Thursday, April 22, 2010

Fill This Day With Joy

Happy Earth Day! Today has not gone smoothly. My gmail account was hacked and spammed all my contacts during the middle of the night. A lot of you got a wacky email from me. Ugh!

I made this card for Kristina's 1-layer (no embellishment) challenge. I've never made a 1-layer card...ever!

We've been enjoying some days off for Spring Break. Today was a break in the rain, so I took a picture of my card near a sunny window.

When you were a kid, did you do this type of squiggly drawings on a piece of paper and then color them in with Crayons or markers? Well, I thought I was alone on this until I saw a YouTube video by Courtney and she mentioned the same. Well, instead of Crayons, I used my growing supply of Copic markers. I went to a stamping convention on Saturday and I tripled my collection! Well, that was easy to do since I only owned 3 Copics before. Haha!

Thanks for stopping by!
Card Ingredients
Stamps: Everyday Button Bits (Papertrey Ink), Look Up (Practicing Creativity)
Paper: white (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko), Black Sharpie, Copic markers
Tools: Corner Rounder (We R Memory Keepers)
Other: Gray colored pencil (Crayola)

12 comments:

Tammy said...

Love the modern, abstract feel of your card! I SO used to do the squiggly line thing and colour in the spaces. In fact, I did a whole series of art pieces with them for my Senior art class in high school. I made my squiggly lines out of words--so there was always a hidden message in my design. Your card brought back some fond memories--thanks :)

Heather P. said...

Oh wow, I love this, it's SO COOL! :)

~amy~ said...

Nice work!!!!

Ayana Posadas said...

Oooh, I love this!
Looks Fantastic!

Jessica said...

Yes, I do remember this type of art!! Your card is phenomenal. I just love all those colors. Excellent job!!

Karen Giron said...

Oh I love this!!! I used to do that all the time and I tried to show my daughter and she just gave me this blank stare, bwahaha! This is a FAB idea for single layer cards - love it!!!

Lisa Petrella said...

LOVE this card!! Thanks for the inspiration!

~kelly marie~ said...

This is so cool and fun! I love it! I used to color that way too!

Winter said...

Cool card! I LOVE the colors and the design! :)

Paloma Gomez said...

Your card it's so original! I love the colors!

Haylie K said...

I love this card- so original!

Courtney Baker said...

I'm so so so glad you did this! I really makes me smile!