Magical Enchantment

Hi everyone,

I always have such a hard time deciding which of the gorgeous stamps from Sweet Pea Stamps to play with and in the end I close my eyes and let my fingers choose, lol.

For my post today, I (err, my fingers) chose "Winter Watcher" from Plate #38 and colored her with Copics. Because I always color my images without choosing the paper, I had a hard time coming up with papers to go with the colored image. I really wanted match the papers with the cat's eye and finally decided to use the lavender flourish from DCWV's Old World Stack.
The black panel is dry embossed with the CB Textile Texture embossing folder. I found some copper pigment ink and rubbed this over the panel. I wanted to bring out a little of the yellow from the background and the bodice of her dress so I added the dried flower buds. I also added the die cut leaves and black metallic craft trim. Lastly I added the sentiment, also from Plate #38.

You know, I very rarely know what colors I'm going to color these wonderful images and lots of times will start an image only to think I've ruined the image. In this case, I over saturated the eye of the cat which caused the purple to bleed into the area under the eye. I used the light gray C02 marker to push the stray color back. Now it just looks like the fur around the eye is wet, right? Well, that's what I'm telling myself :-).

Thanks so much for stopping by. Definitely check out the store!!!! Make sure to check out the SALE section..... you'll be glad you did!