Kookzi the Rookzie Punchkateer It is by the grace of God that we take our next breath.
Registered: March 11, 2008 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 39766
Thu, Jan 01, 2009 @ 12:42 PM
Faith, this is like a still life photo of that deer in the stream! Way cool! Your coloring is amazing. I just love this scene here, it is so peaceful! Wonderful job, as always! TFS :0)
------------------------------ Cathy B aka: Mutnik ....or is it Nutmeg?! I get so confused!
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