Friday 27 January 2012

You're a gem!

You may have seen my DT card yesterday on the Cute Card Thursday blog, so here it is for you with the details. As I'm now on two Thursday blog challenge teams I'm posting my CCT cards on Friday morning so that it's still Thursday in USA .. .. does that make sense? Anyway, moving on, I've had this LOTV stamp for months and just never got around to colouring the image in, even though I had managed to ink it up. As this week's challenge is for gems, I thought I'd like to make a girly card and this is what I came up with.

I've coloured my image with Copics: the usual skin tones plus chocolate brown shades E70, 71, 74 and 77; blues with B21 & 23, then for her dress I've used pale warm grey shades. For her hat I used E40, 41, 42 & 43 and the ground is a mix of those paler shades plus BG93 & 96. I've used pale cool greys and B91 for the shadow but as my cool grey C0 has run out I've had to use a blender pen as well - it was a bit of a fuzz up actually and the shadow is paler than I had first envisaged, but seams to work ok. The papers are more of the magazine freebies, I think Nitwits but they aren't marked, inked edges with Sahara Sand Versamagic chalk ink, matted with Close to Cocoa cardstock by Stampin' Up! then I finished off with a piece of lace, diecuts and gems. I made the flowers with Marianne dies LRO145 and pearl paper, the swirls are from LRO116 and the ivy spray is from LRO206.

The Critter Sketch challenge is to use 3 types of embellishments, mine are the lace, the gems and the diecuts. The Addicted to Stamps theme is for summer in winter, which I took to mean use cool winter colours with a summer image.

19 comments:

  1. oh wow this is pretty .. i love the colours in the image .. but those die cut leaves and flowers are my favourite
    Lisa x

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  2. Truly beautiful card Annie, so very pretty.
    HUGZ Fleur xXx

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  3. Realy lovely card Annie. Love it. Hugs and have a nice weekend, Ankie

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  4. Very nice and your coloring is fantastic!!
    Hugs nicolet

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  5. LOVELY sweet papers! Beautiful blooms and foliage! Perfect image! A delight! Hugs, Lesley

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  6. Aw this is beautiful Annie, I just adore this LOTV image and your flowers 'n' leaves are gorgeous! :)
    Kelly.x

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  7. A beautiful card Annie, and beautifully embellished!
    Clairexx

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  8. I love all the white flowers & detailing on this. With the softly inked edges it's a lovely combination of blues & browns with the white & I love the way the leaves & swirls pick out the pattern of the paper.
    Hope you have a good weekend.
    Paula (PEP)

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  9. Awesome card! Thanks for playing in the Critter Sketch Challenge.

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  10. Beautiful card Annie, gorgeous colourwork. love the vine swirls too. Joey x

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  11. Hi Annie,
    This is just Gorgeous!!! Love that adorable image you've used, the dp, the colour scheme is gorgeous. Love the layout and the embellishments. Coloured perfectly. Thanks for joining us at Critter Sketch and Good Luck. Hope to see you joining us again.
    Hugs Jacqui xxx

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  12. Hi Annie
    Your card is stunninga s usual hun - gorgeous colour combo.
    Thanks for your kind words left on my blog recently - I really appreciate it.
    Have a wonderful day.
    Debs xx

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  13. WOW! Your card is gorgeous! I love the colours, pretty flowers & your colouring....WOW! Thanks for playing along with us over at Critter Sketch & I hope you'll join us for our 100th Challenge & Blog Hop Celebration tomorrow.

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  14. This is so lovely and I love the flower, I have this die to but have hardly used it, perhaps time to get it out again.
    Hugs
    Sue xx

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  15. Absolutely beautiful. Just about my favourite colour combination ever!! Lynn ♥

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  16. This is adorable....are you not designing for cuddly buddly anymore??

    Ali x

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  17. This is soooo pretty! LOVE all the textures! :) Fabby card! :)

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  18. What a beautiful card, thanks for sharing with us at Addicted to Stamps 'Summer in Winter' challenge. Teresa xx

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  19. A gorgeous card!! lovely colours and design and I love the cute LOTV image!! Great colouring too!! Thanks for joining us at ATSC. hugs, Marlies

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