Wednesday 24 August 2011

bah humbug 33

Bah Humbug 33 is to use something new - the stamp by Wendie Rhodes is new to me, it was part of the set of stamps I borrowed to use for challenge 25, penguins - I quite liked this scene, so stamped a few images before returning the stamp set to Moira. The one that made it to the card was rhe 3rd attempt, so I may be asking to borrow it again!   I coloured the image with promarkers, then covered it with versamark and clear embossed it. The background was brayered and masked. The sky began with  the waterfall big n'juicy pad, then stampin up night of navy over the top - I found that the waterfall on its own was too bright, and the navy too dull, but both together was fine! The sand dunes in front were done with stampin up crumb cake ink.
After I had finished the colouring, I thought that my new top note die would go well with the oriental image, so cut it out, with fingers firmly crossed that the cut would be in the right place! (I did mark the die first with white marker so I had a fighting chance of getting it right). The matting layers were cut freehand, 2 in linen-effect silver and one from paper from the Artylicious decadent brocade cd (from Chocolate Baroque) and mounted onto an A5 dark blue card.

Have reloaded the photo, hope the zoom works now - Blogger was playing up when I did the original post, and didn't want to load the photo at all









                                                                                          

5 comments:

  1. I like this image a lot. Unfortunately I couldn't increase the size of your photo to see all the lovely detail you told us about. Are you using Google Chrome? I have gone back to Firefox just for my blogs because Chrome won't let you resize the pictures. Anyway, it is a lovely card. so well done! Kate x

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  2. That looks really good but sadly I couldn't enlarge the photo to see it more clearly. That Top Note die is great isn't it and well done for cutting layers as well - I've not gone there yet.

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  3. That is some gorgeous colour work - especially at full screen size which is how it came this time when I clicked.

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  4. Hi, love this image it's beautiful how you have coloured it. Hugs x ChrisB

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  5. Excellent colouring of your lovely little scene Veronica and I love all the layers on your matting. A beautiful card!

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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