Red & Green - OWH Mid-week Throwdown

Operation Write Home (OWH) has a weekly sketch challenge on Sundays, and then a "mid-week throw-down" challenge.   This week the throw-down is to do red & green cards for our heroes to send home to their families.  Naturally, that said Christmas to me.

I may have to try some non-Christmas ones, too!  If you'd like to play along, here's the link:
   http://operationwritehome.org/stampers-best-giveaway/

Fisherman Colored

.

Here is the fisherman image, colored with Copic markers.  I followed the colors on the wooden stamp block, but it's not a great result.  It seems to have lost much of the detail with the coloring.  I guess I just don't know how to color detailed images like this one.  Anyone have any tips to share?

OWH Sketch Challenge #138 – Hero Arts week!

This week's OWH sketch is a nice, simple one.  The distressing on my card image looks much better in person.  I stamped the two-step flowers in two shades of pink and two shades of purple. 

If you want to play along, here's the link:  http://operationwritehome.org/sketch-challenge-138-with-hero-arts/

Hope you are having a good week.

A few other Telescoping Images I tried

Here are a few of my early attempts at doing the telescoping image card for club -- before deciding on the butterflies. 

  I like the floral images, but it seems the more detail there is in the image, the harder it is to get the layers to look right.  The fisherman with the spotlight technique is pretty crooked.

Telescoping Butterflys

The card club I belong to had us make a multi-layer card at club in July that I think of as "telescoping".  Our swaps for September were to be cards made in this format.  Any subject or picture we wanted, just so long as it was one picture on three "levels" with mats between.  (Hard to describe, but easy to do.)  I tried several pictures before I settled on Butterflies.  The sentiment and the butterflies all come from Gina K Designs. After stamping the butterflies & sentiment in black dye ink, I used three colors of Tim Holtz Distress Inks to color randomly on the butterflies, and then two more to make the background blue & green.  Had a lot of fun.

I did green mats for club, but had some silver cardstock to use up.  I wasn't sure I liked the plain silver, so then I tried coloring the edges of the mats using Copics, to get a color that fit the image better.

The blue one isn't very straight, but it made me think I should try doing one with the layers purposely angled to see how that would look.