Reading Adventure Card

Sketch Saturday has a fun new sketch up today--#510! The sponsor this week is Star Stampz! I absolutely loved this adorable stamp--even though its not the best for a card. And I REALLY couldn't make it small enough for an A2 card. I ended up making a 5 1/2 x 6 inch card, and even making it bigger I still had to use Prismacolor Pencils as my medium since I can sharpen those down real fine.

I  used a ribbon in-place of the small strip on the left of the sketch, 3 Nuvo drops instead of the stitching, and decided to not include a sentiment.












 I used a whole slew of colored pencils, there's no way I could list them all! On the larger areas--anywhere that had enough space that I could do, I used Gamsol to blend the colors. I also added some yellow Wink of Stella on the Elf's hair; Gel-roll on the eyes of the elf and the bunny, and a micron pen for her glasses and for the 2 birds. I also used a red micron pen for the berries on the bush, and a white uni-ball on the elf's wings.






I left the inside of the card blank so I can add a specific sentiment later if I'd like, or just leave it blank.

Be sure to head over to Sketch Saturday Challenge Blog to see all the other lovely cards!

Bee-utiful Spring Card

It's time for a Sketch Saturday Challenge again!! Sketch #508 was super simple for me, and I love the way it turned out, using this adorable image from Kitty Bee Designs.

As you can see, my final design matches almost exactly with the sketch! I only moved the flowers a teensy bit for better aesthetics on my card.

 

I colored the image with Copic markers:
Face: Y17, Y15, & Y21
Yellow stripes: Y17 & y15
Black cap and Stripes: C7, C5 & C3
Wings: N1 & N0 (Plus some Wink of Stella)

Flower Center: YR23, YR27& YR 21
Petals: No & blender

Outline/Shadow: B000

The base mat is a charcoal grey generic card stock from Hobby Lobby--and is the same one I used for the scallopped circle. The black stripe in the middle is from a scrap of black card stock, probably also from Hobby Lobby! The Yellow hexagon piece is a Recollections, and actually was a only 3 3/4 inches rather than the 4 that I needed, so I cut it down the middle and was able to cover that with the black strip--Viola!!

The flowers are all just from my stash--probably from Hobby Lobby or Michaels.

The base was, as usual, printed on my HP with the simple sentiment You are BEE-Utiful, to help send some bright, happy cheer with this bright happy bee!

 I'm so happy that you choose to visit today! Please head over to the Sketch Saturday design blog to see the inspiration from the other lovely DT members, and enter to win a digi from our lovely Sponsor Kitty Bee Designs!