Today's card honors two fabulously talented stampers: First up is Michelle, aka sf9erfan, who is this week's SCS Featured Stamper. I'm a big fan - her gallery is amazing! Second up is Jackie Pedro, aka strappystamper, who is the first featured stamper in my swap group. She's wildly talented and a sweetie to boot. Check out her blog, The Scalloped Edge.
In keeping with the featured stamper rules, I picked a card from each, then put them together for my CASE. I love the simple, uncluttered layout of Michelle's Pretty Bird card. I pulled the colors (except I changed the Chocolate Chip to Basic Black), floral theme, and the Swiss Dots on white from this card of Jackie's. I love how it turned out! No surprise with these two to CASE!
I colored the flowers with two of my new Copic markers. Last Friday, I took a little spur of the moment trip to my closest stamp store (Angela's Happy Stamper) specifically for a few markers. Before I take the plunge on a big set, I'm trying them out with just a handful (I got five). I love them so far. But then again, I've never met a coloring medium I don't love :) I'm hoping to take a class at Angela's toward the end of May. And I definitely need more colors to do the blending I'd like to do. I chose my colors with no real thought or purpose. I kind of went with what was in stock, along with trying to pick a lighter and darker shade of one color for blending. Back to the card -- each of the swirls on the petals has a small dollop of Stardust Stickles.
Thanks for stopping by!
Stamps: Thankful Blossoms (Verve Visual)
Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery
Ink: Onyx Black Versafine
Accessories: Certainly Celery buttons, 1/2" and 3/4" circle punches, paper piercer, Stardust Stickles, white gel pen, dimensionals, Copic markers RV21 and RV29, black stitched ribbon (Making Memories), Swiss Dots cuttlebug folder
Supplies by Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.
12 comments:
GORGEOUS, Amy!!! I love it!!
This is so gorgeous Amy!!! Love the colors!!
Amy, this is gorgeous! I LOVE that Swiss Dots folder and you made such a simple, GORGEOUS card with it!
Wow, this is an amazing card.....beautiful. Joan
Beautiful card Amy! Love the flowers!
THis card is fabulous---seriously. I LOVE everything about it---great color, layout, all of it! Thanks so much for sharing~
Amy, this is just soooo lovely! I love the colors and that Swiss Dots folder!
ohhh...so pretty--great colors--lovin the flowers!
This is so pretty, Amy! Angela's isn't too far from my home--I may try to get to one of the Copic classes there, too.
Amy, this is beautiful!! Way to combine the two challenges! Thank you for the kind words and for playing!!
THIS card is AMAZING! I love the white embossed cardstock against the pretty cut out flowers. So gorgeous!
This is really beautiful. I love the striking colour combination. I was planning on buying a few Copics just to try them out too before investing lots of $$ in them. Do you need the colourless blender in order to use them?
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