I was so pleased to see Kathy (aka Wattle) chosen as the featured stamper this week. She has a wonderful gallery and I have several of her wonderful creations tagged in my faves waiting to be CASEd... Chose this card to case.
As I knew I had no wattle images in my stash of stamps, I went searching for a line art image of wattle (National Floral Emblem for Australia) which I then coloured in digitally using a 'bristle brush' in my photo editing program - hey, it's almost like colouring by hand - I had the mouse in my hand the entire time. Made my own background paper (again, using my computer) by stamping a silhouette image of a wattle branch onto some textured digital paper that I recoloured to match the wattle image. Used an embossing tool to give some definition to the butterfly wings. Some pearls, some punching, a sentiment, etc, etc and here it is. Can you tell I'm longing for some warm weather here with the sentiment I chose!
Things I changed...the colour scheme, the image, the border and butterfly punches (I actually don't own the ones she used - must get shopping!), pearls instead of brads...hope it still bears some resemblance to the original!!!
Congrats Kathy!
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 GMT Views: 850
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