There's a whopper of a prize up for grabs at the Play Date Cafe, so I wanted to make sure I played along this week. Also, I love this week's color combination of white-melon-green.
I thought the Hero Arts Dogwood would look lovely in Melon, however I had a heck of a time getting the green i wanted on the leaves.
I bought some cheaper colored pencils thinking a pencil is a pencil … but I've learned that is not always true. Sometimes the pencil quality doesn't matter … but sometimes, like with this, I really needed the thicker coverage and richer hue of a Prismacolor or higher quality pencil, and I didn't have the right color. The cheaper pencils just wouldn't give me the depth of color I needed.
I finally painted on some chalk ink, which ended up a bit muddier than I hoped, but the color is closer to what I needed.
The sketch is this week's Unscripted Sketch.
The sentiment is very vintage Basic Grey (made when they were still part of K&Company).
Great card. Love the flowers and WOW the colours look fab on them well done. Thanks for playing with Unscripted this week.
Stunning card, the colouring is superb.
What a gorgeous card – love those flowers and your coloring! Thanks for playing at Unscripted Sketches!
This is so nice! I really love that color combo and the flowers are so pretty. So neat you used the Unscripted sketch for your design.
Those flowers are gorgeous and you have coloured them beautifully…very effective
Sue xx
you are so right, not all pencils are equal!! thanks for playing along in the cafe with this beautifully coloured piece 🙂
Just beautiful! I love the flowers and you did such a wonderful job coloring. Thanks for playing along with US this week.
A very lovely card! The coloring is very soft…so pretty!
Wonderfully vibrant and gorgeous image! Love that the focal piece is almost the whole card because it is just darling! Thanks for playing along with us at the Play Date Cafe!
Now there is a box today for me to leave a comment! I am so sorry about all the other days!! EH!
I love how you stacked the flower image on two solid colored papers! CLEVER–love how you colored the flowers:) BEAUTIFULLY done!! Love visiting here, Stephanie:) Thanks for joining in the fun and playing along with us at the PDCC:)
WOW! This is fabulous – such a show stopper. Excellent job. THanks for creating along with us at Unscripted this week.
Love those pink dogwoods – so pretty! Thanks so much for joining us this week at Unscripted Sketches, and don’t forget to join us this coming Saturday for our Breast Cancer Awareness Blog Hop! Becky G.