Sunday, January 06, 2008

GinaK's sketch challenge...

Yesterday GinaK unveiled her new stamp sets... during which she had a few contests going on throughout her reveal party one of which was a card sketch. I decided to play along with it. I also got my hands on some new prisma pencils yesterday at Micheals with the 50% off coupon.... and I got the 48 pack with a bonus of 12 verithin pencils for $30... you know I had to color something with them.



I just love this house mouse image... It is actually a wishRak image I got a few months back. I think I need to invest in this stamp before I run out the images.
I decided to take a close up of the mouse and his strawberries. I used the gamsol magic technique with my pencils... you can find several tutorials around the web on this technique.

For my sentiment I used my new papertrey Ink set Year round puns... The birthday sentiment fits this image so well and I do need a few birthday cards this month...

I need some black brads but it seems I have run out so I grabbed my black copic marker and colored two silver ones in... Love my copics... I also took the hearts out of my papertrey ink set my punny valentine and created the row of hearts across the top of the card... well I am off to see what other kind of inspiration i can find around here while I clean... have a great Sunday afternoon...

Supplies:
Stamps: My punny Valentine, year round puns, house mouse image
Ink: black stazon, purely pomegrante
cardstock: wild wasabi, purely pomegrante, black, whisper white
Accessories: silver brads, black copic marker, gamsol, prismapencils, copic glitter pen

16 comments:

Sherrie said...

so sweet, I love your work Aimee. That house of mouse stamp is adorable and you colored it so well!

Godelieve said...

Those strawberries look REAL!! Yummy! Great card!

Helen said...

Love that cute little mouse - great colouring, too! And that's a cool tip about the brads.

laos348 said...

What a really cute card. I like how you colored in the mouse.

Swamp Tulip said...

What an adorable house mouse image. You did a super job. Now I'm craving strawberry shortcake :)

Teresa

UrgentCookie said...

This is a great card! The house mouse stamps are too cute. I need to try out the one I bought about a month ago. :0)

Anonymous said...

I love all the house mouse images. I have broke down and started collecting them myself. Like I really need more stamps. great card!

Stacy said...

Great job coloring. The card is adorable.

Velta said...

Ths is one of my favorite housemouse stamps..You did a wonderful job with the coloring!! Please come visit me I have news to share :)

Anonymous said...

it turned out really good. love the mouse!

A.Lee said...

You did such an awesome job coloring that image. And what a great deal you got them for!

Kerry Johnson said...

Such a great stamped image and your colouring is awesome! Have fun with your new pencils!

Stacy said...

So cute! Neat tip about coloring the silver brads the color you need them to be! =)

Kraftin' Kimmie said...

Ew....great job colouring!! And awesome layout!

Lorie said...

That is so cute! I love the colors!

Kelly said...

That is so cute! I