I just finished this card last night and HAD to share it ASAP!
I don't know about you guys but I am in love with the new Sweet November Zodiac images. I don't even read my horoscope LOL but I LOVE these images! They're big enough to have fun coloring them and you can tweak all of them so that they don't look like "Zodiac" images at all - giving them a ton of possibilities.
I got the SN Gemini and the Sagittarius ones to make samples with and I'm pretty sure I'm going to buy all the other ones in the near future so I can play with them too.
This first card uses the Gemini stamp and the first thing I thought of when I saw it was to make it into a Best Friends card - so that's what I did:
I pulled out all my Basic Grey Marjolaine papers and accessories for this card, and used several Glazed Brads along with one of the Stitched brads and a couple regular ones too.
The flowers were from my stash, as was the ribbon (May Arts). I added a bit of the Marjolaine Ribbon Doilies to the left side under the flowers too.
I ignored the fact that she's wearing a necklace (they each have their sign hanging from necklaces) and colored her shoulders as a shirt instead - it was that simple.
I colored them in with Copics making one a blonde and one a brunette. After I had the card put together I felt like adding a bit of sparkle to the card - so I pulled out my Copic Spica pens (Chocolate, Sky Blue and Lemon) to add some shimmer to their eyes and hair - much more subtle than Stickles but it looks SO cool in real life! It was really hard to pick up the shimmer on camera.
And of course I used my Friends Sentiments stamps to finish off the card.
I kept the inside of the card pretty simple. I stamped the Gemini image with a light green ink onto white cardstock, trimmed it out and matted it with black before adhering it to the inside of the card over the patterned papers.
I stamped another sentiment from the Friends Sentiments set, rounded the corners of it and that was it!
