Getting Fancy with Critter Sketch Challenge and The Stamping Boutique

One of the great things about The Stamping Boutique is that Tracey loves to sponsor challenges, so as part of the DT I get to play along with any that take my fancy.  Today's card is for this week's challenge over at Critter Sketch Challenge; a challenge blog i'd not come across before, but looks like fun.  Their challenge this week is to create a card using a Fancy Fold; so I decided to make a Spring Card.

For my card I chose to use one of the newest additions to The Enchantment Line, a beautiful image called 'Thoughts'.  I picked out some gold cardstock and orange vellum from my stash, with the intention of doing a rather monochromatic card with shades of orange, gold and yellow.  I decided to start colouring the face with a nice orange and red combination, leaving lots of white paper to emphasise the light nature of the image.  I then started on the hair with a red pencil, followed by orange for the next strands of hair, I then came up with the idea of rainbow hair, and I love how it turned out.  I used Prismacolour Verithin Pencils for this project, which have a thinner, harder lead than the normal Prismacolour pencils.

To embellish my card I decided to add some pearls in the colours of the rainbow to compliment the rainbow hair.  I added some orange vellum behind my image, and to the base of the Spring Card, to which I also added a Tim Holtz Ticket along with a couple of 3D Butterfly stickers.

I love the image I used, and can't wait to try out some different colour combinations on it.  It really is a beautiful image to colour.

Thank you for visiting with me
Bye for now
Suzi
xxx

Comments

PepPop said…
Gorgeous card Suzi. I love the rainbow hair. Jaqui x
Rhonda Miller said…
This is gorgeous. I love that you did it all in a rainbow. TFS.
Jen Shults said…
Suzie this is so cool! It totally jumped out at me as I was going through my reader. I love the rainbow hair and that image is just gorgeous!
♥Rach♥ said…
SO gorgeous! Love the beautiful colors and pearls, this is too pretty :0)
What's the fab font on your site, Suzi?? I love it!!
Big hugs!
Danni said…
What a fabulous card!! Love how you've done this!
marsha said…
Just beautiful! Thanks so much for joining us for this week's Critter Sketch Challenge, hope you will come back and play again next week!
Hugs,
Marsha
Georgia Ehrmann said…
Such a beautiful card! I love your coloring and the image is stunning! Thank you for playing at Critter Sketch Challenge this week!
Hugs,
Georgia
Christy Dillman said…
Suzi- I love this card, the rainbow colors compliment the image perfectly! The skin tone is wonderful also!

Hugs,
Christy
Tasha said…
Oh my goodness! This is knock your socks off stunning Suzi. I love the colours you used as well as that amazing image
love tasha xx
Michelle Single said…
Oh my!!!! This is absolutely fabulous!
Colleen said…
Very pretty - lovely coloring!
Unknown said…
You're my hero! You've taken this image 10 levels up.

(-and I want to know what this font is also!!!!)