Birthday

Happy Saturday, and I hope ya'll are so ready for the weekend. Welcome to a new follower, Miss Suzanne. I'm so happy to have you join me here; hope when you can visit, you'll find something you like and just enjoy having a good ol' chat! Maybe ya'll might want to check out Suzanne's blog if you can.

I had seen a stamped rose image done in oranges, and thought I'd give that color a whirl. I love roses, but tend to stick with pinks & reds. (Red is a hard copic color to do, for me anyway...it tends to bleed. That's one reason I stick with the Copic Xpress paper, as it seems to work better for me than other papers I use). I had meant to use copics when I stamped this, but then realized I had used GP paper - not good for copic coloring. If I have bits of papers on the desk, sometimes I will start stamping without insuring it's right for copics.  I'm also trying to learn to work better with pencils. Grabbed up the Derwent Inktense Pencils & started with the smaller buds, using the pink-red family; then got brave enough try the orange-y look on the big rose. Blended the colors using a water brush. I kinda liked the way it turned out.

- after coloring the buds & leaves, I mixed some glossy accents with Rangers Diamond stickles onto a cd disk, swirled them together with a toothpick and painted over the flowers. IRL they have a lot of sparkle & shine. Let that dry (the GP paper did warp a bit. Not pleased with that). Airbrushed Copic B0000 & B000 for the mottled background.


- leaf trim at bottom was part of a salvaged Memory Box wreath die cut. The missing part had been too close to paper edge, leaves didn't cut properly. So I snipped out that part, and did a little trim on this card.

- sentiment was stamped on a snippet using one of the Memento greens, punched with an oval SU punch. The green scallop behind was also an SU punch.

- MS edge punch on the trim (covering another mistake...didn't cut the yellow check paper wide enough). There is a small strip of yellow behind the green trim, so that the white card base didn't peek through.

- Die cut is S/Binder Label 10, with a faux mat of another snippet that I thought looked ok with the other colors. Dragonfly is a brad, 'pincers' removed, glued on. (Ahem, covering a tiny splotch of stamp-edge overflow). Think the card will be fine as one of my summer birthday cards.

I had been making my pictures smaller when I post, due to an article I read that blogger considers storage space based on picture size. Got some nifty advice from Sharon giving me some information about photo sizes in posts, so I will be using the larger size photo when I post. Thanks so much Sharon! Gosh, I get so much help from other bloggers. That has been one of the most rewarding things that has happened to me, since I started this blog last year. Meeting so many - not just talented folks - but those who are so generous with their knowledge! Just appreciate & love that!

Anyway, ya'll have a great weekend. Come again soon, now heah? Hugs