The Card Concept challenge #191

It's the second challenge of the month with The Card Concept so we have two mood boards for you to draw inspiration from, named Signs of Spring and Butterfly Blues.

  

My inspiration came from the flower and butterfly in option b and colours from both palettes (namely navy, yellow and turquoise).

I began by ink blending my background beginning with salvaged patina, ensuring it was lighter towards the middle. Then I placed my first moon mask and added chipped sapphire blending followed by night of navy. With the moon mask still in place, I added a little extra ink around the outside then blended on the second layer of the mask. After stamping the main images (fairy, flowers and butterfly) I used a wet waterbrush to remove some of the oxide ink from inside petals and wings, then coloured them using Copic markers. The next step was the foliage at the bottom which used first, second and third generation stamping to create depth. Lastly I added hints of white gel pen and some shimmer to all the wings.

Materials used:

• Lavinia stamps - willow, slender mushrooms mini, fairy bugs, Mae
• card - basic white, Bermuda bay
• Copics - Y02, Y11, BG11, BG32
• distress oxide inks - black soot, salvaged patina, chipped sapphire
• other - night of navy ink (SU), clear embossing powder, heat tool, MISTI, waterbrush, moon mask (Tim Holtz), blending brushes, craft foam, stitched rectangle die (Paper Rose), Big Shot, white gel pen, clear Wink of Stella, distress micro glaze

Do check out how the challenge graphics inspired my fellow team mates by heading over to The Card Concept blog, and thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry 

Color Hues #37 - Guest Designer

Hi all. As my card was lucky enough to be picked for Color Hues challenge #35, I get to be Guest Designer for their new challenge.

 The colour combo for challenge #37 is

For my card I kept it very simple, construction-wise. All the work is in the smooshed background and watercolouring of the butterfly. And speaking of, how gorgeous is this butterfly in yellows? I'm lovin' it!

I used SU's coastal cabana for my pale teal. Originally I tried pool party but it came out too green, so I switched. The base layer is quite watered down to make it paler, then the deeper shades are with no water added. I tossed some (neutral) tea dye distress ink in there too for a bit of variety and to tie in with the card base. Little splats of yellow ink over the background give a connection to the butterfly. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Specimen, Entomology (both Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous)
• card - crumb cake, watercolour
• inks - coastal cabana (SU); tea dye, squeezed lemonade, mustard seed (all TH distress)
• other - stitched rectangle die, MISTI, craft foam, Dimensionals, aquapainter, water spritzer, heat tool, Idea-ology Label Stickers (TH), black embossing powder, black marker, Big Shot

There are plenty of gorgeous samples to look at from the Color Hues design team so be sure to follow the link to the Color Hues blog to view them. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Take Risks

If there is an age where you no longer have fun getting inky fingers, then I haven't yet reached it, lol. Today's card was a veritable feast of colour all over my hands, as you can see:

But it was worth it, I think. This card is for the Just Add Ink sketch challenge this week. 

It had me rather intrigued for a while, then I decided to see how it would look in a mixed media format and, well, here's the result.

This poor butterfly, tattered and torn, is still out there taking risks for the duration of its short life - kind of a metaphor for our own lives, don't you think?

Materials used:

• stamps - Attic Treasures, Remnants (Tim Holtz)
• card - crumb cake, early espresso, watercolour
• distress oxide inks - peacock feathers, evergreen bough, vintage photo, mustard seed, kitsch flamingo
• other - vintage photo, antique linen and walnut stain distress crayons (TH), Tattered Butterfly Bigz die (TH), Big Shot, blending brushes, water spritzer, heat tool, hexagon die, word chips (TH), fossilized amber distress archival ink, clear rock candy distress crackle paint (TH), sponge dauber, Dimensionals, distressing tool

Thanks for dropping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Edited to add: I'm thrilled to say this card was picked as the winner for this challenge. Many thanks to the folks at JAI.