Hello blog friends! Welcome to my little place again! Pull up a chair and stay a while.
Today I have a card using a sweet image from Mo's called I Love It. He is such a sweet baby and he was so much fun to color (not to mention the fact I haven't colored an image in over a week and I really missed it!).
His hair had me a little puzzled. It's not too bad if you don't look to close, just glance at it....it looks better that way! I just wasn't quite sure where to put the highlights and shadows. And I sort of hate looking at how other people color images...it feels like cheating. So, next time maybe I'll do a little better. (Oh, and I used my Prismacolor pencils for him.)
I used my own sketch. I have really been thinking about using up my scraps of paper lately. I'm also a quilter and my favorite quilts to make happen to be scrap quilts. I cut strips of paper and zig-zagged them to a paper foundation. I made my little boy image into a tag that was double matted. I stapled a small scrap of ribbon to the top. I used another ribbon on the side. I threaded some pearl cotton through the knot and added some beads from my stash. The flat round ones have snowflakes on them.
I made the sentiment on my computer.
Here you can see the great DP from K&Co called Secret Santa.
On the back you can see how I pieced the paper. I also stamped the edges of all the layers with a snowflake stamp and inked the edges with the same dark green.
I am entering my card in the following challenges:
Mo's Digital Challenge Blog - Love is All Around
Cute Card Thursday - Tags
Digi Tuesday - Child's Play
I think that's about it. Thanks for taking a peek!
Blessings & Hugs,
Michelle
This is looking great. So beautiful job. I had tried to Print VIP cards but it was so difficult for me to design the best.
ReplyDeleteI love the fun layout! Did you sketch it out first? Hang on to it :)
ReplyDeleteThat little babe is so cute - how I remember my guys needing a special giraffe, or every ball! to go to sleep ;)
No no no, Michelle! I think you NAILED the hair! It looks great...up close I can see individual strands...and lots of colors...which is perfect! And I love how you colored his jammies! Thanks so much for joining us again this week at Mo's! Hugs. Pat Frank
ReplyDeleteI think you did fine with the hair, even up close ;) I am all for the using of scraps...part of the reason I signed up with SOS...when I started, I had two storage tubs of scraps...now I am down to one...I also made a commitment to use all of my scraps from a scrapbook page before I start another one...making some spare cards etc...that has cut down on a lot of extra scraps (and extra pages too...cuz I dread using the scraps...yikes)...
ReplyDeleteWell, I think you did a great job with your scraps of paper, and I LOVE IT... Also love the bead work along the side. You did a great job. So glad you joined us at Mo's this week.
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Debbie
Oooh this is sooo cute! I love your coloring! And the card design is awesome!
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