I had originally made this card for a DT project for Sweet Stampin's "Girly" challenge but felt it was too dark somehow to be girly. I'm still not sure whether the flowers are too much, but I enjoyed colouring this image so much that I thought I'd share it anyway.
The image is, of course one of Krista's finest and I just loved colouring her. I usually struggle a bit with SC images because I'm not great with long hair, but this style worked a treat for me. I mostly used my Copics but I also went over the hair with a dark brown Prisma pencil. It took AGES! The dark red Copics tend to bleed quite easily, I find, so I had to keep going back to my colouring after leaving the ink to dry for a while. I added glitter to her bodice and gloves (as if the flowers weren't enough!) and used a glitter pen on the beads in her hair.
The paper is by Magnolia and I added a Doohickey doily; there really wasn't much room for anything else. The ribbon towards the lower edge of the card was in my stash but I think it had once been on a box of chocolates. The edges of the card were made with one of my latest toys, the beautiful Cheery Lynn "Lady Kate" border - I just love this, it really is so pretty. Finally, the flowers - they're a mixture of Wild Orchid Crafts/Ribbon Girl and I just went a bit OTT with them!
I'm going to enter this card in the following challenges:
The Ribbon Girl - Use Flowers
Papertake Weekly - Bingo (Blooms, die cuts, glitter)
Hugs
Tracey x