When one of my coworkers saw the Doctors Day cards and especially the PowerPoint I had projecting on the wall (see my last post), she asked if I could make her daughter a birthday card using the same colors. Her daughter's on the school band and plays the saxophone, so she wanted anything with music. I had the perfect image in mind...
The image is So Jazzed by Mo Manning. I still had bits of cardstock and the watercolored paper I'd made for the Doctors Day cards, so I pulled this together. She only gave me a night's notice, and I ran out of time, so I had to assemble everything quickly at home and finish coloring the image at work during my lunch. I have never glued together a card before finishing the image, and I think I held my breath the larger part of lunch. I still went a bit out of the lines, but I was rather pleased by the end. Especially since it's been so long since I colored. I did well capturing the red shade of her daughter's hair too! The photo is, unfortunately, another on the fly by cellphone; the richness of the colors in the real-life card is really pretty. I added some Stardust Stickles to the heart on her coat and swirls on her skirt and a teeny dot on the heart attached to the dog's collar. Some Golden Rod Stickles made the sax super sparkly.
As the image is the focus and I didn't want to detract from the watercolored background, I stayed really CAS with this one. I didn't have a piece of the purple cardstock big enough to back my image, so I used two pieces that didn't quite come together so I hid the seams with the little gem up top and a purple heart coated in glossy accents on the bottom. The sentiment is a Paper Smooches sentiment from the Birthday Sampler embossed in white and I used a Happy Birthday from the same set inside along with a strip of the watercolor (no pic, sorry).
I'm entering this sweet girly in a couple of challenges:
Crafting When We Can - #66 for a Child
Charisma Cardz Challenge - #7 Clean & Simple
Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week #118
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So that's it for now... hope to see you all again soon! Until then, best wishes and happy crafting!
Christy
13 comments:
Oh what a fun card Christy - love the image, brilliantly coloured too!
Welcome to the Snippets Playground.
Hugs
Di
xx
lovely CAS card
thanks for playing along with Charisma
AllisonX
Honestly missus, for a card that was put together at short notice and on the hoof, what can I say? Firstly I would never have guessed! Gorgeous colourwork hun, looks like you have never been away from those pens. Loving the image and the colours, and of course the CAS design. This is simply tootastic! Squishy huggles, your Furry Pals xx
What a fun image...bet she loved it!!!
The water colour background is lovely too!
Fab card! Thanks for joining us at Charisma! :)
so stunning christy.loving your lush paper and fabulous image and colouring ;D
x coops xx
You've made a beautiful card that is perfect for the recipient - and at V short notice too. Top marks!
Hugs, Sarn xxx
Hi Christy I have popped over from Di's playground and looked at your blog..I think we all go through phases in our life that knock us down but I'm so glad you managed to get into your crafting because your stuff is gorgeous and I'm now following :) lots of huggles Sue xx
Super snippet card, Christy. Love the backing paper and the fun Mo Manning image. Elizabeth xx
AWESOME card!!! So fun and th bg is wonderful!
The die you asked about is an old Quick cutz 2x2 die - Lifestyle Crafts might still sell it!
Hugs, Karin
Love it, such a fun card :o) Hugs, Lisa x
Ack! This image is so cute, and your coloring is fantastic!
Wow! gorgeous colors and coloring!
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