My card is inspired by the current challenge at Aurora Wings - 'Clean and Simple. I love an opportunity to colour Mizi's beautiful images. I thought I'd try something a little different this time so I printed Miyabi twice and coloured one image in greyscale. I cut a strip from the second image and coloured that ...in colours :)) then paper-pieced it over the top of the grey image ...quite fiddly to get it exact! With hindsight I wish I'd just marked the image and coloured in the central section instead of cutting the strip...the line down her face would have blended in better- otherwise I like the effect! The stamp in the bottom right hand corner is the Japanese kanji for beauty (I hope!)
Thanks for visiting
have a lovely evening.
Chris
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Challenges entered:
aurorawings #58
craftycatz #387 CAS
watercooler #139 feminine
Gosh, she is beautiful Chris..a striking effect and love the shine you managed in her hair..gorgeous work.
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Oh my, Chris, what a gorgeous image! Kudos to you for getting that paper-piecing so precisely right that it looks natural. Love that special effect of the strip of colour vertically across the image. It adds such an elegant effect to an already elegant image. Beautiful card! Thanks so much for joining our Watercooler Wednesday Challenge this week.
ReplyDeleteWOW this is breathtakingly beautiful Chris and how creative to do the image half and half it looks spectacular, I wish I could come up with ideas like that, the CAS style if the card design is perfection, top notch make
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lorraine x
What an intriguing and gorgeous way of using the Spotlight technique, Chris. Beautiful card! Hugs, de
ReplyDeleteHello, my friend!! I'm so happy to be back and visiting your blog to see the gorgeous projects I've missed while I was away!! Wow, this is stunning!! The spotlight technique you used looks amazing!! I absolutely love, love this!! It's spectacular!! Have a great day!! Big hugs :)
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A Mermaid's Crafts
So sweet and beautifully done! xx
ReplyDeleteIt might have been fiddly Chris but well worth it in the end, what a beautiful image and coloured so beautifully too, a lovely technique and a gorgeous card.
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I love the effect of the coloured strip that you created. This made me want to try this, looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing your talent with us at CRAFTY CATZ this week. Best of luck!
Nick
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeletewell this is quite different and splendidly done too.
Not seen this type of work before but it's very interesting and beautifully created.
Love that image it's gorgeous.
Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.
Well this is really fab Chris! I love what you have done with this image huggles Sue xx
ReplyDeleteWOW, Chris! Is this ever cool and creative! Brilliant coloring on Mitzi's gorgeous image and I'm totally blown away by the amazing effect. Thanks so much for joining our CAS challenge at Aurora Wings. xxD
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and elegant. Wonderful technique of combining the coloured strip with the B&W image. Thanks for joining us at Watercooler Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteWow!! I totally LOVE this gorgeous image Chris and your utterly fabulous greyscale to full colour design is AMAZING!! What an inspired creation hun. Love it to bits. Hugs, Wends xoxo
ReplyDeleteThis is truly an awesome card!!!! I love how it came out! Thank you so much for joining us this week at Watercooler Wednesdays!
ReplyDeleteWow! NOt much more to be said Chris. Just WOW! xx
ReplyDeleteChris, this is AMAZING! Wow, what an awesome work! I LOVE it! It's certainly CAS at first look, but there's so much more going on with your coloring of the image here! I love the grey scale coloring with bright colors contrasting starkly yet with seamless transition. Thank you for joining our CAS challenge at Aurora Wings. Mitzi xx
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