Rosalind's Gift - Sheepski Designs, alcohol marker

February is a month of love and friendship, hearts and flowers, and also my birthday month. For February, the theme for the Sheepski Design challenge blog is Hearts and/or Flowers. My inspiration project features Rosalind's Gift, one of the freebie's available in the Facebook Group.

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Putting It Together

I'm getting better with alcohol markers! Or at least I am not hating my colouring with them now. I still have a long way to go, but I finally broke through to understand them more. Jamie's classes at Sweet Sentiment helped a lot. I started with Kit and Clowder's classes and they did help, but Jamie's classes was a mental unlock for me. Kit and Clowder gave me the mental unlock for coloured pencils. I'm not an expert in any of these, but I am getting better at them :)

I used Copic markers to colour Rosalind and the dragonfly giving her a gift. I had a 'blop' of green marker leak on her leg but was able to calmly fix it enough that I didn't throw her away and then mostly covered it with a flower on the card.

I had in mind putting the fairy and her friend in a garden. I looked through my stash and these sang to me, both paper and flowers from Prima Marketing.

I trimmed the patterned paper and distressed the edges and matted it with some Stampin' Up paper. I die-cut a sentiment from glittery cardstock and added Nuvo Aqua Shimmer to the wings of both for a bit of sparkle. I also added metallic gel pen to her necklace. I used a kraft cardbase because it felt right with the colours giving a more muted backing.

Inside, I used another sheet from the same paper pad leaving it blank for a personal sentiment.

Supplies

Challenges

Simon Says Stamp Monday: All Loved Up
Outlawz Saturday Paper ala Mode: Valentines
Pearly Sparkles: Include Some Red
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper: Anything Goes
Through the Craftroom Door: Anything Goes