Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Nature Challenge #142

Today I have made a card for this weeks challenge over at SweetStamps.com. The theme is Nature and I used a beautiful bird stamp and the sentiment that comes in the pack. 

 I stamped the image with black ink on a piece of white cardstock and then I colored the image with some regular colored pencils. I wanted the image to have very muted colors and I just lightly colored it to get that subtle coloring. I then used some red Stickles to get some glitter and extra interest to the card. I colored the edges with black ink and matted the cardstock on a piece of black crdstock to get a small frame. The cardbase is a deep red cardstock from Bazzill.  The sentiment is sold together with the bird stamp and I embossed it in white on the same cardstock as I used for the cardbase. 
As usual you can join the fun. Make sure to visit the SweetStamps blog for more information and the complete Challenge Rules.


Products from SweetStamps.com used on this card:
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 5, 2013 at 2:13 PM

    This stamp is one of my favorites! I really like the background and how you colored the birds.

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  2. RoxieNovember 5, 2013 at 4:20 PM

    Perfect image for the challenge, very nice card.

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  3. Shelly SchmidtNovember 5, 2013 at 5:47 PM

    Beautiful! I love your shading- and how it highlights the birds. Love the stickles and the red in the BG. Hubby is over my shoulder and is commenting on this beauty too : )

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  4. Donna K November 5, 2013 at 8:51 PM

    Beautiful card, Erika! Adding the stickles was a great addition to your beautiful coloring. Those birds are lovely!!

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  5. Sandy FredrickNovember 6, 2013 at 1:24 AM

    What a wonderful card. Beautiful coloring on the image and I love the shading around the edge of the design.

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  6. ~ Kendra ~November 6, 2013 at 4:53 PM

    Wow, what a beautiful card!! LOVE it!! Lovely coloring of the image and love the distressing on the edge of the paper!

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  7. Tamara MortonNovember 6, 2013 at 9:49 PM

    Wow Erkia, I love your card and the colours are really soft. How did you achieve the shading around the outside of your card? It really sets the image off. xx

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    1. UnknownNovember 7, 2013 at 11:06 PM

      I managed to get some black distress ink on the card and didn't know how to get rid of it and I just didn't want to start all over again, so I ended up rescuing the whole card by adding more black distress ink around the whole piece with my blending tool. And by doing this my mistake disappeared and just became part of the "shading" :)

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  8. Nazeema Calypso ThompsonNovember 8, 2013 at 7:22 PM

    Gorgeous card Erika! Love the soft colors and your recovery process on the card!! Well done!! :)

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