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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Celebrate

I am loving kraft cardstock at the moment! I stumbled across a technique of colouring on kraft cardstock with colouring pencils so I thought I would give this technique a go. There were 2 challenge blogs that I regularly participate in that had the same challenge so I thought I would use the sketch from Card Patterns #116 and also incorporate lace and pearls from both Southern Girls blog and Birthday Sundaes blog.



and a close up of the colouring in!


I just used normal crayola pencils to colour in the image from Penny Blacks 'for you' stamps. Colouring in using pencils is a little different to copics and blending pens. I found it easier to use several shades of one colour to get the 'gradual' effect, for example, the petals I used blue for the entire petal and then a darker blue for the base of each petal to darken the area, same with the leaf. I like the effect of the pencils on kraft colour cardstock.

I have also used paper from my fav range at the moment and that is MME Stella and Rose - Gertie papers. The lace part of the card is a doily from Paper Inlings 'colour me doilys' where I inked it with versa color 'old rose'. the pearls are Kaisercraft champagne pearl strips.

This is a slightly different style of card that I normally do and I definitely hardly use lace but I love a challenge and I was excited about doing this card.

6 comments:

  1. Wow I love this card its gorgeous.
    www.shelleysland.blogspot.com

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  2. Love your card. The colored lace and the way it opens are wonderful. TFS
    Cindy http://cardcrazeeme53.blogspot.com/

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  3. This is so pretty! I love how the card opens, neat! Thanks for playing along with my Birthday Sundaes challenge!

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  4. Beautiful details, Janette. I'm glad you got to play with Card Patterns this week.

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  5. Beautiful card. You did a great job with the coloring... great take on the challenges.
    Thanks for sharing this with us at Birthday Sundaes!
    Vivi

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  6. This is adorable! Well done on your colouring, its not an easy technique, especially with ordinary pencils.
    Thanks for playing at Southern Girls! Viv x

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