Monday, February 04, 2013

Beautiful World - Sketch Challenge

Welcome to this month's Beautiful World Tour, brought to you by Flourishes! Each month the team presents a themed blog hop, hosted by our group of international designers... we are literally spread out all over the globe!  At the heart of our projects is the idea of truly showcasing beauty in card making – whether it be in a beautifully colored image, a fabulous way to incorporate an embellishment or a new twist on a card layout.

If you just happened on the blog hop today because you're a regular reader of my blog, and you'd like to view the entire hop, you can start back at the Flourishes Blog - you'll find a full list of participants there, and all the details you need. If you're already hopping and you arrived here from Meredith's blog, you're doing just fine, and you know that we're all working with a fabulous sketch from Chupa!!


I stamped the main image from the Sweet Peas set on watercolor paper, and cut out a circle from the edge - I kept the negative cut and the rest of the image, which will show up in another project someday! The image is watercolored with reinkers and Inktense pencils. I love this set - it's so full of life and motion.


I used my Scor-Buddy to create a frame and lattice around the sentiment, so it wasn't swimming in that wide space. Also, something about this card and color scheme screamed for glitter, so I added some to to the flower edges with a glue pen.



Leave comments for all our designers and you could WIN A FREE FLOURISHES STAMP SET!! Comments will be accepted until the end of the month, and a random comment will be chosen by one of our designers - but we're not telling which one! The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning will be.

From here you'll be traveling on to Finland and the beautiful and talented.........

Thanks for hopping with us today! Don't forget to leave a comment!

Thanks for stopping by!

34 comments:

  1. Such a beautiful card. Love the idea of scoring a frame for the sentiment.

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  2. Oh, Dina, this is STUNNING! LOVE the water-colouring you did and the sparkle you added to the image!

    Hugs,
    Naomi

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  3. Wow Dina this is gorgeous, I love everything about this.

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  4. Oh I love how you made the flowers sparkle. Gorgeous! Hugs! Mojca

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  5. Gorgeous card Dina, I love the sparkle on the flowers and that green shading behind it looks gorgeous!

    Hugs,
    Aleksandra

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  6. This is just stunning Dina! Gorgeous colors and coloring.

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  7. Stunning colouring, as always, Dina. Beautifully embellished and such a lovely take on the sketch x

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  8. Gorgeous card, Dina! Love the soft colors and the beautifully colored flowers! Hugs

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  9. Very pretty card Dina! Love your colouring and the added sparkle.

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  10. Oh, so pretty! I love the coloring on the flowers!

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  11. Simply gorgeous Dina! Lovin' the embossing and your image is stunningly coloured! Fabulous!!!

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  12. Great sketch and beautiful card. I like the touches of glitter.

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  13. Wow the water coloured effect is beautiful and the glitter adds a pretty touch.

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  14. So pretty, and the sparkle on the flowers is the finishing touch.

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  15. Stunning card. i love the glitter on the flowers, and the sentiment is lovely. Thanks for sharing!

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  16. Beautiful card! The flowers are gorgeous!! Love the glittered edges!! Thanks for sharing.

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  17. Oh, this looks like a beautiful watercolour painting - you always do the most beautiful techniques with these images, and I always love to see what's next!

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  18. AWESOME!Love your card...

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  19. Your glitter does made the sweet peas of April pop! They remind me of dew on the flowers.

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  20. Sweet and sparklicious card! Gorgeous water colouring Dina!

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  21. Gorgeous colors, my favorites. I love your card, so beautiful.
    Hugs Kelly

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  22. Francie in Montreal2/05/2013 10:46 AM

    So pretty! Loved the frame for the sentiment, the colours, the colouring, I guess everything.

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  23. Very beautiful card. The glitter on the flowers was a great touch. And your watercolour job is incredible. :)

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  24. Absolutely beautiful! I love this image and you've certainly done a wonderful job with it.

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  25. Beautiful sweet peas, Ms. Dina! Your color work is always so inspiring. Very cool International hop too!

    ~Bev

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  26. You have the most amazing work!! Love it and you are so talented, thanks for sharing with us and thank you for opportunity to win a stamp set. Kim xx

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  27. This is just stunning, Dina! Your pink flowers are so vibrant and I love the touch of glitter.

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  28. Be still my heart!!! Dina this is just divine!!!!

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  29. This is gorgeous!! I LOVE your coloring and the sparkle you added to your image.

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  30. Such a pretty design Dina! Lovely work with your reinkers and Inktense pencils!

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  31. What a beautiful card - I just love the accents of the glitter = it really makes your card POP. The sweet peas reminds me of my childhood when my Grandmother and Aunt always had some sweet peas in a vase in their house. Just love your cards.
    Hugs

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