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Showing posts with label Pollycraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pollycraft. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 August 2011

Light Blue and Cream Pollycraft Cherry Kisses Tea in the 20s

Here is the birthday card that I made for my aunt. She is only four years older than me so thought this image was appropriate. I think it's a really cute image and is one I won in a blog challenge.


The digi image, Cherry Kisses Tea in the 20s, from Pollycraft, was printed out and coloured with Copic Sketch markers:
  • Hat: E41, Y21, BG11
  • Flowers: BG11, B00
  • Leaves: YG95, G07
  • Hair: E33, E35, E37
  • Skin: E00, E21, E51, R02, R20
  • Dress: Y21, BG10, BG11, B00
  • Shoes: BG10, BG11, B00
  • Cup: Y21, E41, BG11, B00
For quite a lot of this image I used what is called the Transfer Blending technique whereby a darker colour chisel nib is held to the brush nib of a lighter colour, thereby transferring the ink. Whilst colouring, the two colours blend together. This was done on the flowers, leaves, shoes and the dress in particular. I discovered this technique in the Copic Coloring Guide book that I recently purchased from WHSmith Online.

The image was then cut out.


A scalloped petite oval was die cut, using a Nestabilities die, from light blue cardstock and distressed around the edges using Tim Holtz Antique Linen distress ink and a plain petite oval, also distressed, was matted on top. The image was then centrally matted using 3D foam pads.

A strip of the light blue and cream scroll paper from the Prima Botanical paper pad was matted onto a strip of the light blue card that has been punched with the XCut Lace Trim border punch and a length of cream crochet lace was wrapped around it.

This was then matted onto a panel of the light blue and cream roses paper from the same paper pad and matted onto the light blue cardstock. All panels were distressed with the Antique Linen ink.

Three cream Prima paper flowers from the Botanical Mix were added in the top right corner. A light blue Prima flower was added in the centre of the large flower and turquoise self-adhesive pearls from the Hobby House Sea Green set were added in the centres of the smaller flowers and a champagne pearl from the Kort & Godt Autumn set of pearls was added in the centre of the larger flower.


The sentiment, from the Papermania Clare Curd Sentiments stamp set, was stamped onto the cream card using Memento Rich Cocoa dye ink and matted onto the light blue cardstock and added in the bottom right corner of the card.


Here are the blog challenges I am entering this card into:
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Thursday, 28 October 2010

Pink, Brown and Orange Love Notes

I love this image and can't believe this is the first time I've used it!! Naughty me!! I've had it for a while now too!


The Love Notes image, from Pollycraft, was stamped using Versafine Onyx Black archival pigment ink and coloured with Copic sketch markers:
  • Hair: E13, E35, E39
  • Skin: E00, E21, E51, R20
  • Eyes: YG07, E40
  • Dress: YR02, RV06
  • Socks/Wings: YR02
  • Shoes: E35, E39, YR02
  • Flowers/Grass: YG07, G05, YR02, RV06
  • Sign: YR02, E11, E00
The sentiment was then added using the sentiment stamp from the same stamp set using Versafine Vintage Sepia archival pigment ink.

The image was die cut using an oval Nestabilities die and matted onto a big scalloped oval die cut from pink card. A panel of the pink, brown and orange multi-stripe paper, from the DCWV Glitter Mat Stack, was matted onto orange card and onto the card blank.

A strip of the pink, brown and orange retro squares paper, from the same paper pad, was also matted onto the orange card and adhered across the larger mat.

Pink and orange Sakura Stardust pens were then used to highlight the wings, hearts, flowers and sentiment. The Papermania Snow White gel pen was used to highlight her eyes, cheeks and detail on her dress.

The edge of the card blank was punched using the XCut scalloped border punch and coloured with the Copic markers. Pink faux gems were added in each of the scallops and in each of the hearts.

The inside of the card was also decorated with a strip of the multi-stripe paper adhered to a strip of the orange card. The edge of the orange card was punched with the scallop border punch and added on the inside of the card behind the scallop border.

Here are the challenges that I am entering this card into:
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