Wednesday 31 August 2011

Papertrey Ink birthday card

Hello everyone,

I hope you had a great Bank Holiday. I'm trying not to think that the next English Bank Holiday will be Christmas Day!

I just want to share a quick card I made for this weeks PTI Make it Monday challenge which was to use colouring pencils on a card. Jennifer used Prismacolour pencils in her video but I don't have any of those and only have a few colours of watercolour pencils. Nevertheless, I thought I'd have a try even though I never mastered the watercolour pencil technique and was so relieved when Copics and Promarkers became readily available.

I came up with this card:-

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I took a piece of card and drew lines across in 2 shades of pink and 2 shades of blue pencil before using a watercolour brush to blend the colours together. I then cut out a panel from it with a Nestabilities label die. Next came the PTI dahlia and leaf dies and stamps and I coloured those with varying shades of watercolour pencil. I made a stitched mat from white and aqua mist card and stamped some sentiments on before attaching the vine die border across. A few pink gems finished it off.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x

7 comments:

Linby said...

oh it's gorgeous Carol. Love the colours you have used.
Linbyx

Carolyn/MamaC said...

This is such a beautiful card! The colors are just wonderful!
Carolyn
http://cccscraproom.blogspot.com

Trina Georgi said...

soooo pretty - great color combo!

Stampin in the suburbs said...

THis is really nice. I love the stitching.

Teresa said...

Very pretty flower. Your sentiment combo is very nice too.

Anne said...

Very pretty card, love the soft colours! x

Suzanne Russell said...

How pretty, Carol. I love the whole design and your coloring is excellent!

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