There's a whopper of a prize up for grabs at the Play Date Cafe, so I wanted to make sure I played along this week. Also, I love this week's color combination of white-melon-green.
I thought the Hero Arts Dogwood would look lovely in Melon, however I had a heck of a time getting the green i wanted on the leaves.
I bought some cheaper colored pencils thinking a pencil is a pencil ... but I've learned that is not always true. Sometimes the pencil quality doesn't matter ... but sometimes, like with this, I really needed the thicker coverage and richer hue of a Prismacolor or higher quality pencil, and I didn't have the right color. The cheaper pencils just wouldn't give me the depth of color I needed.
I finally painted on some chalk ink, which ended up a bit muddier than I hoped, but the color is closer to what I needed.
The sketch is this week's Unscripted Sketch.
The sentiment is very vintage Basic Grey (made when they were still part of K&Company).
Great card. Love the flowers and WOW the colours look fab on them well done. Thanks for playing with Unscripted this week.
Posted by: Gardenia | October 09, 2010 at 11:13 PM
Stunning card, the colouring is superb.
Posted by: Nigel | October 10, 2010 at 06:16 AM
What a gorgeous card - love those flowers and your coloring! Thanks for playing at Unscripted Sketches!
Posted by: Debbie Standard | October 10, 2010 at 03:44 PM
This is so nice! I really love that color combo and the flowers are so pretty. So neat you used the Unscripted sketch for your design.
Posted by: Linda Beeson | October 10, 2010 at 09:49 PM
Those flowers are gorgeous and you have coloured them beautifully...very effective
Sue xx
Posted by: Sue Allan | October 11, 2010 at 03:11 AM
you are so right, not all pencils are equal!! thanks for playing along in the cafe with this beautifully coloured piece :)
Posted by: Sarah Anderson | October 11, 2010 at 02:34 PM
Just beautiful! I love the flowers and you did such a wonderful job coloring. Thanks for playing along with US this week.
Posted by: Marcy | October 11, 2010 at 06:22 PM
A very lovely card! The coloring is very soft...so pretty!
Posted by: Maria | October 11, 2010 at 09:14 PM
Wonderfully vibrant and gorgeous image! Love that the focal piece is almost the whole card because it is just darling! Thanks for playing along with us at the Play Date Cafe!
Posted by: Andrea Ewen | October 11, 2010 at 09:45 PM
Now there is a box today for me to leave a comment! I am so sorry about all the other days!! EH!
I love how you stacked the flower image on two solid colored papers! CLEVER--love how you colored the flowers:) BEAUTIFULLY done!! Love visiting here, Stephanie:) Thanks for joining in the fun and playing along with us at the PDCC:)
Posted by: Sav O'G | October 12, 2010 at 11:27 AM
WOW! This is fabulous - such a show stopper. Excellent job. THanks for creating along with us at Unscripted this week.
Posted by: Angy | October 13, 2010 at 02:11 AM
Love those pink dogwoods - so pretty! Thanks so much for joining us this week at Unscripted Sketches, and don't forget to join us this coming Saturday for our Breast Cancer Awareness Blog Hop! Becky G.
Posted by: Becky G. | October 14, 2010 at 09:13 AM