This week is Artist Week and the whole DT are using images from Zoimar Lezama, I have chosen to use
Copia. The image was coloured with Polychromos and for the background I used a stencil and Pan Pastels. When I coloured the image initially I had no background so added a digital background by removing the white space from the image once I had taken a photo of it.
I just loved colouring all the folds on this image :)
For my card base I covered a white card with a shimmering slightly embossed paper and then added a dark green layer in the same type of paper. The green layer was mounted with foam tape. Next I added some lace and allowed it to hang over the right edge a bit and on top of that some pink organza ribbon. The ribbon does not really show unless you look hard but is the same ribbon I used for the bow and is a nice way to carry the colour.
What fun I had making my bow lol, I was trying to make something that resembled sections of a butterfly in keeping with the image. To hold my bow in place I used a hat pin to which I added pearls and a hand made bead along with a bit of old broken necklace. The pointy end of the hat pin was then passed through my bow from bottom to top and the end then bent over to make a hook. The hook end was then secured to the back of the image. Below you can see a close up of the hat pin and bow.
Onto my flowers. I used Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms and Foliage. Two of the roses were cut using the same paper as I used to back my card and the other three some patterned Papermania paper. The leaves were cut using the same dark green paper I had used earlier. To complete my flower spray I added a small net and wire butterfly and dotted some pearls around.
With the scraps of paper I had left over I decorated the inside of the card using Spellbinders Foliage again and Memory Box Levington Border
Thank you for stopping by and hope you are having a special day taday :)
Ingredients :-
- Image - Copia by Zoimar Lezama available from Sweet Pea Stamps in rubber and as a digi
- Colouring Medium - Polychromos and Pan Pastels
- Dies - Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms and Foliage, Memory Box Levington Border
- From my stash - pearls, butterfly, ribbon, lace, hat pin, beads
Child of God, wife of John, sister, aunt, Paraprofessional , Electrical Engineer, LabVIEW Programmer, and most of all lover of Crafts!
I am a Rubber Stamper, Scrapbooker, Cardmaker, and jewelry designer.
Just a regular person who seems to have a bit to much to say at times. I do enjoy keeping my hands busy (that generally keeps me out of mischief).
I am about to adventure into the life of Retirement and am looking forward to significantly more time in the studio, playing with my Grandkids and traveling now and then with the hubby. I have spent 41 years as an RN - mostly in Critical Care. I picked up painting and more formal art again when my kids went from High School into college. I have always done some form of art, even in the busy years of Career, Mom, Military wife - mostly in the crafty forms(sewing, rubber stamping, its a long list...) Now I mainly paint with encaustic wax. Encaustic is an ancient art form from Greece and Egypt that uses beeswax, natural tree resin and pigments. Encaustic is painted while melted in thin layers and every layer is fused to those below with heat( I mostly use a torch). True to my 'normal' self I have 3 or 4 other hobbies that keep me busy too , and you will be seeing(and have been) those here too.
