Sunday, December 12, 2010

Special Delivery

You know that I love to color, so I'll be honest and say that preprinted and precolored images aren't my first choice when it comes to cardmaking, but I adore these Sepia Toppers from the Charlie's Ark line... these come 6 in a package, 3 each of 2 designs, and there are 4 holiday designs to choose from at this time. You can leave the cards as is, or alter them according to your style with inks, pencils, sponging, paints, or whatever it is that makes your work uniquely 'you'.

This is the set I used for my card, which is called Special Delivery. I just couldn't leave it alone - I was itching to color Charlie... so I pulled out my colored pencils (I prefer Prismacolors, but I have a variety of other brands thrown in my collection, too) and a sharpener. I used very sharp pencils and colored very lightly (my friend Jacki says 'tickle the paper'... if that gives you an idea of the pressure!). This is the result!

I added a little dimension using a large stylus, by embossing over a foam pad. I also made some cuts in a few places with a craft knife, and popped up corners for a 3-D effect. I used a glaze pen from Sakura in the window areas, and added a sprinkle of Polar White Flower Soft here and there. I embossed around the edges of the topper too, using a Scor-Pal. Those details show better in the photo below...
These are the pencils I used:
Hope this gives you some ideas! Thanks for visiting............
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9 comments:

  1. your additions make this image go from great to spectacular! and I love the "tickle the paper" technique :-)

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  2. I love this card. Soft pastels colors are my fav. What you did to this is amazing.

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  3. I'm tickled that you remember what I said about "tickling" the paper! Very nice card inspiring as always.

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  4. Love, love, love the coloring you did! It was a lovely image before - but the after shot is gorgeous!

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  5. Stunning! I LOVE sepia, I will have to check this site out!

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  6. Gorgeous! Love the soft colors, your coloring is fabulous.

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  7. I love it!! I'm going to have to get a few of those and get tickling too. I love the look.

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  8. Beautiful. So soft and the coloring is fabulous.

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  9. Im a coloring addict and can understand how pre-colored images just dont seem to be right to me....but these are absolutely stunning with the soft colors that you used. You did a fantastic job to make a pretty card into a gorgeous card!

    *Hugs*
    ~Andrea

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