I hope everyone had a great weekend! It's been a little busy around here, so I'm combining today's FS and yesterday's IC challenges. Michele has such a great gallery! I finally chose Abundant Mother's Day Blessings for my case. Since her card was a sketch, I changed it by leaving off the vertical band and replacing the horizontal band w/ narrow ribbon. I changed the colors and theme and moved the sentiment to a label. I kept the flower motif and the rest of the layout.
For the IC, I chose Little Red Flower Pendant.
Poinsettias are one of my favorite plants so I used this great poinsettia image as a background and also as the main image. For the bg, I stamped it repeatedly, masking where needed, using the red ink. For the main image, I stamped it in black, painted it w/ water colors and a water brush, then cut it out. I used some of the red paint to add a splatter effect across the bg and a little on the main flower. A few accents were added w/ a gold gel pen.
I attached the main flower to a white piece cut w/ a Spellbinders circle Nestie, then attached this to a scalloped red circle. The greeting was stamped and the lower edge cut w/ scallop scissors. A red velvet ribbon was added and everything was attached to a red linen layer (edged w/ a black marker), then a white 5.5 x 4.25 (A2) card.
Thanks so much for looking! My blog:The Write Stuff. Sorry! I had to delete a bunch of really old posts from my blog & this is one of them.
Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009 GMT Views: 1045
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Accessories: Peerless water colors, water brush, ribbon, gold gel pen, black marker, Spellbinders circle set, Quickutz scallop circle set, scallop scissors
Registered: January 29, 2006 Location: Mount Forest,Ontario Canada Posts: 11594
Mon, Dec 07, 2009 @ 7:10 AM
Julie, this is absolutely GORGEOUS. I LOVE the amazing color on your flower and how you've used it as your bg too. AND, would you look at that beautiful detailed cutting--WOW!! Thanks for picking out a card and playing along and giving me more ideas and inspiration!
------------------------------ Michele
My God shall supply all your need…Philippians 4:19
Registered: March 24, 2006 Location: Deep in the Heart of TEXAS Posts: 15980
Mon, Dec 07, 2009 @ 1:53 PM
Beautiful poinsettia!! Lovely card!! The MM Sketch Challenge misses you, we would love to have you play with us again.
------------------------------ Phyllis Young at heart, slightly older in other parts. We really never grow up, we just learn how to act in public!! What if you woke up today with only what you had thanked God for yesterday??