Colorful Options wants lovely shades of blue, mauve, and green. I decided they worked well for a dragonfly.
It's stamped in archival ink, watercoloured with Twinkling H2Os, trimmed with a stitched rectangle die, bordered in pale gold glitter cs, and popped up with fun foam on cream cs.
For the Triple B Birds, Blooms, and / or Butterflies challenge, I was inspired by the winter bird in the right hand image of their mood board and the shade of blue in the left hand image. And Stencil Fun's theme is Birds.
I stamped and watercoloured the image. Then stencilled the bubbles around it, stamped a few bits of a snowflake along the edges, and sponged a bit of colour around the edges to darken them.
Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Unity Stamp Co. Be the Best set
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - hot press watercolour paper, pale gold glitter cs, cream cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Twinkling H2Os, Lil Inker stitched rectangle, fun foam
Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - PaperArtsy bird and sentiment, Penny Black branch, TH snowflake stamp
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, Distress Speckled Egg
Paper - watercolour paper, green and off-white cs
Size - 5.75" square
Accessories - TH Bubble stencil, watercolour paints, Spellbinders square die
I love the coloring on the dragonfly and the bird. Both sentiments are touching.
ReplyDeleteI adore this! It's so clean and simple and it let's the dragonfly just pop off the card. The bird is wonderful as well. :) Thank you so much for joining us at Colorful Options.
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Oh Susan, Mr. Bird is too cute! Great design & coloring! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Triple B & Stencil Fun challenges! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
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Both beautiful, but you had to know that dragonfly would capture my attention! 😉💙🩵
ReplyDeleteAnother cut bird and a delightful dragonfly!
ReplyDeleteboth are wonderful Susan, your dragonfly is so pretty and your robin is stamp set I've been after for ages and it never makes it into my card. I really should borrow it off you :)
ReplyDeleteAdorably cute bird in his cozy hat, too CUTE!!
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Diane SF Co-Owner
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Your dragonfly is so pretty and I love the collage of images. LOVE the colours you've used. That bird in a hat is adorable. Great colouring and fabulous stenciled background, Susan. xx
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