Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Ali's Inspiration

For my creation this week I am once again playing with a gorgeous Ching-Chou Kuik image. I just love her artwork... it was seeing one of her stamps used on a card somewhere in blogland that lead me to find Sweet Pea Stamps and to fall in love with their awesome range of gorgeous stamps! :)
This one is called Butterfly Blue and despite being tempted at first to colour her in bright colours, I eventually opted to colour her with more muted wintery colours... in fact, I dug out my limited edition Winter set of Promarkers for this one:
The papers are (yet again) ones that came free with a craft magazine and I cut some delicate embellishments on my Cameo... I also liked the idea of the embellishments overhanging the edge of the card so I trimmed down the front section of the card and added more of the paper on the exposed back section of the card:
I once again used a Flexmarker pen for a pale colour wash in the background of the image:
And I also accented her jewellery and the beading in her hair, using Stickles and Perlen Pens.
Ali xx

12 comments:

  1. Awesome delicate touches Ali. I really like how they overhang the edges of your work. Super-great coloring too!
    Connie

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  2. Stunning, stunning, love your colour choices and papers actually everything about it. Fabulous, fabulous card.
    Best wishes, Sharon

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  3. Wow Ali, this is gorgeous. You did a beautiful job coloring this image in. Love her face.

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  4. Love the sparkles in her hair!! I was talking with someone about overhanging embellies. LOVE the solution you have.

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  5. She looks so beautiful in Pink. Ali you ROCK Girl. Gorgeous!!!
    Hugs Nat

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  6. Wow Ali, looove this card!! Gorgeous coloring and how you made the card on the edge ;) Fantastic how you made the glittering in the image! Those embelllies are gorgeous, too!

    Hugs, Randi

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  7. Wow!!! Amazing coloring! Cool with the White parts and the color scheeme. :)

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  8. Absolutely stunning card! I love the highlights, especially on the hair - it really accents the image.

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  9. Wonderful card! Love the colors you have used and the papers makes it look a bit vintage!! Stunning!!

    Hugs Gry:-)

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  10. Lovely Ali. That stamp is gorgeous and your coloring is amazing.

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  11. What an elegant lady, Ali! Love the colour combo you used and the colouring is so beautiful. Red is always so elegant, and so is your card with perfect matching embellishments.
    Hugs, Karina

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  12. gorgeous Ali, I really love the way you highlighted the images in certain spots with the white

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