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Friday, August 10, 2012

Get Well Blues

 

This week at Just Add Ink the challenge is to Just Add Blue and Bling.

I decided to use my new stamp set Bordering on Romance and try colouring it with Stampin Up markers and a blender pen on watercolour paper. I’ve never tried that technique before.

I actually don’t have many markers and I wanted 3 blues.  The strange thing is that I do have my most favourite SU blues in a marker (Baja and NQN) and yet amazingly I decided to try some different blues for a change.  I must have been in a daring mood that day!!!

Anyway I used bashful blue, pacific point and night of navy.  I don’t think I have ever made a card with night of navy before and I’m not real sure about pacific point either actually.  But the gamble paid off, I love how this card turned out.

 

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Ingredients :

Stamps : Bordering on Romance, Perfectly Penned

Card : night of navy, vanilla, subtles dsp stack, watercolour paper

Ink : stazon, crumb cake, markers (night of navy, bashful blue, pacific point, celery, olive)

Other : bashful blue taffeta ribbon (ret.) rhinestones, big shot, labels framelit, blender pen

 

These blues could never replace my favourites but I should use them more often because they’re beautiful too!  I hope you’ll take a look at what the rest of the JAI team came up with this week.  Join us and make a card with your favourite blues, or like me, try some blues you’ve been neglecting.

 

Kathy

10 comments:

  1. Kathy, this is gorgeous!!!!! You are my brayering and coloring idol. :)

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  2. Kathy you are right these blues look fab together!!! Such a pretty card :)

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  3. Beautifully done Kathy, such lovely shades of blue and wonderful colouring as usual.xxx

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  4. Kathy this is a fabulous card and your leap of faith, so to speak, in playing with different colours than usual definitely paid of for you...lovely flowers.

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  5. The striking contrasts of blue really give this so much depth Kathy! Great colouring of the flowers! and I love how you arranged the flowers and sentiment together on the die cut.
    x

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  6. Your colouring is absolutely beautiful Kathy - I can't believe you haven't coloured like this before, you would never know this was your first time! Just beautiful!

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  7. Absolutely beautiful Kathy. Love love love this!

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  8. Lovely colouring Kathy...that Pacific Point really pops!

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  9. This is really lovely, Kathy. Those blues really make the flower pop off the page!

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  10. Great card! The blue flowers are very striking.

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