Monday, June 9, 2014

Color Me Creative #94 - Anything Goes!

I just love an anything goes challenge- and we have one for you this fortnight at Color Me Creative and it's sponsored by Digi Stamps 4 Joy. My CAS card uses their digiRose trio.   I love this one, but it's not where I started!

Using Google images, I could look through so many photos of roses for inspiration. I was drawn to the cream colored roses with the bright pink tips.  I thought they would create some visual interest for my coloring.

I printed three images and started out coloring the flowers on the far right, playing with the idea of creating the beautiful roses in the photo.  The first one I colored was the middle flower.  I liked it, but it had a little too much yellow.  I went to the smallest bud next and used my Y0000.  Then I wondered what a more traditional pink flower would look like, so I colored the last rose.  I was undecided about which kind of rose I liked best, so I colored one entire image in pink-tipped and the other just pink.

RV25 is my deepest color, and I didn't really have any pink paper in my collection that enhanced the image, nor did I have the right patterned paper to use for the tipped flowers. You know how that goes . . . The white, gray and black combination made the pink stand out, and created a gorgeous CAS card.  I'll save the other colored roses for another time!
Challenges Entered:
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards #66 - Embossing/
Craftitude - Pop It Up/
Less Is More - Colors of your bedroom (dark gray)/
Creative Fingers #38 - AG
Stampin' for the Weekend - AG


8 comments:

  1. Cathy, This card is fabulous!!! Love it. (It's just my style, as you know!) Your coloring on both sets of roses is lovely - I look forward to seeing the other one on a card later. The embossing on the gray is such a powerful grounding for your image. And I also love the stitching on the mat, another great detail!

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  2. What beautiful colouring Cathy... a super card.
    Thanks so much for joining us.
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  3. Thanks for sharing your card Cathy, it's a superb image and coloured beautifully.
    Sarah
    Less is More

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  4. This is so beautiful Cathy. I love the dry embossed border. So happy you joined us at Less Is More. -Lisa Lara (LIM Guest Designer)

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  5. Beautiful card Cathy and fab colouring
    Thank for for joining us at Less is More this week
    Anne
    LIM Designer

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  6. Your colouring is gorgeous and your card is lovely, nice to see the experiments along the way too.

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  7. Beautiful roses! Lovely design too. Thanks for joining us at Craftitude and hope to see you again!

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  8. You do gorgeous floral work... so pretty!

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Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. I appreciate each and every one of them. Cathy