April 12, 2010

Magnolia Down Under Challenge #41 & Copics

Well this week at Magnolia Down Under Challenges, was Olden Days - use Black, White and Grey colours only to colour your image and then use Colourful Vintage Papers.  So I just used my Black Soot Distress Ink and boy did it take me forever to colour this little girl on the grand piano!!  But I must say I'm pretty pleased with it all, except I don't have the shading right, as in where the light source is coming from!! Just learnt about that from a tut that Fran sent to me....  anyway I guess I'll just have to practice a bit more with that!! Also used one of the fantastic crochet flowers that my friend Mandy made especially for me!!   So here is my card:-)

Paper: SU Cardstock, Prima, Designer Paper g.c.d studios
Embellishments: Bizzy Bec's Roses, Button, Bamboo Wool, Tickled Pink Stamps Lace, Ribbon, Kaiser Pearls, Handmade Crochet Flower by Mandy (my bestie)
Stamps: Magnolia Raising the Ceiling Collection: Noble Tilda and Grand Piano, Stampin' Up
Colour: Water coloured with Black Soot Distress Ink, Walnut Stain around the edges!!

Last week, Leigh, Ruby and I went on a little holiday down to Hobart.  We had a great time! It was our first family holiday together....  I really liked checking out some of the Local Scrapbooking shops down there (there is 3 - wowzers) and in one of them I found some Copics, I was so excited because it was the first time that I had actually seen them in real life!!  So anyway I bought some - RV10, RV13, what I thought was RV11 but is actually R11 and a blender pen.  I guess I got a bit bamboozled by it all and picked up the wrong one!!  So anyways I couldn't figure out why at first the colours were not blending like they do in all the tut's but then D'Oh..... I looked again at the pens and found that one was a different colour to the others...  Fran helped me out with a couple of other tut's about using just 2 colours which was brillant THANKS FRAN!! and thanks too for telling me about the Mad 4 Markers online shop - although Leigh thinks otherwise hehehe...  So this is what I have achieved so far - think I need a bit more practice.  They are alot harder to use than I thought, so you girls out there that use them are fantastic!!

11 comments:

  1. karen your card is beautiful! I think you have coloured Tilda Beautifully.Loving your papers and love that crochet flower!!Just Gorgeous! I love looking at your amazing work!
    xx

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  2. Oh Karen - you have done a fantastic job on your card! I love all the details and your papers are perfect. Thanks for joining MDUC this week!
    KylieK

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  3. Gorgeous card, I love colouring in black and white, it looks so effective and your colouring is amazing and your embelishments really add to that vintage feel. I am so glad the tutorials were of some help, your blending looks great! Thanks for playing along with us this week at MDUC :)

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  4. Stunning card Karen! I love those 2 images together, so cute (I should have brought some lol), Your choice of papers are divine, the lace and crochet flower add to the gorgeous vintage feel.
    hugs
    peta

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  5. I love this Tilda and piano, and you've colored them beautifully! What a gorgeous vintage-style card with beautiful details! Thank you for joining us at Magnolia Down Under!
    Hugs,
    April

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  6. Gee, I would never have thought of the pics in black & white but I can see how difficult it would be to get the colouring right on something like that using just black/grey... ekkk...
    & my flower doesn't look too shabby! If you want some of the matching thread to attach them just yell. I should have thought of that before. Plus I have a couple more flowers... lol

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  7. You've done such a beautiful job with this card - great work colouring the images. It's perfect for this challenge. Well done.

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  8. I really love what u have done here. It looks absolutely Fabulous.Great card for the MDUC, hugs xxxx

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  9. Fabulous card!!
    Thank you for joining us at Magnolia Down Under!
    Hugs, Janiel

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  10. I love your card, Tilda is adorable and coloured so wonderfully. A fabulous take on the challenge. Thanks for joining us at Magnolia Down Under this week. Hugs Jodie from Oz

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  11. This is so pretty, love the flowers and paper. Great coloring!

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