Red Roses

Today I am delighted to show off some elegant roses for our newest challenge at Power Poppy, called Say Yes to No Lines.  Cindy has given us a No-Line Colouring Challenge!  With Valentine’s Day coming soon, I thought I’d create a love-themed card, showcasing some beautiful no-line roses.

  

I stamped the roses from My English Rose set onto Copic XPress it Blending Cardstock using Toffee Crunch ink, so that once I started colouring, those lines would disappear due to the ink being much lighter in colour.  It takes patience, and a bit of a slower hand to get the accuracy with no-line colouring, but the results are so lovely and unique.  It ends up looking more like a straight illustration than a stamped image.  

I stamped both of the roses in the set to colour, one of which is attached to a “note”.  When I cut the roses out, I just elimated the note.  By doing that it looks more like a rose bush with smaller and larger roses, including some pretty buds.  

On the white background layer I used my Scor Bug and Scor Buddy to create the raised dotted lines to give you the feeling of a trellis for the roses to climb on.  

I embossed the word “love”in black onto the patterned paper, added a pretty leafy die cut from the same patterned paper as the strip and then some black sequins.  

Here’s the Copics I used below.  

Pop on over to be inspired by the rest of the Bloom Brigade playing along today...

Allison Cope
Christine Okken (you are here)
Cindy Lawrence
Katie Sims
Stacy Morgan

And then come join us in the month long challenge colouring without the lines!  You could win a Power Poppy set of your choice!