Wednesday, February 17, 2010

ATC holder for Whimsical Wednesday

Stamp: Sweet Pea Stamps - Ching-Chou Kuik's "Spring Luna"
Glassine envelope - Papertreyink


Hello everyone and welcome to week #23 of Whimsical Wednesday challenges at The Diedrich Dare!

This week's challenge is a beautiful color challenge issued by the magnificent Mad Hatter, herself, Jessica! Just in time to get us in the mood for Spring!! What's all this Mad Hatter talk?? Guess you should go down the rabbit hole and find out for yourself! Congrats on the amazing new blog Jess! Oh, what fun!

So, on to this week's COLOR CHALLENGE:
I know everyone's monitor's will probably view this slightly different, so I will give you some color descriptions. Anything close, will be just fine!
Light Olive/avocado
Rose/pink
Sky blue/light aqua
Hot pink/raspberry




For my card today, I used a small glassine envelope from Papertreyink. These are the perfect size for ATCs. And, a great way to attach your ATC to a card without ruining it! I used decorative scissors to cut the bag at an angle, so most of the image would show, but left enough that the ATC would stay firmly in place. I added a few border lines with a ruler and my aqua Souffle pen by Sakura.

A few of you have commented on my bright colors. If you see a card with shocking, vivid colors, chances are I am using my Fluorescent Copics. For instance, FV2, is Fluorescent Dull Violet. A gorgeous bright purple. You can see it on my card posted here. My favorite bright pinks however, are RV04 Shock Pink and RV06 Cerise. And, yes, they are bright! One of these days when they find a cure for sleep, I will get a chart of flourescents and brights up for you. ;o)

If you want to play along this week, upload your card to your blog or online gallery. If you use an online gallery, please use keyword DDSC23 so we can find you. Make sure you link your card/project to Mr Linky over at the Dare blog.

Please be sure to visit all the amazing Daredevils this week:
Cassie Larson
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich
Kris Palakiko
Rebecca Ednie
Sandra MacLean
Sara Henton
Val Urtiaga

Thanks for stopping by!

Please be sure to check out my Flutter By Wednesday post below......

20 comments:

WickedPixie said...

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!! I had convinced myself I didn't need any of those florescents!! :-)Traci

Cindy Haffner said...

Very BEAUTIFUL!

RiNNE said...

I heart the colors!!! And your coloring is stunning! That glassine envelope and those flowers are so beautiful!

Emma said...

Love the bright colors, just gorgeous!

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous Randi !!! I'm in love with the colors !!!
Thanks for sharing !!!
Hugs
Mag :)

♥ Kristy Woods ♥ said...

WOW!! I sooo wanna come to one of your card classes and learn amazing cards like this!!
Kristy x

JenRaff said...

The colors you used are gorgeous and the card is perfect! The whole image is just fantastic!

Angela said...

I think I own 2 or 3 florescents and need a few more!! Randi, these are just beautiful!!! Your coloring is always so stunning!!! I am with you, I wish I could go without sleep!! Just not enough time in a day!! I only sleep 3 to 4 hrs a night now!!
Hugs:)
Angela

Jen Shults said...

Oh my Randi, this is just stunning! I just got my big shipment of Sweet Pea Stamps, I can hardly wait for the weekend to be able to use them!!! I love the colors on this... just WOW!

Heather Schlatter said...

Wow Randi this is gorgeous your coloring is always out of this world good!!! You totally rock those sweet pea stamps girl if anyone is perfect for them it is you!!!!

You have the coloring abilities of a coloring Queen!!! Gorgeous and love it!!!

Heather

Kerry said...

Stunning, love it. I love the bright colors too. Got to get some of those florescent colors

Sara Henton said...

I'll tell you here too, this is just ABFAB!!!

Sammi said...

oooh...what a GORGEOUS card!!
I just love your colouring AGAIN! thanks for sharing the copic colours :D I'd love to come to one of your classes too... mm... think it's a BIT far! Thanks for your reply to my paper question - I've ordered the Neenah... was going to try and email you... can't see an address though... when you get a chance could uyou please drop me a line?
sammi at betbeder dot com
Thanks :D
xxx

Valerie said...

Your fairy cards always seem to knock me off my chair...GIRL they are beautiful!!!!

Elena said...

Wow! Stunning card! I love, love your coloring, Randi! And what a gorgeous design you created!

Jenn K said...

This is AMAZING!!

KymKreates said...

Randi,
Thanks for the copic colors, It really helps to distinguish what colors you used. My gosh you must have every color!!! Once again your project is just lovely!!! I can not wait to get coloring on mine!
Kym

kris said...

Love love love the coloring on this beauty!!! love the blends!!! you did one fabulous job on this girl!!! =D

Micki said...

oohhhh I love those colors and your ATC is absolutely stunning.

Love it.

Tammi said...

Oh wow, she's stunning! Love the vibrant colors on her, sooooo pretty!