Kit

Happy Saturday everyone, hope you're all well and enjoying the weekend, and for those of you who make cards, its World Card Making Day today :)

Today I'm sharing a card that I made for a very special reason. 

Now I'm sure those of you who follow my blog regularly know that I often do GDT work around my regular DT slots.  It gives me an opportunity to work with different artists that I love, showcasing their designs in my own style.  Usually I just take up offers when I can fit them in and don't go actively looking, but Saturated Canary is having a GDT call and I just couldn't resist.  

To give you some history, Saturated Canary images are one of the reasons I got into stamping and colouring in the first place.  I stumbled across somebody's blog where they'd used a SC image on a card and loved the image so much I googled for Saturated Canary Images......well I'm sure you can imagine the vast array of results I got.  Clicking on one of them led me to Bev Rochester's blog and I followed that by email (I had no blog at the time), and after a few weeks I decided I would try my hand at stamping and colouring. I bought quite a few SC digis and boy was choosing hard!

So SC images were one of my first loves in the world of stamping and that love has not faded with time, I love Krista's stamps, both digi and rubber and love to colour them up in both Copics and Distress Inks (and occasionally Inktense Pencils), so when I saw the GDT call I just had to try as it's been a dream of mine for a while to work with the DT, they have inspired me soooo much!

Anyway, enough waffle, this is my entry:

This is Saturated Canary's  Kit, she's a digital stamp and she's a required image for the call, isn't she adorable? Love that face and hair. I had a hard time deciding whether to colour her with Copics or Distress Inks, but in the end I went with DIs as I thought they would go well with the Pion papers that I chose. These are from the  My Precious Daughter collection. The beautiful sentiment is cut from the same collection. I've distressed. inked and stitched all my layers, and used a little shabby pink frantage around the image.

Colours used:

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye, Fired Brick

Hair: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Gathered Twigs

Clothes: Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Antique Linen, Broken Twigs

I used a lot of heart motives to complement her hairstyle. I must admit it was quite hard getting the balance right on the card, because the extra height caused by the plaits makes this image quite tall in relation to the width. In hindsight I should have gone with a different shape card to balance it out, but instead I blanaced it by the use of shapes to break up the squareness of the card. I used the largest dies from my Spellbinders plain and scalloped heart nesties, a La-La Land Crafts Heart Doily die and an oval from the MFT Pierced Ovals Stax. The beautiful pearl heart on the bow is from The Handcrafted Card Company and I coloured the diamantes with my copics

The lace (almost hidden), pearls, pink tulle trim and ribbon are from The Ribbon Girl. Flowers are from Wild ORchid Crafts.

 To finish I used more paper from the collection, another Spellbinders heart with another  Heart Doily behind and a few flat back pearls.

Hope you like it and wish me good luck on the GDT call, I would so love to be chosen, but there are only 2 spots available and lots of talented people entering, so I need all the luck you can send!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Live and Love Crafts #28 PINK anno 2014

This card is available for sale in my Etsy shop

Happy crafting and enjoy your weekend! :) xx