Gold and Cream Wedding Card

Isn't it always the way? I've been waiting for ages for a wedding so I can make a nice card and it happens right when I have my craft room all packed up ready to move house!

Luckily I managed to find a box with a few left over bits and pieces and have come up with this card entirely from scrap.

The concertina heart was a left over from my Christmas cards and the rest were bits and pieces left over from other cards. The embossed paper was a piece from a wedding card I made a few years back and although it's not clear, the gold piece of paper is also lightly embossed with a satin finish...also a scrap I found in the same box as the cream embossed paper. The remaining embellishments were scraped together from a small box of odds and ends in the same box - a couple of leafy twigs, a cream rose, a jewelled pin I had made as an experiment a while back and a couple of bread dough embellishments that were already sprayed gold. Not hugely imaginative, but it ended up looking somewhat decent in the end.

It'll still be a while before we move so it may be a few months before I'm able to keep my blog up to date.

Flannel Flowers and wattle

This card was coloured using Prismacolour pencils and Zest-it and the olive filligree layer is a Spellbinders design. Again, I found it much easier to control prismacolours than using copic pens. I think that copics are really not for me as I don't seem to be able to control the application of colour for the effects I want. Other seem to manage well with copics but art is a very personal thing and what technique works for one doesn't always work well for another.  I've now purchased a small device that will change them to an airbrush so the pens don't go to waste, but I do wish I'd discovered Prismacolours and Zest it before I'd invested in the pens!

Baby Boy Card

Another baby boy I needed to make a card for. This one I coloured using copics for the hair and blue, but prismacolour pencils and zest-it for the skin tones. The skin looks patchy in this photo but it isn't like that in real life. The photo was a bit dark and I used an auto equaliser to brighten it which I think has caused the patchiness seen in this image.

Same issue as last time - using an autoequaliser makes the contrast between the shading and main colour stand out and look patchy. I had some design block with this card. I coloured the image and then couldn't decide what to do with it. So i did what I normally do for inspiration - hit Pinterest. I love looking at all the lovely cards and papercraft ideas there. The only downside is I can waste vast amounts of time browsing!

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