OK here's the full post I promised earlier (that I am now wishing I hadn't promised I'd finish tonight LOL - I had to be up extra early this morning for a meeting and then worked late tonight - I'm beat - but I promised!! *grin*)
So the other day I posted this picture of the Bella images I had colored:
And I said I was planning on making cards with all of them.
I received a couple of comments asking how I planned on using the images and how I would cut them out - and FYI I purposely only stamped 6 images onto the cardstock so that there was enough space between each image for me to either cut them out or die cut them.
I took a couple of pics showing how I cut out the Jugglabella image:
I knew I wanted to cut this out with one of my oval nestabilities so I held up a few different ones to the image 'till I found the size I liked (this one is from the long ovals set - sorry I can't remember which one!).
I then taped the die in place and trimmed around it before I ran it through my die cutting machine.
I saved the little piece of cardstock left that I wrote down all the Copics I used so that I can share that here!
When I color several images at once I usually try to write down all the colors with a pencil near the image b/c I will forget by the time I actually get around to USING the image and making something with it!
So once the image was cut out I fiddled around with the patterned paper (which I also mentioned in the previous post that I had planned on using papers from theAC I Heart You Collection for all these images as it gave me a unified color scheme and something to work with when it came time to make the cards) and made the card:
I stamped the image onto CCD white cardstock and colored it in with Copics.
COPICS USED:
E50, E51, R20, E25, E29, Y15, Y17, RV17, RV19, R27, R29, BG10, W5, W3, W1, W00.
I die-cut 2 scalloped ovals from 2 different colors of cardstock to mat the main image.
The ribbon is also from American Crafts (I had originally meant to use a red ribbon with little hearts on it but I LOVED how the yellow looked so I went with that instead!).
I kept with the yellow theme and added some yellow primas, and I stamped the sentiment from the Love Sentiments set onto yellow cardstock and punched it out with SU's Word Window punch.
It is hard to pick up in a picture but I used some of my Spica glitter pens on the bella - I added some shimmer to the hearts and to her shoes and part of her outfit. In real life it's got a nice subtle sparkle :o)
And then of course on the inside I just added more patterned paper and die cut an oval and scalloped oval from cardstock and adhered those in place and that was it!
