I made this card for 2 challenges today. The first challenge is the Free For All Challenge. Dawn is our hostess and she has a wonderful challenge called, "Back to Square One." I love this and just had to play.
The 2nd challenge is for this week's Alphabet challenge. Ann is our hostess and she has chosen the letter H for this week. The H in this card is the hydrangea image.
I colored the image with colored pencils which is a really big deal because I am a copic marker girl and not a colored pencil girl. However, I do want to use colored pencils more so this was the project for it. I have a lot to learn using colored pencils because I much prefer the way Liz colored her image over the way I colored mine.
I cut the image into squares and mounted the individual squares onto black cardstock. Well, I mounted them crooked even though I laid them out perfectly (sigh). I had to think about this for a while, and I asked Liz about it too. Liz had a great suggestion to cut the mounted-on-black squares again into 4 larger squares and that helped a lot because I was ready to trash this. I Layered the card up and added Nuvo crystal gems for some fun sparkle on a dreary day.
Thank you Dawn and Ann for the great challenges and thanks for looking! ~Karen.
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Sat, May 23, 2020 @ 10:55 PM
Oh wow Karen this is exquisite and I love it. It’s also been fav’d. I love hydrangeas too. I can’t stop looking at it and looks so good made into different windows on the black. TFS. Happy day hugs
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Sun, May 24, 2020 @ 1:31 PM
Oh Karen, this is stunning! I think your colored pencil coloring is magnificent and I LOVE your window effect. I am so glad you persisted with it because it is amazing!
You did such a beautiful job of cutting these squares and mounting them. Mine would all be crooked! LOL. The color for this card makes you’re pencil colored Hydrangea gorgeous! Wow! Your whole card is stunning! I just think your pencil s as beautiful as your Copic coloring!
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Sat, May 30, 2020 @ 4:23 PM
Oh my goodness, this is just gorgeous. I had to peek through what I have missed.
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