Friday, February 18, 2011

Sweet Pea Sketch With CR84FN Colors

Well...IRL the colors are teal, green and yellow, like in the CR84FN challenge, but no matter where I took the picture of this card, it looks more blue.  I promise, it's teal!  I had a hard time coloring this one.  I had bought some more expensive, supposedly better quality watercolor paper for using Distress Inks.  I've had a hard time with this paper with getting the Distress Inks to blend properly, or even just lay down properly, so I'm going to go back to my cheapy watercolor paper that I really liked.  Live and learn.  This cute lady is called "Telsa" from Sweet Pea Stamps.  After the Distress Inks dried, I had to even out some places on this with Prismacolors and then blend.  I glued on the tiny, fine chain in the areas on the image where she had chains, so that adds some glitz, along with Stickles on her hat.  The DP is Cafe Mediterranean from DCWV; this particular page had the perfect colors for the CR84FN color scheme.  I added the hand-cut "banner" to the side (like I did on the last card); think it looks really cute!
Challenges
Sweet Pea Stamps - sketch.
CR84FN15 - Teal, green, yellow.
Papertake Weekly - Putting on the Glitz.

Stamps:  Sweet Pea "Telsa", sentiment from MFT
Paper:  Watercolor paper, DCWV Cafe Mediterranean, The Paper Studio.
Ink:  Distress Inks, Colorbox Queues.
Accessories:  Spellbinders, Cuttlebug, Dew Drops, chain, Stickles.

7 comments:

Mona Pendleton said...

What a fun card Nancy! Perfect for a fashionista GF :) Thanks for joining along with CR84FN :)

Sue Lelli said...

OOH! La! La! Pretty card~! LOVE the hand cut banner and that beautiful girl! THX for playing with us this week at CR84FN!

Deborah Frings said...

I love her - she's so funky!! Great effect to add the chains! Lovely backing paper. Thanks for playing along with CR84FN this week!

Heather Rogers said...

Super cute! Love this adorable image. Thanks so much for playing at CR84FN! :)

Vanessa (aka V'ness, Nessa, oldschool) said...

very beautiful card!!!
thanks so much for tryin out my sketch...good luck!!!

Jill said...

gorgeous card Nancy thanks for joining us at PTW hugs Jill xx

theboelemas@aol.com said...

Gorgeous card. Thanks for joining our sketch challenge over at Sweet Pea Stampers. Good luck. Claire x