Saturday 19 February 2011

A little bird told me

I'm scheduling this post so fingers crossed, I'm either at a craft demo at the art shop in Kelly Bray, or I'm still in bed! For this card I inked up one of my old Penny Black stamps and coloured her in with Copics - her plaid dress is actually blue and brown .. .. and the pinks are certainly pinker .. .. still struggling with the camera but thanks to Paula for the tip about taking under the natural daylight lamp, I'll try that with the next card. I've kept the embellishments to a minimum on this card, it seemed to suit the image and the sketch layout from the Corrosive Challenge blog. The papers are digi designs from Cuddly Buddly and I've added Stardust Stickles to the edges of the papers and the image, plus I inked around the edge of the image with Spun Sugar Distress ink.

Copic colours I used:
skin tones - E000, 00, 21, 02
hair, shoes, centre of flowers - E50, 51, 53, 55
blues - B0000, 000, 00, 02
pinks - RV000, 00, 02, 11, 25
greens - YG91, 93
shadow - W1, 3

To embellish I've diecut a Marianne swirl, fixed a little pink rose and tied a bow with a snip of pale blue organza ribbon. The text I cut out from another Penny Black stamp, then to finish I've added little pearls made with my Waco cream pearl maker pen.

The Truly Scrumptious challenge is for pearls and swirls, while the ABC blog challenge is O for Old fashioned, just right for my old Penny Black stamp! Creative Inspirations are looking for plain and simple cards with no more than 2 patterned papers and less than 4 flowers - I can tick those boxes. That'll do for now, I'll do the links when I get back. Enjoy your weekend!

17 comments:

  1. Beautiful and such pretty colours!!

    Hope you have had a great time at the Craft Demo!!

    Love Chanelle xxx

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  2. Such a pretty card .LOve the flourishes
    Have a great day
    Lisa ;)

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  3. The swirl with the bow & rose is birlliant with the little flower on top of the umbrella & her hat, lovely bit of accenting. You've made me see this image in a very different light (oops -sorry about the pun - not intended). Hope you have a lovely mirning too.
    Paula (PEP)

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  4. A beautiful card Annie, adore the sweet country style PB image, gorgeous papers and love that swirl too :)
    Kelly.x

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  5. what a sweet image and a lovely card as always Annie, hope you have a lovely day
    hugs

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  6. great card! thanks for joining the corrosive challenge:)
    hugs

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  7. Hi Annie, what a gorgeous card. The image is really sweet and the colour combo is lovely.

    Kat xx

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  8. A beautiful card Annie , I love the colours and that sweet image

    Hugs
    Francesca

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  9. Oh this is fabulous Annie.
    luv
    Debby

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  10. Beautiful card! I love the colors and the image is super cute! Thank you for joining us this week over at ABC Challenge;0)

    Hugs x
    Cecelia B

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  11. Annie, this is darling and your colors are brilliant hun!! Love the added glitter to the edges!! :) HUGS

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  12. So wonderful card Annie,I love the image and the colours.
    So gorgeous papers.

    Hugs Riet.x

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  13. what a lovely card i adore that image, thanks for joining us this week at creative inspirations.
    Shell xx

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  14. Hi Annie, Such a wonderful card and lovely image. Love the colour combo and pretty papers. It was nice to see you Saturday if only for a short while. Hope you have suffered no ill effects from the day out.
    hugs
    Marion

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  15. Lovely card!! The stamp is just soo cute...

    Thanks for joining the ABC Challenge this week...

    Hugs

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  16. How adorable Annie, love that image and the cut little chickie on the sentiment is just gorgeous!
    hugs
    wynneth
    x

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  17. I love this image, so cute!! Great card! Thanks for joining us at Truly Scrumptious!

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