Equine Rose

Today I played in the SCS Ways to Use It Challenge to use black and I incorporated Kurtis' sketch for the weekly sketch challenge at STV. If you play in the challenge, you will have a random chance of winning a free stamp set of your choice from Gina K Designs. Melanie will be posting the new potluck challenge tomorrow and I made this card to meet that challenge, too. Can you guess what her challenge is going to be?

Here are the details...

I started by stamping the rose from Asela's newest stamp set for Gina K, called Friendship's Garden, with Memento black ink and then I used Copic marker R27 to color the darkest areas. The shading lines Asela drew into the image are great to use as a guide for placing your darkest color.

Next I added R24 to the edge of the portion I already colored, blending the colors together and moving out just a bit.

I added R22 to the edges I colored last and blended that out, leaving just a bit of white showing on the tips of the petals.

Next I used my colorless blender to push some of the color right up nearly to the edges of the petals. Then came back with R27 to the very darkest areas again.

Used YG03 on the entire leaves and stem, then added YG93 to the centers of the leaves.

I stamped the horse head from Out West, again using Memento black ink, then used Copic marker E37 to most of the edges and the center of the ears.

Added E35 to what I had just colored, blending out with small circles.

Added E33 using the same technique.

Finally, I added E31 over the rest of the horse's head, leaving the bridle uncolored.

I used E57 to color the bridle and mane. On the mane, I used a sweeping motion with the brush tip of my marker, lifting up at the end of the stroke.

E57 is my darkest brown and I wanted more depth in the mane, so I used my Memento black marker to add a few shading lines.

I cut out both images and placed them on a lightly sponged (with Regal Rose) piece of Pure Luxury Ivory cardstock. The patterned paper is from the Basic Gray Eva pack. Can you believe all the DP I've been using lately?

I did the piercing on the top layer using my new scor-bug tool. It was so fast! Hee hee, I am loving that thing. I did pull out my SU mat pack to get my brads evenly spaced in the corners.

Be sure to stop back tomorrow. My guest designer, Cathy Tidwell is going to be announcing how you can win my Out West stamp set.

Did you see the new episodes on stampTV yesterday? Gina did an amazing video on how to make those cool tile coasters and how to make a gift box for them, just in time for Mothers' Day!

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!