Hi Everyone. Happy Sunday.
It's the fabulous Laurie's turn to host our Paper Players Challenge this week and she has a great sketch for us:
I decided that I wanted to play with texture on the two background pieces and pulled out some Altenew woodgrain papers that I got quite a while ago. The one at the bottom is a much lighter weight than the vanilla one at the bottom. I know that the set I used is called Spring Daisy, but I thought it would work really well to color it with fall colors and the woodgrain seemed to work well with the fall theme.
I began by stamping an "amlost no-line" daisy in a medium yellow. I wanted a slightly darker outline rather than the traditional no-line look. I then took out my Prismacolor pencils and set to work. It took quite a while to get the colors and shading exactly as I wanted them on the flower. I used a variety of yellows, browns and oranges to get the color and shading that I wanted. I used multiple browns on the seedhead to add more texture. Here's a closeup of the coloring:
I then stamped the leaves and colored those. I die-cut the flowers and the leaves and mounted them onto the base of the card. The flower was mounted with foam squares and the leaves were adhered with glue.All that was left was to add my sentiment.
Here's my finished card:
Isn't that texture from the paper fabulous? The brown card stock is heavy weight so makes a great card base, the vanilla is very light weight, so it was easy to add a piece to the bottom of the brown cardstock without adding too much bulk.
I hope you will join us and play along with Laurie's fabulous sketch. As always, if you are looking for some inspiration, you have to look no further than the amazing cards from our design team:
On a personal note:
It has been a very long and exhausting week this week and I had intended to put up a post last Monday along with some blog candy. If everything settles down today, then I should be able to do that tomorrow – a week later than planned! In the meantime, warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight and I hope that all my readers in Texas are safe and not affected by Hurricane Harvey.
Hugs
Jaydee
Card recipe:
- Cardstock: Altenew woodgrain
- Stamp: Altenew Spring Daisy
- Inks: Altenew. Prismacolor Pencils
15 Responses
Exquisite colouring Jaydee on the flower and I just love the textured background. I hope you are on course for a calmer week this week!
Beautiful card. Love the woodgrain paper and your colored daisy is so pretty.
Wow, this big daisy is beautiful, Jaydee! So much detail and your coloring is just perfect. The woodgrain adds just the right amount of texture. Awesome take on the sketch!
Absolutely gorgeous.
You’re colouring is amazing, I thought you’d cut a picture from a piece of wrapping paper, it’s so beautiful.
Oh my, Jaydee! Your layered coloring is fabulousness! The shading you’ve achieved on the flower and the leaves is amazing. I adore the wood grain textured paper too. Hope things settle down for you this week, my friend!
WOw! How pretty. Can you explain how to stamp “almost no-line”? Is it that you use an unexpectedly lighter stamp pad colour, or is it a certain type of stamp?
Anyways, your colouring is beautiful, you are so talented.
Prayers for Texas.
This just turned out so beautiful! I love the texture you achieved. So pretty.
Have a great day!
This is just stunning! That daisy looks as fresh as a….daisy! I had to say it! The wood texture gives your card such a rustic, organic feel too! LOVE it!
Oh wow! Your colouring is divine! The flower centre looks soooo 3D and the petals like they’re real. Just beautiful work, Jaydee. Beautiful.
Gorgeous card Jaydee; clean, simple and Beautiful. You captured all them little details of the sunflower in your coloring.
Love that textured CS by the way.
Have an enjoyable day
What a fabulous card! That sunflower is just gorgeous and I love the woodgrain background!
Jaydee, I LOVE this gorgeous card! The wood grained papers are perfect to showcase your lovely sunflower! I wonder if I bought the Prisma pencils, I could color life you? Your coloring is amazing! I hope your week is better, My Friend! So much devastation in Texas. My heart is heavy! XXX
Beautiful coloring and that woodgrain paper is gorgeous. Lots of texture happening on this card!
This is gorgeous! LOVE the two colours in the back with this stunning sunflower!
Just beautiful Jaydee! The flower is gorgeous and I love your pretty coloring. The brown paper really makes it look like fall with your sunflower. I can’t believe summer is coming to an end already!