While I had those same BasicGrey Gypsy papers out on my desk for yesterday's sketch challenge card, I ran across Tami Mayberry's blog that had a color challenge on it (hosted by Julia Stainton), using just about these same colors, so I thought I'd play along! A few of the Cornish Heritage Farms designers (you'll find their blog links in my left sidebar) that were unable to travel to CHA got together this week and entertained themselves with daily challenges -- how fun! So since I only got to go to CHA for one day, I thought I'd play along, even though I didn't discover these challenges until yesterday!
Here were the Prism colors to work with:
Another challenge was a sketch hosted by Tami Mayberry and it is shown above. I also knew I wanted to use Gina K's new Stamps for a Cause set (more on that below), so this card came together very quickly (I love those kind since I'm usually a very slow stamper)! Here's the card I came up with:
I didn't have those exact colors (yet!), so I substituted Prismatics Intense Orange for the Papaya Puree Dark and Intense Kiwi for the Spring Willow Medium (hope that's okay!). My Intense Pink and Birchtone colors are picked up in the vase of flowers and Primas. To get the perfect color of pearl for the Prima flower center, I just colored a white pearl with the green Copic marker I used to color my main image!
The sweet flower image is Gina K's new Stamps for a Cause set, How Sweet It Is. Gina is the kindest soul and I've really enjoyed working with her last year and this year on her Stamps for a Cause Campaign (<== you can read all about it by clicking on that highlighted text). $7 from each stamp set benefits The American Diabetes Association and the Juvenille Diabetes Foundation.
The image was stamped in Brilliance Pearlescent Chocolate on Curious Iridescent Cryogen White cardstock and colored with Copic Sketch markers RV06, YR04, YG03, E53 and E15. Copic colorless blender pen was used to lift colors from these markers, to get a little lighter tones of these shades. Here's a little closer view of the colored image:
I'll have a tutorial in my next post about how I created this out-of-the-box flower and a few more Copic tips, so watch for that a little later today. Edited to add: The tutorial is located HERE.
Why don't you have a little weekend fun, too, and join in the challenge . . . you can post a link to your creation either on Tami's blog or here and I'll come check it out!
