This week's Teaparty is for our very own resident Teapotter, DonnaJeanne. DonnaJeanne is one of the loveliest ladies you will ever know!! I hope our cards bring some sunshine to DonnaJeanne and her husband.
Our challenge is to bring lots of colour and as a bonus a 3-D element (of the fly away variety) will ensure extra cookies......ok, I miss out on the cookies but I hope I made up for it with colour.
I recently purchased a couple of Lavinia digi stamps and I printed them on normal photocopy paper to store in my folder. I printed off a few extra by mistake so I picked up my pencils to see what colours I would use when I printed it on proper cardstock.
Drum roll....I never did print it onto proper cardstock; this house is just normal everyday photocopy paper. All the initial colouring was done with the Prismacolour pencils; they have a lovely soft waxy finish.
I then used my Spectrum Noir markers over the top of the pencils. To make the house look a bit weathered, I lightly rubbed my walnut stain foam blending tool over the top.
The background was from my stash, it was a strange pinky-purplish grey colour. I scrubbed on some brighter purple, green and orange distress inks to match the house, then added a few trees and stenciled on some white paint.
Out of the corner of my eye I spotted my "friendÂ’s dictionary page" background stamp. I inked it up with ground espresso distress ink, lightly sprayed the stamp with water, stamped it lightly onto a scrap of paper, then I did the secondary stamping straight onto the card. You can't really read it, but it does add an interesting layer.
I fussy cut the house and using a glue stick I adhered it to the card. I used a grey marker and a fine micron pen to outline the house and give a 3D feel. I drew some cobblestones and added a doodled border.
When this is completely dry I will add it to a white card base. I used clear Wink of Stella on some parts of the house, sorry it doesn't photograph well. I had a heap of fun making this, especially knowing it was going to DonnaJeanne. This is one of those cards that you have to make a conscious decision to walk away and stop adding stuff LOL.
Have a lovely week everyone and thank you for looking.
Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 GMT Views: 2746
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What a lovely fantasy world you created in this card. I admire how you used the copy paper! And I have heard of a lot of people doing pencil coloring over marker, but not so many that try it the other way around. TFS!
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Sat, Jul 16, 2016 @ 6:37 AM
Oh my goodness this is such a masterpiece Susie!! Absolutely LOVE your coloring on this and I can see why so people are commenting how much they love it!! You've really made a wonderful design and I'm sure DonnaJeanne will love it too!! TFS!!
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Wed, Jul 20, 2016 @ 8:30 AM
Wow, Susie, so much going on with all the extras added and can read words here and there. So many colors and hmmmmm maybe be a butterfly house for all my butterflies!!!! Sweet card and smiling---THANKS for sending.
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Mon, Jan 02, 2017 @ 7:09 PM
I think at some point in the six months since you originally posted this card I must have seen it. It looks very familiar, but I never did make a comment on it. Probably because I was dumbstruck and just sat and stared at it instead of commenting. I could just look for hours at all the details you have layered into this card. So glad Bev chose it as a yearly fav so I could get a good look at it tonight. Simply Marvelous!
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