Sunday 6 April 2014

Turquoise Hearts

After my last blog post I checked out the new challenge on 'Less is More' and discovered that it was 'A touch of turqoise' - one of my favourite colours.

I decided I wanted something jewel-like as my theme so I looked up turquoise on Google images and found some geat pictues of pieces of  turquoise.

 To create the same impression I coloured plain card with copic markers (BG13 & BG05). I coloured the whole surface alternately at least three or four times (they probably produce a pen that would be the perfect colour - but I don't own it) then I used my handy crackle stamp and stamped over it using black memento ink.

I die cut two hearts and clear embossed them to give a nice shine. I
 chose a textured cream coloured card to create a contrast with the shiny hearts. I embossed the sentiment (which I wish I had got a little neater - but next time will be better).
I felt it needed a little more so I took a narrow border off the front of the card and ran a strip of the turquise card down the side.


Here's a close-up of the hearts



I feel really pleased with how this turned out (except for my embossing on the words).
This will be my last piece of crafting for the week I think.

I have a science assignment to hand in on Thursday. Lewis and I had fun with a kinex Trebouchet in the weekend and now I have to write up my results and establish my conclusions etc.  So I'm really pleased I have such a productive period of crafting beforehand.
thanks for reading
Dianne

6 comments:

  1. Oh how clever! I love the way you reproduced the Turquoise with the Crackle stamp.

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  2. This is a brilliant idea... super!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  3. Dianne what a stunning take on the challenge, love this!
    Thanks so much for playing along at Less is More this week
    Anne
    LIM Designer

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  4. Love the classic lines of this card, Dianne. Your creativity with the turquoise is fantastic! Such a great idea. TFS

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  5. I like this very much. The border is an easy way of adding interest simply. Really eyecatching.

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