Waterchild
If you ask me what my favorite color is, more often than not my answer will be “water”. I just adore all the blues and greens that combine to make up the colors of a crystal clear ocean. My user name in several online galleries is “Waterchild12”. So it’s no surprise that the H2O monochromatic family is my absolute favorite of all the color families. I couldn’t wait to work with it, and I was certainly not disappointed.
I’ve used Oasis, a beautifully rich, heavy-weight textured cardstock, as my card base. Day at Sea is the lightest of the colors and the medium colored light-weight layer is Calypso. What great names!
My “Waterchild” (a self-portrait, maybe?) is a Ching-chou kuik Fantasy Collection image which was stamped on One Sheet Wonder and was so much fun to color with my Copic markers. Normally I will use 3 closely numbered shades from the same color family (like BG10, BG11, and BG13) when I color an image, but I wanted her outfit to appear watery with different depths of color. So I played around on some scratch paper and ending up using colors from a wider spectrum – BG10, BG23, BG49 with a little Y11 added. I like it!
(Cardstock: H2O Monochromatic Family: Day at Sea, Calypso, Oasis; Paper: One Sheet Wonder, Pocket Full of Posies mat stack (DCWV))
I added some vintage lace, ribbon, buttons, rhinestones and a Prima flower. And she’s been highlighted with some Star Dust Stickles for that watery sparkle.
I hope you like it! Until next week, have fun creating!
Broni
Today’s Challenge: Use buttons!
Rules for both of our month-long contests follow:
First, we are giving it all away! In honor of National Craft Month, we are holding a month long contest in March. The winner will receive 1 of every product in our store. That’s 291 sheets of cardstock, in every color, weight, and texture you could ever need! Here’s what you have to do to win: put our blinkie on your blog using the code available in the sidebar to the right. Leave us a comment (on this post) with a link to your blog where you posted our blinkie, and you are entered to win! That’s all there is to it! We will draw one very lucky winner on April 2nd. (if you already have our blinkie, leave us a comment and tell us that too, you are eligible to win).
Second, to celebrate National Craft Month, we are holding a month long contest here at Couture Cardstock, and your participation will determine the size of the prize! Each day during the month of March, we will be offering a challenge on our blog. Each day, you have one opportunity win a prize pack by completing that challenge and linking it to that day’s post. For every challenge entry received, we will add a sheet of cardstock to the prize pack. All entries must be posted by 11:59 pm EST the day of that challenge and the winner for each day will be selected the following morning. The minimum prize pack will be 10 sheets of your choice, the maximum depends on YOU!!
The details:
1. You may enter each challenge once (only one entry per person per day).
2. Entries must be posted in a gallery or on a personal blog, and must mention Couture Cardstock in the description.
3. You do not need to use Couture Cardstock in your entries, although we encourage you to do so.
4. Each project completed may only be used once.
5. All entries must by posted and linked to the corresponding challenge post by 11:59 pm EST, the day the challenge is posted.
6. The minimum prize pack per day will be 10 sheets of your choice.
Both contests are open to anyone, anywhere. However, International winners (outside the US) will be responsible for their own shipping costs.
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