Seaside Portrait

This card is for MFT sketch challenge #27. I know it isn't all that good, but I had fun playing with some different techniques. The cardstock colors are sahara sand, river rock, bordering blue and soft sky. The lady and dog are colored with prismas and oms, then I scribbled in the background with my prismacolor markers, trying to go for a soft almost washed look. All stamps are By The Seashore by MFT Stamps, the different layers are torn to look like waves or the tide line where sand goes from wet (river rock) to dry (sahara sand).If you are comparing this to the sketch, the flock of birds is the star, the water layers are the strip down the middle.Thanks for looking!

Saffron Flowers

This was for a couple of the Gina K release party challenges at SCS. The flowers are from Cammie's Framed Flowers set and the sentiment is from Gina K's Rectangle Greetings set. The colors are so saffron, old olive, and very vanilla. The ribbon is old olive 5/8 in. grosgrain. I sponged some old olive on the so saffron mat of the main image.

Certainly Pretty Chocolate Merci

This card is for sketch challenge 173 and color challenge 163 (certainly celery, pretty in pink, chocolate chip) on SCS. The ink is chocolate chip and certainly celery (just a little celery peeking out from behind the pink pattern paper on the green panel), some piercing. Stamps on main image are from Merci (SAB 2008), and Baroque Motifs on the green panel. Both peices of Pretty in Pink are patterned papers.

Grumpabella is blue!

This card is for Bella Sketch #24 over on SCS. This is my first bella sketch challenge, I'm all excited waiting for my very first bella's to get here. Until then I thought I'd work with an image one of my SCS friends stamped for me. Grumpabella is colored with SU so saffron, not quite navy, and a Marvy marker that matches Soft Sky pretty closely. The paper is Soft Sky, Blue Bayou DSP, and Not Quite Navy for the darker cardstock. The sentiment is a Mary Engelbriet stamp I've had for a long time, no clue who actually manufactures it. Some piercing finishes it up!

Basic Blushing Guava Sketches

I made this card for Sketch Challenge 172 and Color Challenge 162 (basic gray, groovy guava, blush blossom) over on SCS. The butterfly with trail was cased from this card by luvtostampstampstamp. The base is blush blossom, then basic gray, then groovy guava cs and ginger blossom DSP. The image panel has groovy guava and basic gray ink on blush blossom, matted on groovy guava and then basic gray. The ribbon is groovy guava double-stitched and some Micheals $1 that is perfect basic gray color. Stamps are from Priceless set by SU!, and some piercing finishes it up.

Recent Cards

Here are some cards I've made recently using color challenges and sketch challenges. Sorry the photos are bad, I really haven't felt like playing photographer lately but wanted to get some pictures up.
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