Sweet Pea Stamps: Untouchable

Sunday, March 8, 2015

Untouchable - Jane's view

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase and image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to work with the beautiful image 'Untouchable ' by Linda Biggs which is available from the Sweet Pea Store in both rubber and digi.

I am trying something a little different this time, printing on dark paper and colouring with my Faber-Castell - Polychromos colour pencils. I printed the image four times just so I had a few spare copies to practice with lol. Unfortunately the paper I have used which is a green/gold metallic type is not loving my camera at this point but I am sure you get the idea.

Next I coloured the image. I do love the vibrance of these pencils but have to admit they did not like my paper very much and blending was pretty hard. Maybe I just need to practice some more to get the hang on it.

I plan on a very straightforward card this time, concentrating on the image and then just the single colour of the paper. Once the image was coloured I then cut it with a Spellbinder Oval die. Next I coloured some lace with my Promarkers to match up with the colour scheme,

I then embossed and die cut another sheet of the green gold paper for the background of the card and finished off die cutting a flower with the same paper. The die I used is a Marianne Craftables Flower. I finished of with Olive stickles on the flower and around the edge of the card.

For the inside I used more of the green/gold paper and added a soft mottled green paper for the writing area. This was then embossed using the same embossing folder as for the front of the card.