Sunday, January 20, 2013

Follow the Yellow Brick Road...

... Hopefully to a chance for a Guest spot on the Kraftin' Kimmie Design team.

You must use a Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp on your creation and you also must include some sort of metal embellishments/paper/colour on your design!

So - I did a triple play on this card - I have metal "paper", metal embellishments (the hearts), and I colored up the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz collection in well ... tin.

The background paper is a heavy foil that I embossed with the diamond plate embossing folder. The other embellishments are three different heart charms I found - - you know since the Tin Man wants a heart! The sentiment is stamped with versamark and then embossed with detail silver ep. 


I colored the Tin Man in shades of Cool grey starting at C00 up through C3. Some of the shadows are C5. After I was done, I added a little E04 to give the tin a rusty look. But it looked very bland on white paper. So I thought Yellow Brick Road. I added that with Y11, Y21, Y23, Y26. Then the whole thing looked WEIRD! So I added in the poppy field using the dotting technique with G20, 21, 24 and R22, 24, 29. So then I added B21 for the sky. I like that much  better than the plain white background. 

OK... now off to be crafty again. I still have a few more cards to do this weekend.  :-)

Have a great day!

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4 comments:

  1. My daughters and I were all tickled pink with this card. We really like the tinman with the diamond plate and hearts and all the shades of gray you used on your image - must have read the book

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  2. I totally love this and if it were up to me, I'd give you the spot!

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  3. Best of luck to you! This card is fantastic. The diamond plate embossing really brings out your great coloring of the tin man.

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  4. Alaine, I LOVE this card! Your coloring rocks and that embossed metal background couldn't be MORE perfect! Wonderful work, lady! Hugz, Cheryl

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