Alicia the Rockstar...

Hello crafty peeps. I hope that you are all enjoying your weekend. 

I know that I don't normally post more than once per week, but I have some cool news to share with you. 

I posted a card on my blog a couple of weeks ago called; A little bird told me. I entered that card over at MilkCoffee's Bold and Bright challenge. Well guess what? I was picked as one of their Top 3, and won one of their cute digi images as well. 

So I thought it only fitting that I celebrate my good fortune with a card that I made using the image that I picked. 

Now this little cutie is Alicia the Rockstar

 I picked this little cutie because I have several musically talented family members. A brother that started out as a Rockstar and ended up in the recording industry, and I also have a few nieces and  nephews that could very well end up on a stage rockin' it out at some point in their lives! 

I coloured Alicia with my Copic markers after I printer her out on Neenah card stock. The DP that I used is from Recollections "All Girl" paper pad and I am really really liking them. 

The above photo was cropped close so you could see the glossy accents that I added to her guitar to make it look real. Of course there is a fare amount of bling here and there because that is what I do, and seriously what Rockstar doesn't have bling???

Anyway peeps, thanks for sharing in my excitement, I really appreciate it, and I also appreciate the fact that you take the time to stop by from time to time. 

Two shall become one...

Hello there crafty peeps! Do you love going to weddings? I know that I do, and there's no pun intended either.

  

One of the reasons I like them is I love to see what the Bride is wearing, and how she styled her hair. 

There are many different dress and hair styles because obviously there are many differing tastes. It would be pretty boring if every bride wore the same dress and hair style don't ya think? 

Now I consider myself to be a simplistic person in many areas of my life, and I think that carries over into my cards as well. I don't do frills or poofy girlie stuff. I guess you can call me a minimalist of sorts, but I do like a little bling as long as it is tasteful.

So, why I am talking about weddings? 

Well today, we have a wedding theme to the Twisted Thursday Challenge over at The Outlawz.  So we want you to make your project using whatever medium(s) you choose, just make it a wedding card, an invitation, or even a layout for your scrapbook. That's the twist!

Given that weddings are pretty much black tie affairs, I thought I would test out the black and white technique I learned at Color Me Creative Classroom, class 4.

 I used this gorgeous Mo Manning image of a Bride and Groom dancing together.  
In order to achieve this look you simply use cool gray Copic markers ranging from C9 through to C00. I love how it turned out, but I had major issues trying to photograph it. The image is crisp as it should be, but I just simply could not enhance the tiny bit of bling that I added to the wedding dress, hearts and the edging around the tag.


By cropping the picture (below) you can see that the bling shows up, but it still doesn't do it any justice. 
 I added "Stardust Stickles" to the folds of the dress  and then I edged the tag using a black "atyou Spica" twinkling pen followed by more stardust stickles. 

I had a fleeting thought to add a "splash" colour somewhere, but I was just to frightened to ruin a good thing. Perhaps I will practice with a scrap piece of paper and use pencil crayons for a test run. 


The card sketch was my own design and is simplistic. I used my SB oval dies, and pop dots to give the image some depth against a black matte. The sentiment was simply printed out using my computer/printer and then I used a chipboard shape to cut out a design for a tag. 


Well there you have it, my wedding card for this weeks Twisted Thursday challenge theme. 
Come on, get on over to the Outlawz so we can see your creations too!


Thanks for stopping by :)S