Good morning!! I certainly hope it's a happy day for you. Happy days and Blue Jays are what I'm celebrating today. This is a card I made with the Blue Jay die from The Scrapping Cottage. During the winter months here in Missouri, we thoroughly enjoy feeding the birds, and it gives us a lot of enjoyment to watch them. Beautiful Blue Jay's frequent our feeders on a regular basis, and when I received this particular die, it immediately reminded me of our lovely winter visitors. I'm so impressed with the amazing detail of each die cut piece. As usual, I started with plain white Georgia Pacific card stock, for my die cut. I assembled the pieces by gluing them together, then I started coloring with my Copic markers. I always start with the lightest color, and build layers of color from there.
The second picture below shows you a little closer look at the coloring, and a tip I'd like to share with you is that after all of my coloring is finished, I like to go over the piece and add tiny details with a pure black Micron pen size 01. You can see below some of the lines that I added with my pen, and it really helps give the finished project an authentic look. I played along with the 2 Sketches 4 You Challenge (Kazan's sketch) with this card layout. I just love sketch challenges, because by having the sketch already prepared, I can focus my time and energy on coloring the image and choosing great paper and embellishments. It just seems to make my card making life so much simpler.
I hope you've enjoyed my offering for today. Feel free to stop by my blog, The ThINKin' Spot for more of my adventures in card making. Have a wonderful weekend, filled with happy stamping and scrapping!
