Wednesday, February 04, 2009

CPS 101 - sponsored by Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread designs is helping the Card Positioning Systems blog celebrate their 2nd anniversary! Here's the sketch for this week's sponsors. The design team got a sneak peek at the sketch, so be sure to check out their blogs too for some more beauties from the Bread Basket. Links are to the left!

Still waiting for my new releases, so I pulled out an older set, ODBD's first release called Light of the World. I stamped the lighthouse image on watercolor paper, and sketched in a little more scene to cover the width of my panel. The ocean is watercolored with reinker (Adirondack Stream), tinged with a little drop of Indigo Shimmerz. For the rest of the scene I used my Derwent watercolor pencils and a Niji waterbrush. Once the water was dry, I added in some reflections, and some white gel pen lines. The single word "Blessings" is from the set "Cross of Christ."

Here are a couple of detail shots to show off the Shimmerz - Indigo in the water...
...and Gold Glimmer (Blingz) on the light and beams.

(ODBD carries the entire line of Shimmerz....I can't wait to get some more colors to play with!!)

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12 comments:

  1. How pretty! Love all the sparkles! :)

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  2. Beautiful! Shimmerz in the water is a great idea! Blessings on your day!

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  3. Absolutely beautiful! I could just swim in that water (except for the sharks) -- my favorite shades of blue. The Shimmerz is a great addition. Love it!

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  4. Truly artistic!! Your coloring is remarkable!!!

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  5. Dina, your coloring is just stunning!!!! Beautiful card!!!! Blessings to you and yours!!!!

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  6. Absolutely beautiful Dina! Your coloring is remarkable. A true work of art!!

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  7. Gorgeous, as always! I really love what you've been doing with the lighthouse. Shoot, I really *love* the lighthouse by itself!

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  8. OK, when I first saw the sketch I wasn't too crazy about the cris-cross and the circle in the middle. But when I saw what you did with it I LOVED it! I love how you tied it a little off center. It just changes the whole sketch. Beautiful job!

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  9. Dina,
    this is a lovely card! The water and shimmer are fabulous!!

    Take care and STAY POSITIVE!

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  10. Thanks for sharing Dina. I have a ton of them from when they sold before. Your lighthouse is awesome!

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