If there’s one annual flower I plant every year it’s geraniums. They’re perfect for pots, they add rich pops of colour and are pretty easy to care for, they keep blooming and blooming if you remember to dead-head them. I love the variety of colours they come in, their beautiful deep green ruffled leaves, and I’m delighted to see these Geraniums I can enjoy all year long illustrated by Marcy! They’re SO gorgeous!
I decided I wanted to go a little vintage with these geraniums and shabby them up a little. I began by softening the digi, printing it in a bit of a grey rather than in deep black. Then, I began colouring the blooms with both Copics and finishing up with Prismacolor Pencils. That combination of colouring mediums gives some really great depth that I enjoy. After colouring, I weathered up the edges of the paper with my fingernail and then sponged a lot of Ranger Distress inks into the cardstock.
On the background layers of Kraft Cardstock I embossed and did some rich sponging too.
For accents I added a string of various colours of sequins inspired by Nancy Thomas. I coloured up the seambinding with Copic Reinkers in a plastic bag to match the colour of the geraniums, then finished with some linen thread.
Here’s the Copics and Prismacolors I used.
And here’s the beautiful Bloom Brigade playing with today’s amazing set!
Christine Okken (you are here)
Cindy Lawrence
Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth
Julie Koerber
Katie Sims
Leslie Miller
Tosha Leyendekker
And be sure to see what Marcy has to say about these beauties!
17 comments:
Beautifully colored image + vintage charm= stunning card!
What? Oh my gosh, stunningly gorgeous! Your card is Ah-MAZING!
Beautiful colored!
wow this is stunning love it Christine.
gr karin
Oh, wow! Christine, this is gorgeous! I just LOVE the vintage feel to this, and your geranium is so beautifully colored! It's a big WOW!! Love it, sweet friend! Hugs!
very pretty. have a great day
Okay, this is the geranium card to end all geranium cards. I'm just going to sit here with my mouth agape. Gorgeous, Christine!
You're simply amazing sweet friend! So gorgeously colored, or should I say painted, this is a masterpiece of gorgeous, vibrant color!
Wow! This is stunning, girl! Love the combination of shabby vintage with the sparkly sequins!
Oh my goodness this is beyond beautiful. I think God gave you a double dipping of creativity <3
I have lots of these in my garden this year and in my baskets :) Lovely card.
Your coloring combined with your distressing is just exquisite Christine!! I LOVE the vintage feel you've achieved and the threaded sequins add that extra bit of charm!! Gorgeous!
Gorgeous, I love the vintage feel of this card, beautiful coloring, pretty sequins to border it off :) I have geraniums out front in my hanging pots, didn't know how they would do but it works great!
I know I have said this before, but I would LOVE to just sit and watch you color! Oh, how beautiful these geraniums are. I love the color choices you made, the heavily distressed paper, and those sequins....simply amazing! Sigh...
I love the warm vintage feel of this! And those sequins are just perfect! Beautiful!
Vintage beauty! The combo of pencils and copics is so cool. I especially like how you can use the sequence on cards, great touch.
Wow.. the dimension of the blooms with the Copics and pencils combined is amazing! Gorgeous distressing - I just love this card Christine!
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