Wednesday 19 January 2011

Monochrome at Crafts & Me

We're havng a monochrome theme over at Crafts & Me for the next fortnight.  For this one I've used a new image which will be released soon which is part of Lemon Shortbreads range of "Melody" stamps.  This one is Flapper Girl 2 and she's just as pretty as 1!  The team are also busy working on samples as Crafts & Me are doing their first show at Stevenage on 6th Feb so do pop over and say hello to Teresa and see her range of stamps including some new ones and see the girls samples in the flesh :)
This one was coloured with promarkers and artist pencils for shading.  I added a bit of a halo with pencils around her and spread out with sansador then distressed around the edges with brilliance ink in red.  Papers are print outs from Bearly Mine, very handy having digital papers as I dont have many red ones so I just print and theyre ready to go :)  Text was stamped with an alphabet set and I've added ickle butterflies from the martha stewart 3 in 1 butterfly punch and whole card finished with a couple of squirts of Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer mist.  Hope you'll love the new images by Lemon Shortbread, I've seen some of the others too and they're gorgeous!

Would also like to enter into...

Papertake - Ribbons & Pearls
My time to craft - Spots & Dots
I Love Promarkers - Keep it sweet & simple
Flutterby Wednesday - Open Week
Oh Alice - Mostly Red
Cute Card Thursday - Monochrome
My Partner in Crafting Crime - New (Stamp)
Make it Colorful - Colour with Red



Some close ups below, the flower and halo

And the bangle, the centre was coloured with a clear sakura stardust pen then  added little red dots from a red sakura stardust pen.

Thanks for looking!

28 comments:

Juls said...

just gorgeous!!! Love this image, its my fav colour combo....and I Love how you have blinged up all the jewlary!

Hugs Juls

Lorraine said...

Not sure I would call ANY of your cards simple, Vix, lol but that is fabulous. Great card, hun. Thanks for taking part at I ♥ Promarkers this week.

Cards By MI said...

Really wonderful card. Love your great colour combo!
xMarie

Robin said...

She is a fab new stamp!! Love all your detail!! Thanks for playing with My Partner in Crafting Crime, Robin

Teresa said...

Wow! Vix absolutely georgous I love the colours and the colouring what can I say! this is the first time I have seen this stamp made into a card and it is fantastic.

Teresa x

Doreen said...

This is fabulous great colours,and I love the image.xxx

Jessica Diedrich said...

Wow! This is fantastic! What a gorgeous vintage image and your coloring and all the little details just make this so pretty! thanks for playing along at Oh, Alice!

Jen Shults said...

This is wonderful! I love the colors on this!! Thanks for joining us at Flutterby!

Sheila said...

Just fabulous hun, you are certainly making this images very appealing to me :-), wasn't sure about 'em at first but the more I see you work with the more tempted I am ;-).

Glad you stuck her into Make it colourful this wee.
Hugs
Sheilakins xxx

katesacraftybugger said...

gorgeous , love the little details -thanks for joining us at I ♥ Promarkers.Kate

Unknown said...

bling bling bling !!! its lush, love the colours hun xx

Angela Weimer said...

Beautiful. Love the colour and details. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day. Angela

Unknown said...

what a beautiful card! Thanks for joining us at FBW

Bella´s Bastelecke said...

his is fabulous great colours,and I love the image...........

Hugs
Judith

Vicky said...

Hi hunni this is stunning as always I love this image she is fab. I'm the same when it comes to red papers so thankfully rely on digi papers...usually Bearly Mine lol.

Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx

Nannieflash said...

Hi Vixy, wow this is just gorgeous, I love those deep reds youve used they look stunning. With love and hugs Shirleyxxxx

My name is Wynneth said...

This certainly is a glamorous card, Ilove the vibrant colours and the bling. Thanks for joining us on I ♥ Promakers this week.
hugs
wynneth
x

Karen said...

Really lovely Vix, thanks for joining us at I ♥ ProMarkers.
xx

Pat said...

Super card, gorgeous image. Thanks for sharing at MTTC this week.

Pat xx

Barbara Sproatmeyer (LM2) said...

Gorgeous AND glamorous!! I love the red you chose and your coloring is wonderful! The layout is fabulous and really draws attention to all the details. Thanks for playing along in the Make it Colourful challenge this week. :D

Jill said...

wow wow wow stunning card love the image, colours just everything thanks for joining us at PTW hugs Jill xx

Suzilou said...

Oh wow what a fab card, love the image and the colour, very attractive card :)

Julie said...

A beautiful card Vix. Thanks for joining us at I ♥ Promakers this week.
Julie W x

Debbie said...

This is beautiful and so rich looking.

PixieHouse Creations said...

Simply gorgeous, i love the way you colour in your images, must get myself some fo these stamos and get back into stamping
wendy x

Deborah Frings said...

Great colours. The image is beautifully coloured. Very glam!

gillyflower said...

wow this is stunning vix you are so tallented wish i was half as good with a pencil
gill x

PepPop said...

Stunning card! The image is fantastic. I love your colouring and all your little details. Jaqui x