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When you make a conscious choice to be happy, no one can take it away from you because no one gave it to you: you gave it to yourself.

A quote from April Green's - Bloom For Yourself Journal

Friday 14 March 2014

For my Uncle

I'm back today to share my latest Graph It DT project, all of the details are on the main Graph It Challenge blog. Pop over to join in and see the other DT inspiration.

Now before I start I want to announce my winner from week 7's Floral/Whimsy challenge where anyone who commented on my post were in with a chance to win a prize from Graph It. I will need the winner to email me their snail mail to -

zoekirkby@o2.co.uk

my random winner as picked by my boy is......
Alison  - Alison's Crafty Bitz and bobs

Congratulations Alison, please email me asap to claim your prize.

Onto this week - 

So for this card, I used my Graph It's to create some of the background as well as colour the main image. I used inks to start the background but then used my Graph It's through a stencil to build depth. 

I started with a light colour to start.

I think it looks effective through the stencil.

Then I added a darker colour.

I blended the two before drawing round the bricks.
It's a great way to create background even if you don't have any other inks. The Graph It's work fabulously!

Here's the card - 
The image is Emma Canning - Web surfing which is perfect for those boys young & old! I added extra accents from my stash.
The Graph It's I used are - 
Skin = 4125, 4115, 4155 & 3210
Hair = 3125, 3150, 3170 & 3290
Laptop/background = 9100, 9102, 9103 & 9105

As you can see I stayed with the same pens throughout to create the background and on the main image. The cool greys are super male colour tones!

I'm entering this into the following challenge - 

Take care Zo xx





8 comments:

Kathyk said...

Splendid guy card

Kathyk

Eve's Been Reading said...

Super cool card, love it and thanks for the tutorial! Yvonne x

Crafts-by-Alison.blogspot.com said...

Ooooh Zoe thanks for picking me as a winner cheered me up no end as back is still playing up badly. Love this card and the tutorial will have to have a try. Loads of love Alison x

fairy thoughts said...

You have so much patience with your colouring it's gorgeous I wish I could but I'm too bish bash bosh if you know what I mean
Janet

Claire said...

Gorgeous card, love the background too Zoe
Claire xx

Anjie said...

Fab card Zo!
Anj
xx

fiona mctiernan walker said...

Hi Zoe a great card with great colouring your Uncle will love it. Thankyou for joining our challenge this fortnight at Crafty Girls. Hope you will join us again soon.
Hugs
Fiona
Blog co-owner

Debbie said...

Fantastic card.Great background too.Thanks for joining in with us over at Nutcrafters.Good luck.Hugs Debbie x