My inspiration piece for guest designer for July

Hello everyone! Hope you are enjoying your summer so far. This past month I had the opportunity to be a guest designer for Faery Ink. It was a wonderful experience as you can see from the posts prior to this. I do hope in the future I could become a permanent member of this super talented group of designers and the chance to work with the artist behind Faery Ink, Amanda Bryon.

The new release for July that I designed an inspiration for is named "Lahla Lady Drake". I was going for a Game of Thrones look in the way of colors and feel to the card. I hope you get that sense when you see the card. I am going to show you the card before I go into detail of it.

 

  

The size of the card is a 6x6 with ivory card stock as the base. Maroon and black card stock are layered on the card from with the maroon sheets distressed and left ragged. I then dry embossed two pieces of an eggshell white card stock with a brick embossing plate from Darice. I added color to the brick with Tim Holtz Distressed Ink in Pumice Stone and Weathered Wood. And believe it or not the rest of the stone coloring was then achieved using a cheap eye shadow pallet set, I just used a paint brush and rubbed it into the paper. I like the end result for the coloring of the bricks. What do you think? I then made 2x2 squares with the brick sheets, rounded two corners of each. They were then mounted on slightly larger gray squares which also had two rounded corners. The squares are then mounted with foam pieces to the card front with a pointed corner of each one facing in.


Lahla Lady Drake is colored with colored pencils and blended using baby oil. The picture does not do the coloring in her cape or skirt justice. I will take close ups of them and add it below. She is sissy cut out and attached to the card using foam squares.  Before adding her to the card I added a black sheer ribbon to the card front around the middle of it. I also attached a double looped bow with rhinestones to complete the card front.

Beach babe, Beach balls and waves

Hi everyone! I hope you are enjoying your summer so far. I am so excited to share with you my first post as a guest designer for the month of July with Faery Ink. First off I would love to take the opportunity to thank Amanda for creating such awesome images for us to use.


So for the month of July at the Faery Ink Facebook Group the challenge is Fun in the Sun. We could choose any summer themed image for our finished project. My first idea when I seen this challenge is I want to do a circle card and make it look like a beach ball. Ha yep the beach ball was a bit harder than I thought of course I was over thinking it but the base got done. The image I decided to work with was Beach ball Arielle, she is to adorable. Here is the finished piece and I will give you some information about it below. 

Arielle was colored with my mix of different colored pencils, the brands that are in my mix are Prang, Prismacolor, Artist's Loft and Design Spectracolor.
The card base is made with two circle card stocks from Recollections, with the three sections of the ball done with yellow, pink and teal card stock.
The waves are from a pack of stickers I found by Recollections.
The statement that I used is from a Unity Stamp Set called Hello Summer. I stamped it in Tim Holtz Distressed ink in Evergreen Bough with the edges done with Spun Sugar and Scattered Straw.
I also used Ranger glossy accents on the sun glass's lens to make the shiny.  

I so love the whole look of this card and plan on doing this one again with a few different hair and bikini colors. Comment below if you would like to see any color combos. 

Be on the lookout for two more posts for the other inspirational pieces I completed this month. Thanks for stopping by and I appreciate any comments.