Butterfly Reflections, Ink

Hello, hello! Erica back on the BRI blog today! For this post I have done a little something different, I haven't coloured or stamped up any new images at all. Instead I looked in my little (but very overflowing) box of already coloured images, diecuts and stamped up sentiments and thought I'd challenge myself to use these rather than indulge my love of colouring again. I have a habit of colouring, colouring, colouring and then colouring some more... aaaaand then put the images aside with an 'I'll use them one day' attitude but when you do this continuously the stash does grow rather rapidly. So, it was time for an intervention for myself, hence this challenge. Aside from all these images and diecuts, I do have some card bases laying around for those times when I need quick cards and for all these, five in total, I used 4"x4" textured ready-creased cards. The stamped images, diecuts, card stock, markers, inks, embossing powders etc I have used...

HI guys! Erica on the BRI blog today with a big blooming card using Altenew’s Build-A-Flower Gardenia set. I have had this set in my stash since it was released and I haven’t used it until now but it certainly won’t be the last time. It’s gorgeous!!  I started out by stamping the big bloom twice on Neenah Classic Crest card stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink . To colour in the flowers I used the red pens from Altenew’s Artist Markers Set A /Red Cosmos. I like colouring flowers using a flicking technique to create lots of textures, low and highlights on the petals. One of the flowers I made slightly darker as the idea was to place them in such a way that the shadow from the first flower would make the second one darker naturally. Does that make sense?  Anyway, I coloured away until I was happy with the flowers and then moved on to the leaves. These I decided to use inks with instead of the markers. I might have gone slightly overboard (*gasps of shock* Erica n...