Pen and Paperie: Orchids

Another day and another birthday in May, this time I’ve used a lovely image on my card from Jeremiah Ketner called Orchids.

Jeremiah’s style is sketchy and I have to say I don’t like those black lines of shading on images so I fixed the problem by printing the lines really light so they pretty much disappeared under my colouring. I also altered the proportions of the image a bit to fit into my die (she’s taller and thinner) as I’ve made a resolution to put a die cut on every card I make so I can actually use every single one of the 250+ dies I own (and, no, I don’t have enough!).

To make up my card I’ve followed the current card sketch over at Sketch-N-Scrap, created by one of their sketch artists Kelly. I resized the sketch to my fav card size (6x6) which made the circle an oval so then I flipped it to accommodate my image.

I also used the image at Just Add Ink for some inspiration, I loved the colours and the pattern of the leaves. I went searching through my stash of papers and found the Maja Design paper with a flower print that was similar and with a blue background that echoed the chair in the photo. I wanted to use flowers rather than leaves but rather than traditional roses used flowers from my stash that matched the shape of those on the designer paper, which to me are similar in shape to the leaves in the picture and tied in with the image, which I was just really wanting to colour. The white flower in the vase inspired the addition of the white roses to add a bit of depth to my flower arrangement.

Over at Brown Sugar they are looking for projects with layers. Let me count mine, there’s the base card, my blue cardstock (love double matting for that thin border), my designer paper, my die cut image and my embellies, that’s five so I guess I qualify.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Lips R81, R85, R89

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit BV00, BV11, BV17

Orchids BV20, R00, RV11

Chalks & Powders etc

PanPastel ~ Neutral Grey Tint

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Wild Rose Studio ~ Oval Frames

Embellishments