Sunday, February 28, 2016

Floral Birthday

Coloring has been all the rage.  In particular, coloring with Copic markers.  I've not yet made the plunge into Copics, though temptation has certainly come and gone and come again.  I've satisfied myself with using ink pads and water color brush but you just don't get the vibrancy.  Copics are definitely an investment.  I'm not good with one or two of anything, I need all the options (or at least a goodly amount) to best be creative.  About 30 years ago (ahem, I was 5 at the time - grin) I did buy a 120 piece Berol Prismacolor marker set.  While there have been a few casualties over the years, most of the set is still in good working order.  I am definitely out of practice but wanted to play with them today as I was working on a card for the challenge at ColourQ.


My goal was to play with the markers so I stamped the floral image on a scrap of card stock and colored away.  Since it was a scrap I had to fussy cut the flowers out.  Holy cats, a little tricky around the fine stems of the blue flowers.  I fussed with layout and sentiment.  I added some very pale blue splatter behind the flower image but resisted the temptation to add additional elements.  I'm very happy with this vibrant and CAS card.



Happy Stamping,
Dana

8 comments:

  1. Your card is vibrant and stunning. Perfectly colored and I just love the CAS design. Thanks so much for playing along at ColourQ this week.

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    1. Thank you so much Joyce! I'm so pleased you stopped in and left such kind comments.

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  2. WOW! WOW! WOW! Who needs Copics when you can color like this with with Prisma pens! Are they REALLY 30+ years old? That's incredible! Gorgeous card - so perfectly colored!

    DH and I are off to New Zealand on Tuesday morning so will be out of touch for about 3 weeks...unless I find some free Wifi and a bit of free time to catch up with all my blogging buddies! Talk at cha later pal!

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    1. It was scary when I did the math - yes, 30+ years old.

      Oh WOW Geri, New Zealand! Sounds like an amazing 3 weeks. Have a fabulous time - safe travels!

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  3. What a great job you did Dana. Your flowers look beautiful and you must have a very steady hand. That's some super fussy cutting. Barbxx

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    1. Thank you so much Barb. It a was some tricky cutting :)

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  4. Amazing those markers still have such vibrant colors after all that time! Your flowers are absolutely gorgeous and hats off to you for the awesome job fussy cutting! Thanks for playing along with us at colourQ!

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    1. Thanks so much Jen! It was such a fun challenge to play along with, especially playing with the ol' markers.

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