My best friend is going to have heart surgery in a couple of weeks so I wanted to make her a special card. It was quite a shock to hear since she is very active vibrant and full of life. Apparently a few years ago she had a heart attack and did not even know, she just recently went on Medicare so she went to her doctor for a check up and the doctor sent her to the hospital where they discovered the damage to her heart, she is so lucky. The surgery is not scheduled for another couple of weeks but I wanted her to know me and God are by her side.
I created this card following a sketch and a color challenge. I have had this Iris digital image for a while and always wanted to try and color it with the purple and yellow, well when the color challenge came up to use, black, tan, green, yellow, purple and lavender, I thought this was the perfect opportunity. Actually deep purple and bright yellow is one of my favorite color combinations. The Iris is a
Delicious Doodles image, I like their images because some of them have some shading in them already and that is one of my biggest challenges using my Copics.
The colors I used on the flower is V12, V15, V17 and for the yellow Y02, Y04.
Here is a closer look at them. Overall I am very pleased with how they turned out, with practice I will get better. The sentiment is a
CTMH stamp from the
Card Chatter - Sympathy set.
The inside I finished very simply carrying the same color theme to the inside and printed the digital image lightly. I will hand write a note to her when I am ready to send it.
Thanks for stopping by and I love to read your comments.
Challenges for this card
Make it Monday Always anything goes ends 7/14
Great Impressions Show us your coloring ends 7/31
Lil's Little Fairies Anything goes ends 7/11
Paper Take Weekly Anything Goes ends 7/9
18 comments:
This is a stunning card. I wish your friend a speedy recovery. Saw you on make it Monday.
Very beautiful card! Sending prayers for your friend!!
Great card Donna - very bright and happy. Saw it on MIM
Stamping Shanni
Wow this is absolutely beautiful!! Im sure you're friend will adore it and hope she recovers quickly!!
Saw you on MIM
Nat -x-
Beautiful!! Love the dry embossing.. the coloring is fantastic!
- Susan
http://scrapathousandwords.blogspot.com
A beautiful card to show you care, I'm sure your friend will love it. It's such a nice touch too to carry the decoration through to the inside of the card, you didn't post that bit on the MB so am glad you did here.
This is such a soothing pleasant card a...the color perfect !Saw your link on MIM
Cheers
Sonia
cardsandschoolprojects.blogspot.com
This is such a beautiful card! Love the colors. TFS
Saw you on Make it Monday - oh my this is amazing, I can't believe you coloured that flower, WOW:-) TFS
What a lovely card! Thank you so much for joining us at MIM this week! Don't forget to leave a comment for another entry and mention you saw them on MIM for a chance at our second prize! Good luck,
Rene :D
Just Beautiful! Glad I popped over from MIM!
Tara
Very pretty creation!
Btw, I found you on MIM.
I would be oh, so joyed if you joined us at Tuesday Alchemy http://tuesdayalchemy.blogspot.com for our No Work, Just Play challenge this week :)
Happiness!
Fantastic card and colours Donna. I saw this on MIM..Loz
Great coloring on the Iris (not easy to do)! Saw this on Make It Monday and had to have a closer look!
Hello. I saw this gorgeous card when I popped by from MIM..Faye
Hello. I saw this gorgeous card when I popped by from MIM..Faye
Saw this on MIM and such a lovely thought to send to your friend. I'm sure she will really appreciate it
x catherine
This is so pretty! Your coloring is gorgeous!! I am visiting from MIM.
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