Monday, July 16, 2012

A LITTLE TOO BRIGHT..............

The stamp store in Branson MO which I visited in June had a sample card on the wall showing this image.  We have a finch feeder outside our bow window in our living room.  Although we haven't had as many Goldfinch this summer for some reason, I decided to purchase the stamp and I took a picture of their sample card.  (You can see a picture of the sample card below.  I wasn't real crazy about the glittery portion but used it as a guide. They didn't have the vertical sentiment stamp .)

I stamped the image using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then colored with Copic markers.  Since the image has a black fine line around the bird feeder design, I trimmed it leaving a border of white around the outer edge and then colored that border with the yellow Copic marker.  The colors I used just happened to go well with the SU papers that I used for the card base and green strip.

The card is pretty bright so not real crazy about the end result.  One thing I would have done differently though would be to emboss the white layer with a texture of some kind.  If you have any suggestions to improve how to use this image, I would welcome anything you could offer.  Thank you for stopping by!

2 comments:

Lynette said...

I think it's very pretty, Vicki, and I don't have any suggestions to improve it!

Sheri said...

I like it just the way it is. Love how you did the seeds. We didn't have one goldfinch this year. What's up with that?

Two more cards using the "All About Autumn" retired dsp. Thank you for coming by today!