Anniversary, Wedding, and Love

Kim is hosting Stampotique Designers Challenge this week and her challenge theme is Anniversary, Wedding, and Love. Here's what she has to say about her challenge!

"It's Kim and I'm excited to be hosting this weeks challenge.  June here in the states is often a time of many anniversaries and weddings and so I challenge you to create with an Anniversary, Wedding or Love theme.

While you all are busy creating, I'll be celebrating with the love of my life our 18th anniversary so can't wait to see what you all come up with.  Have fun and hope you love every minute creating!"

If you'd like the chance to win $30 worth of Stampotique stamps, you should play along. Visit Stampotique Designers Challenge blog and be sure to read the rules, so that you'll have the chance to win a great prize!!!

Here's my card.

I recently purchased a set of Faber Castell's Polychromos colored pencils and brought them and some stamps, papers, and digi images out to my mom's house so that I could be productive and try them out while my mom was resting. This scene is my first try using them and I am moderately pleased with the result.

Stampotique's Henny Penny and Rooty Toot (both stamps are by Kira Nichols) are clearly besotted with each other. They were stamped using Jet Black Archival ink and colored with Polychromos pencils. When I color with Prismacolor pencils, I usually use a citrus based paint thinner as a blending agent. However, the thinner smudged the image, so I didn't blend the colored pencils at all. I don't know if the ink or paper was at fault, but since I didn't have my gazillion trillion billion black inks as back up, I just went with the flow.

I digressed. I bet you're shocked, though you probably really ARE shocked that I didn't use Copic markers to color the image. I know I am.

Oops. Digressed again. Bad me. When I got back home to Kathi's Kraft Kave, I added the sky background with chalk pencils, then "carded" the colored image using a sketch from Sunday Stamps. Sketches make life easy and I'm lazy. I had already chosen French Country 6x6 pad for my patterned paper, so it was just a matter of cutting, die-cutting, and layering. Gotta love that. I used dies from The Fishtail Stack and from a Blueprints set by Die-Namics. I didn't add a sentiment because I wasn't sure of the occasion and/or recipient of the card. I added a little clear plastic adhesive heart to finish the card.

Here's the sketch.

I shall enter this card in the following challenges:

• Sunday Stamps Challenge #78: Sketch

• Simon Says Monday Challenges: I ought to do this more (Yeah! I will!)

• Dragonfly Challenge #6: Anything with wings

• Fashionable Stamping Challenge #75: The Birds and the Bees

• Stamping Sensations: Animal Antics