World Cardmaking Day

Today is world cardmaking day, and I have made a few samples for the Papercraft Inspirations big blog party. Why not go over there and take a look - lots of inspiration and fun going on, with some great giveaways too.

I was asked to make cards using current trends, and this is my first prediction, that non-traditional cards will remain popular, but instead of the purples and blacks of last year, there will be a move to pastels - almost baby colours.

So this is how I coloured in the little image from Lili of the Valley

Here is the base image, I cut around the stamped image with my nestability circle die. I wanted her scarf to overlap the edge of the circle, so I cut around that by hand and lifted it over the circle die so that it didn't get chopped off...................

I wanted to achieve a very soft pastel look, almost like an impression of colour, so I went over the largest central part of the image with a blender pen, you can just about see the grey shadow, which is the wet area the blender has covered


then I applied a wash of colour to the hem of her coat, taking it up to the wet blender pen area

and went over the whole area again with the blender to soften the line

I worked in small areas so that the ink would stay nice and wet

When the colouring was complete, I added some glitter to her sweet little hood, and a couple of white pom poms to the scarf. The little metal snowflakes were a box I got at the end of the Christmas season last year, I think they are meant to be table confetti,

Promarkers used:

skin blush and pastel pink

scarf pastel pink and dusky pink

coat cool aqua and duck egg

hair primrose and sandstone

I will be posting more of the cards I made tomorrow, in the meantime, have a lovely cardmaking day