Fred's Freebie Challenge

While blog surfing, I came across the Fred, She Said blog and the Freebie Challenge she has going on right now. There is a beautiful digi image provided for free that you must use in your project. I loved the image so I had to play and here's what I came up with:


I printed the pot area twice on blue patterned paper, then shaded with a Copic and layered using scrap cardstock to pop it up. The rest was colored with Copics and I added some Stardust glitter pen to the open flowers. I did a LOT of paper tole to give the image tons of dimension using a combination of cardstock punches and foam tape to pop up the parts.

Because I wanted to keep the focus on the image, I kept the card base really simple. I added a scalloped mat and a bit of patterned paper punched with a Martha Stewart border punch and embellished with half pearls. I also free handed the little border (it looks totally hand drawn, but I think it's fun!) and stamped a tiny sentiment.

Here's a close shot to show some of the sparkle:

Unfortunately, because of all the shaping, it was impossible to get a really good shot of all the glitter!

And here you can see all the layers and shaping of the pieces for realism:



Copic colors used:

• flower centers - Y11, Y13
• flower petals - RV000, R81, R83, R85
• leaves - YG11, YG13, YG17
• pot shading - B41

And I also used the colorless blender all over to highlight and soften edges.

This card is also for the Copic Creations Challenge #8 - Botanicals.

I had so much fun playing with this image - a big thanks to Tracey for this fab freebie!

I hope you like my card and TFL!

Other materials used: patterned paper - Fancy Pants (Key Lime collection); sentiment (Mega Mixed Messages set) - Papertrey Ink; Nestabilities; half pearls - MimiLolo Etsy store.