Friday, January 27, 2012

OLW 76 colour in winter


The Challenge at one layer Wednesday is to use grey and white and a pop of colour,
This fit perfectly with a technique that has been swirling around my head for the last week. I was thinking about colouring on kraft card with pencils and how it would also work nicely on grey card using just grey and white pencils (it does, trust me)
but then I got to thinking if it would work if you created your own grey background with distress ink.

to make this card, I stamped the elephant (lili of the valley) with versafine grey ink. then masked off the area with torn post-it notes, and inked up with pumice stone distress ink. I then coloured with various grey and white pencils, with my pop of red. I finished with glossy accents on the bubbles.

10 comments:

  1. Wow this is really beautiful!! and the elephant how adorable!

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  2. Beautiful design, I love the stamp & that heart really pops.

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  3. What a fabulous card Joanne, I love the grey shading on the little ellie too and that pop of red is a real....er pop!
    Jenny x

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  4. This is amazing Joanne! What a great technique. And an adorable stamp.

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  5. Totally cute! Love the torn look of the color block!

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  6. He's stinkin' cute and I love your clever technique!

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  7. Wow, the techniques you used here all worked so perfectly together. That little elly is adorable and the red heart is just right.

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