This card is for this week’s Try a New Technique Challenge
on Splitcoaststampers.com.
Here is the finished card
After stamping the sentiment onto a piece of Fun Stamper’s
Journey Whip Cream cardstock, I drew the
border lightly with a #2 pencil & masked it off using blue painter’s
tape. I stamped the flamingo first &
colored it. I masked the image before stamping
the tree trunk & palm fronds. I
drew the coconuts using different colored markers to add shading. Once that was done, I colored in the palm
fronds and tree trunk.
Once that was done, I carefully peeled off the painter’s
tape & stamped the three flowers & leaves on the right side above the
sentiment. Then I went over the pencil
marks with a marker to create the border & erased the remaining marks that
were inside the flower petals. I water
colored the sand and sky with marker ink & my watercolor pen.
Ugh, I did not like this card after all that work! The left side of the bordered area was empty
and I didn’t like how the flowers looked. So, I stamped five more flowers & eight
leaves on a piece of scrap cardstock, water colored them, then fussy cut them
out. After that was done, I glued them onto the card & added a bit of
glimmer to the yellow centers & sentiment using Sakura gold & clear
glitter pens.
When I was happy with the card front, I trimmed it down to 4”
x 5-1/4”. I layered it on top of a piece of Sweet Berry cardstock that was cut
to 4-1/8” x 5-3/8” and glued that entire piece onto a card base of Black
Licorice cardstock. (8-1/2” x 5-1/2”,
scored at 4-1/4” to create the base).
You can purchase the cardstocks and Tickled Pink (SS-0265) stamp
set on my Fun Stamper’s Journey page,
