Elybell and Lover Boy

The Limited Supply Challenge on SCS today was to use alphabet stamps to create the main focal point for our card.  I don’t have many alphabet sets as I have sold most of them.  I am sort of technically challenged when it comes to using alpha stamps but I still have my heart shaped alpha’s that I thought I could something fun with.  I can’t say it really turned out to be my main focus of the card but there are more alpha’s than you will have seen on one of my cards in a long while. I almost didn’t play in the challenge as it was hard to get inspired….but that is when I think we need to keep pushing forward.  So I did.  Not my best work but it will pass.

I stamped the Elaybell and boy image on watercolor paper, colored and cut out.  I chose my color combination from the SU color wheel by using the bordering blue choices.  I wanted the boy to have on blue jeans and bordering is such a great color for them. After I got them images painted I realized that none of my color choices really went with heart and that I probably should have used red and all the complimentary colors but…..it was too late now.  I sketched out a tree with my artist pen on white cardstock, painted the trunk with reinker and put only a limited amount of greenery on the scene.  I wanted the focus to be on the love alphahearts and the initials carved into the tree.  They are a cute couple.

Stamps:  Elzybells Art Stamps, SU Alphahearts

Paper:  Not Quite Navy, Mustard, Watercolor White

Ink:  Versafine Black, Sage, Not Quite Navy, Saffron, Blush Blossom, Pink, Mustard, Craft Not Quite Navy

Accessories:  Nestabilities 1" Square, Diminsionals, Watercolor Brushes, Clear Embossing Powder