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.
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