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Tuesday 27 January 2015

Passion for ProMarkers Blog Challenge week 281 - Garden Life

Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you are all well and enjoyed the weekend. I've very nearly organised my crudy! There are just a few hot spots that need tidying up and the floor to vacuum but I'm very pleased with how it's turned out, most things now have a designated home which makes tidying up after a crafting session a lot easier and I even have a few box files, boxes and baskets empty ready for new purchases. It isn't perfect but as near to a workable system that I can get in the space available, ideally I should have a stash purge and get rid of things I haven't used for a while but I gave quite a bit of stuff away just before Christmas and I'm reluctant to do so again just a month later. Like most things in life it's a 'work in progress' and I'm sure it won't stay this way for long.

As you probably know Tuesdays are when the new challenge is announced on Passion for ProMarkers and this week's theme is "Garden Life", I may enter this challenge a few times as I have quite a few floral and gardening themed stamps. My first offering is an old stamp set (004) from Kanban and features a rose bush. This stamp set was a real favourite of mine a few years ago but as I've got more stamp sets it's fallen out of favour. I thought this week's challenge was an excellent reason to start using it again. I stamped the image out three times and coloured it in using ProMarkers (Poppy and Crimson for the roses, Holly and Pine for the leaves with a smidgen of Sandstone for the stems). Once coloured I fussy cut out some leaves, the large bloom rose, the inner part of the largest rose and a fully opened smaller rose and went round the cut areas with the crimson or Pine  ProMarker depending on which component it was, to stop them looking so raw. I shaped them slightly with a bone folder. I decoupaged the largest rose using different thicknesses of sticky foam pads and added sticky pads to the single layer rose and the leaves and layered these over the matching flat images on the main panel. I added the large rose last as I wanted it to be above the leaves.



I layered the card panel to black card stock then matted that onto black holographic card stock using tape runner. I cut an A4 sheet of Acetate to slightly wider than my layered panel and scored both sides so that the central part of the acetate was a few millimetres larger than the card panel. I added red liner tape to both flaps and stuck them to the back of the card which causes the acetate to bow outwards. I added a 3D butterfly to the upper right hand side of the acetate dome.






I haven't mounted this onto a card blank yet as I'm not sure how I want to present it, I might just add a panel of white card to the back to write on as the bow of the dome means it already stands up to be put on display without a card blank.

Click here for this week's challenge: promarkerchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/week-281garden-life.html
I hope you like my latest creation, I will add another post if I make any more Garden Life inspired cards. As always if you have any comments or questions please use the box below or the comments form on the side bar, until next time - keep crafting!

Love and crafty hugs,

Sarah xxx

10 comments:

  1. Lovely roses.
    Thanks for joining my 'Garden Life' challenge at Passion for Promarkers this week and Good Luck.
    Lorraine x

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    1. Thank you Lorraine, I've really enjoyed your challenge - it's been a great excuse to get out some of my older stamp sets. Crafty hugs, Sarah xx

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  2. Beautiful and much appreciated that this wasn't easy and probably something I couldn't do myself - since I always get lost if I've large areas and deep colours.

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    1. Thank you Huny, that means a lot to me because although I love colouring with ProMarkers I often feel very inadequate when it comes to shading and highlighting. There are so many talented people out there that make my efforts seem very poor indeed (especially hair - I can't get my head round it! lol) so when a fellow crafter leaves such a lovely comment it makes me feel as though I'm improving. Big crafty hugs, Sarah xxx

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  3. This is gorgeous Sarah. The roses are gorgeous, you have coloured them so beautifully and your design looks so effective.
    Thank you so much for taking part in the Passion for Promarkers Challenge this week.
    Sue xx

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    1. Thank you so much Sue, I really appreciate your kind words. I'm really enjoying doing the Passion for Promarkers Challenges, seeing the design teams cards and all the other entries has spurred me on to practice my colouring techniques so having you say such lovely things makes me very happy :). Big crafty hugs Sarah xxx

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  4. Oh, how pretty! Those roses are gorgeous!!! LOVE the addition of the butterfly, too! So elegant! HUGS! :) Mynn xx

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    1. Thank you so much Mynn, that's really kind of you to say. The domed acetate is a great way to display additional embellishments like this butterfly so I'll be using this technique again. I'm glad you like it. Crafty hugs, Sarah xx

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  5. Beautiful card Sarah, the rose image is beautiful which really pops with the added depth of layering. Many thanks for joining in with us this week at Passion for Promarkers :) Donna ♥ x

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    1. Thank you Donna. I really appreciate your kind comments, I'm thinking about using this image for my Mothering Sunday cards this year. I'd forgotten how pretty it actually is. Crafty hugs, Sarah x

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Sarah xxx