Green and Gold

Like yesterday's card, I've used white pencils on dark green cardstock to colour the flower image. A white bow and some gold cardstock finish my design. I have to confess that I wish I'd chosen silver instead of gold, I think it would have complimented the green better... ah well, there's always next time.

Digital Stamps:

Stem In A Teacup Cards

This beautiful collection of cards was created by Cynthia with the new Stem in a Teacup set of digital stamps. She printed and coloured the first two images before incorporating them into her gorgeous card designs. Her third card features the pre-coloured wild rose with the addition of gold glitter in the centre of the blossom.

Cynthia's Blog

Celebrate

To create today's card, I coloured and fussy cut the wild rose from the Stem in a Teacup set and secured it over an embossed background. A little glittered cardstock adds some pretty sparkle and helps to breaks up all the white.

Digital Stamps:

Colouring Project - day four

This is the final image for the floral colouring project I've been working on. Now all I need to do is get all four images into their little frames and hung on the wall.

Stamp: Wild Rose by Beccy's Place

Yellow Roses

I was tidying my craft room a few days ago and came across a fabulous pad of patterned paper, primarily in shades of dark blue, but with a few touches of yellow here and there. Out came the yellow markers (which meant all my tidying was immediately undone!) and a printed version of the Wild Rose digital stamp.

I always find it tricky to get enough contrast when using yellow.  It's already a light colour and although it becomes richer, the variations with shadow and highlight aren't as wide as I would like. To compensate, I add some brown tones, which help to deepen and darken the shadow areas.

And here's the finished card I created with my coloured image and some of the fabulous patterned paper from the pad. Happily, there is still lots left so I'll be able to create more cards and projects with the same colour scheme. The only downside is that it's unlikely my craft room will ever be completely tidy!