Time for another challenge amongst friends: Beate, Jenn, Angel, Lori and myself. This time, Lori sent out some adorable stamped images by Anna Wight for Whipper Snapper Designs . . . this one is Spring Bird:
Lori also sent this cute paper by DCWV that has glittery accents all over it! I loved the lavender colors in it (accented with orange shades), so I chose SU's lavender lace as a card base. I chose two of the three patterned papers she sent and cut them into 2" wide strips and used this week's SplitcoastStampers sketch challenge for my layout. It was a familiar layout to me because Roxie (the challenge host) chose a previous card I made as the template!
Lori had stamped these birds onto shimmer white cardstock -- one of my favorites to work with when watercoloring (I wish the shimmer showed up in the photo). I used an Aqua Painter to watercolor the bird and her flower with SU's dye reinkers: amethyst, lavender, celery, orange & bordering blue. Then I lightly gave the background a sunny wash of banana reinker (it's really not that blotchy or dark in person, I guess that's the effect on the camera with the shimmer of the cardstock). I clipped the corners of the focal image with SU's Ticket Corner Punch and matted it with lavender lace cardstock. It is mounted with dimensionals to the orange mat.
The little row of orange flowers are Doodlebug's Paper Frills in tangerine and I filled the flower centers with glitter. I accented those little flowers with the smallest flower from PAPERTREYink's Little Lady set, Versamarked on the lavender card base.
The sentiment is from PAPERTREYink's Green Thumb set, stamped in lavender classic ink on shimmer white cardstock and punched with SU's large oval punch; it also got a wash of banana color. The orange mat was hand cut with Fiskar's scalloped scissors (I can't wait for PAPERTREYink's June 1 preorder date for all of Marvy's scalloped punches, so I don't have to do this anymore!). To finish off the card, I punched the right side's card base corners with the Ticket Corner punch.
Check out the other girls' cards by clicking on their names/links above. Lots of fun, Lori -- thanks for the challenge! I can't wait to see what they all came up with . . . it's fun to see how differently we all think & design with the same supplies!
