Wednesday 3 August 2011

Color Me Creative meets CAS-ual Fridays!

Hi there everyone!

I hope you won't be too sick of me this week! I have another post scheduled for tomorrow and possibly Saturday too!



Today's card is all about clean and simple. I saw a fun challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays where the sponsor is Lawn Fawn. Well you all know I'm a HUGE fan of Lawn Fawn so I just had to play along.  The challenge is to create a card 4 x 9 leaving as much white space as possible, ooh la la, that's a toughie!


When I first started colouring I thought of Copics just for bigger projects like large coloured images etc, but they work just as well for these little ones too. I coloured my flowers using the 'rule of three' technique, which is just a dark, a medium and a light colour. I varied the little flowers, then added some dots with my white uniball pen and added some enamel accents to the centre. That enamel accents takes a bit of practice doesn't it! I had the pot in one hand, a pin in the other, and a piece of card to scrape off mistakes next to me. I learnt that the secret is to push the 'nib' into the centre of the circle and then lift, that seemed to make a better 'pearl', for me anyway!

I've been wanting to try the hand drawn frame shown by Nichole Heady over at Papertrey Ink, so gave it a go. It still looked a bit too much white space for me so I added a few bits of faux hand stitching and some pearls to finish off. I know who this card is going to, a friend of mine who is always really generous. She's been owed a little thank you for a while.

We still have a fun challenge running over at  Color Me Creative's beautiful colours, aqua, red and white/cream, they look so fresh.  So grab those Copics and join in the fun, even if it's only to colour in tiny little flowers like me!



6 comments:

  1. Oh this is so sweet, I just adore the CAS design Ruby. The squiggles in the border are a neat idea too :)
    Jenny x

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  2. I adore this! Love the great border designs and those sweet flowers.

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  3. Yay! I'm so glad you're here :) So I have to tell you, the robot card you sent to me was the inspiration for this challenge :) I love that card and I love this card too-such a great border! Glad you had some fun with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  4. SUPER duper cute--love those flowers and all that white space! Great card--you rocked this oversized card! LOVE:)

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  5. Hey Ruby! Your CAS card is fab, love all that white space and those three little flowers with the frame look fabulous :) Thanks for playing this week at CAS-ual Fridays :)

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  6. LOVE this, especially that frame! And what a great use of white space!

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