…resplendent in beauty, the lotus lifted her golden crown…

I’ve got a card to share today featuring a retired commissioned image from Simply B Stamps called Sharman.

The layout follows the sketch over at Get Creative, where I’ve formed the elements using ink, texture paste and stencils rather than paper.  For the two stripes I’ve stencilled flowers in texture paste and then created another stencilled background for the image.

I went with texture paste for the flowers and embossing for the sentiment after seeing the current challenge at Lawnscaping was to add texture.  It let me create a fancy card that isn’t too fussy, in keeping with the recipient’s tastes.  Added texture comes from the resin embellies I used, the lotus flower blooms the closest match I had to the flowers in Tim’s stencil.

My colour scheme came from Hand Stamped Sentiments, I did have to add some colours (green for the flower stems and skin and hair on the image) but tried to match the two pink tones in the flowers and the background.  Added the blue in the outfit on my coloured image.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E30, E37, 0

Lips E04, R56, R59

Hair E35, E50, YR24, YR31

Outfit B91, B93, B95, B97, N2, 0

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Gold

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Layering Stencils ~ THS019 Latticework & THS035 Wild Flower

Embellishments

Webster’s Pages Whimsies ~ Lotus Flower Blooms (retired)

Inks & Paints etc

Ranger Texture Paste ~ Transparent Gloss

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink ~ Raspberry & Sunset Orange

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing & Victorian Velvet

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot

Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers ~ Peeled Paint & Worn Lipstick

Papers

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Flamingo

Core’dinations Cardstock ~ Aged Wine

Papertrey Ink Cardstock ~ Stamper’s Select White

Stamps

Close to my Heart ~ D1497 Art Philosophy Party (retired)

Simply B Stamps ~ Sharman (retired)

Challenges

Get Creative #47 ~ Another Sketch Challenge

Hand Stamped Sentiments #246 ~ Colour

Lawnscaping #137 ~ Texture

Thanks for stopping by!