Belted Kingfisher

Belted Kingfisher

Friday, January 20, 2012

A favourite image

Hello Everyone! Welcome to another Bellariffic friday challenge.  This weeks challenge was to ink up one of your favourite images.  Well, I had a very hard time deciding which image was my favourite.
There are so many from the Uptown Girls, stella's, bella's, green bean babies, and my list goes on.
So to make my decision on what to do I tried to narrow it down -  since I love flowers and love the pixie images, I pulled out an image that has never seen ink yet! (and I have lots of those!).
This is Patsy Pixie. Isn't she adorable peeking through the bouquet of flowers?


As always, I stamped her on Bella's bestest white paper using black memento ink and then coloured her using prismacolour pencils and blended with gamsol.  I based my colours on a piece of Basic Grey - Kissing Booth.  So pretty, love the little flowers on it.  I then trimmed around the image and used a corner rounder for my top 2 corners.  Did the  same with the pink and yellow card stock.  I sponged versamagic thatched straw, and then with some  distress ink - scattered straw around the image.

The white strip behind the image is cut using a Cheery Lynn die.  All of these dies are so detailed and intricate, I think by far one of my fav companies for this type of die.

Finished off with some stitching, glossy accents on the center of the daisy's and on the little stamens, and glitter on the some of the pink flowers.

Next week's challenge is another sketch. Our multi-talented Ebruabella has designed 25 great sketches for us for the upcoming year - whoohoo Ebru!! For all you sketch lovers, looks like we will be doing a sketch every other week.  So here is next weeks sketch.  Be sure to email Emily your card by thursday night. If you would like to post it on SCS be sure to use the keyword BELLARIFFIC0212.  
Have a good weekend, see you soon.  Thanks for peeking in today!

7 comments:

Christine L said...

Such a beautiful card with fabulous colours/colouring! I love it and I just had to buy the papers straight away!
Hugs
Christine x

Ebru Vatansever said...

Oh my Gosh Girlfriend this card is drop dead gorgeous. I love the colours the paper and your colouring is just out of this world. Seeing those love pinks and yellows just warmed me right up, need to be warm cause the weather is getting pretty bad. Stay warm my friend and have a great weekend !!

Leslie said...

OMGoodness this is beautiful!! So soft and sweet and girly! Loving the colours and the paper you chose and loving that die - looks like a lace doily! Off to google it!

Gabriela said...

Oh Pauline - your card has me swooning. It's calling my name? Can you hear it? I just love it.

paula tracy williamson said...

grrr. guess who doesn't have 'kissing booth' yet. But I am totally fine with it with this FREAKIN' STUNNING creation. Pauline you have nailed springtime down with this and just in time. I am freezing here, to the east of you. hehe :)

Robin McK said...

Pauline, this card is adorable! I always have problems sewing around a curve - good for you! Beautiful, and I love that image too :-)

Crafty Cath said...

Everytime I see this image colored...I likey but this time I lovey! Love how you paired the flower garden paper with the flower garden image! They were made for each other. I'm green with envy here though cuz I couldn't find Kissing Booth in stock online and I have no where to buy it locally. Hmpf!