Saturday, March 03, 2007

Pansy cards

Here are a couple more cards that are on their way across the ocean to Susan at smARTworks. I was tickled to find my name on their website newsletter yesterday! Thanks, Susan!

I can't remember if I mentioned before that I cut this stamp in half (remember before he was feeding a lamb?)...I just imagined him picking flowers, so the lamb had to be removeable. I woke up one morning with the 'pansies' quote from Hamlet in my head...I like it out of context, but I remember it being in a sort of disturbing scene....so...let's not think about it! That part is actually not a stamp (yet?)...I designed that on the computer, with a couple other stamps to go along with it...I think I'll submit them to smARTworks, and who knows - maybe you'll be able to stamp them on your cards in the future? The little man is watercolored, and you know he had to be in some kind of a scene. I had fun watercoloring the fence, trees and little house in the background - I tried to make them a little impressionistic so the picture had some depth. The butterfly and other flowers are pieces of another stamp. I dyed that ribbon with an inkpad, but it came out a little dingier (is that a word) than I wanted. Oh well...

I colored the second card image using my Prismacolor pencils and OMS. The fence is hand-drawn and I used a stencil for the clouds. See that pansy paper? This was the card I made it for, and I had a scrap just the right size for the second card too. That second card has an unusual amount of white on it for a dini card, but sometimes ya just gotta simplify...it is textured cardstock, so that makes up for it. I handwrote 'blessings' on that one.

I made a quick bag-a-lope yesterday but we had to run out the door to a birthday party so I didn't get a chance to take a picture. I think I'll have to use that idea next time the girls want to come over to stamp.

3 comments:

  1. Beautiful as always - what a great idea to have him picking flowers!

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  2. What amazing artwork you have here! I've aded you to my blog. And what is that gooey mess in your title?!

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  3. This card is just so wonderful. Your art is truly inspiring to me. Your use of color is right on the mark!

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