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Saturday 5 February 2011

Papertake Weekly at The Sugar Bowl with Copic Creations.

Ever since my birthday, when I received her, I have been just itching to ink up this Sassy little Pillow Talk beauty by Sugar Nellie from Funky Kits.   The Sugar Bowl has a "sketch" and a "love" theme but it doesn't have to be romantic love.  
I used ONLY copics to colour my image because Copic Creations want us to use "cool colours" and I liked the idea of using just blues and greens.  Thank heavens my new E00 refill arrived this morning.  My main skin colour pen ran out yesterday halfway through Tilda's face!  Panic!
I struggle with hair at the best of times so I spent ages and ages on this and I have to say that I'm pleased with the result. A more experienced colourist would undoubtedly really enjoy colouring in all the individual strands.
The main background DP is DCWV.  I'm afraid I'm not sure what the vertical  piece is - it came out of my scrap drawer - and it didn't have quite the right colour stripes so I coloured in some of them myself with the same Copics I had used on the image.   The Sugar Bowl sketch included a butterfly wings motif behind the main image and I really struggled with what to use to represent this.  In the end I popped a few "Got Flowers" from Prisma down each side, added some gems to their centres and some "leaves" (from a Lily punch).  The flowers, together with the floral DP, made my card suitable for Papertake Weekly who have an "anything goes" theme with "flowers".
I added a bit of Craft Works candy for the finishing touch and the sentiment is by TPC Studio.

10 comments:

Vicky said...

WOW WOW WOW.....this is bleeding awesome hun I love the sentiment its what I think every day. Your SS image is gorgeous & the time you spent on her hair let me tell ya it was worth it cus it looks amazing hun.....exsquisite!!!

Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx

♥Gemma♥ said...

Hiya Lesley

All i can say is Love it! Love it! Love it!

hugs and xxx

Jane Wetzel said...

Beautiful card and great cool colors for the challenge! Love it! glad u played with us at copic creations!

Inger Harding said...

Such a beautiful card Lesley!!!!
Love your coloring and the colours you have used, so pretty!!!
Have a lovely sunday :)

♥ Hugs, Inger

Unknown said...

Wauw, like your card very much. Lovely colours!!
Hugs Ageeth x

Julie said...

Beautiful!! Love your colour combo here - and love all your embellishing!! Super card, Juliexx

Heather said...

Hi Lesley, stunning card, love your colours and papers, fabulous colouring of the gorgeous Sassy girl and lovely detailing.

So glad you could join us at Copic Creations,
hugs Heather xx

Sharon Caudle said...

Hi Lesley! Your card is beautiful! I love that image and the sentiment is perfect! I can almost hear her saying it. :) Thanks so much for joining us at Papertake Weekly and hope you join us again!
hugs, Sharon

Elaine said...

Fabulous Lesley.
Your colouring is beautiful and her hair is fantastic (I do struggle with hair more than anything )
Love the blues and greens, another of my fave colour combos.

Thanks for playing in the Sugar Bowl Challenge.

Love Elaine xx

Alex said...

Another stunner by my oh-so-talented friend Lesley! Gorgeous colour work and I love the colours you have chosen, Aqua blue/green is my favourite!
Love, Alex