I saw a technique that's new to me and tried it out in this card. In a nutshell, stamp an image, then use a stencil to add color over select parts of the image. (this is not about having a matching stencil to color the image, you're just adding color without worrying about keeping in the lines or anything like that.) I saw this in a stamp company newsletter, and they were using organic shapes to add color. I have a stencil with a variety of geometric shapes, so that's what I went with. It was fund to match geometric shapes with bits of the image.
First, the image was black-embossed. Then I used a small circle stencil to colors some flowers pink, a triangle stencil to add some green to the bouquet, and a long, thin diamond shape to color the vase. I die thin circles in blue and pink and used them to frame the main image. The sentiment as also black-embossed, with a pink stenciled circle emphasizing the "Best!" A few blue circles were sprinkled on as a sort of muted embellishment.
This card is entered in these challenges:
The Flower Challenge #100 -- add circles
Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2510 -- anything goes
A Cut Above -- anything with dies
Word Art Wednesday #689 -- anything goes
Very pretty card - this technique sounds very interesting and I will have to try it out sometime!
ReplyDeleteLori - ACA CD Member