Wedding Cake - New Beginnings CCC Challenge 101

Again I am extremely thrilled to be a Guest Designer on the Crafty Creations Challenge blog this month.

This week the challenge was to make something for a "new beginning"; birth, wedding, engagement, etc.........  That was the only limitation for the challenge so it was pretty wide open and it will be very interesting to see the different project created by all the amazing talent out there.  Go ahead give it a try and post your creation using the link on the CCC blog.
I have a couple of weddings coming up this year so it was easy for me to chose which new beginning I wanted to use.  I made this wedding cake using a digital image from My Grafico, if you are like me you are always looking for new digital images, check them out.

 There was not a lot to color on this image but the white was just too plain, so I shaded it around the edges and lines with very very light chalk using light blue and gray.  You can not really see it in the photo but it does give it depth in person.  The wedding colors are dark blue & silver, so I used papers in those colors that have a very shimmery/pearlized look to them.  I get the paper from Paper and More, they have such pretty papers and their customer service is outstanding, order some samples and see for yourself, plus shipping on the samples in only $1, can't beat that.
I colored the flowers and leaves using my ProMarkers that you can purchase at Carpediem Store for only $1.49 each.  I used Blue Pearl and Cobalt Blue on the flowers, for the leaves I used Meadow Green and Apple.  After I colored the flowers I put Ranger Crackle Accents on them, which gave them an unusual look, here is a close up to see the effect it gave them.

I printed and colored the image twice and the bottom off of the top one and pop dotted it on top of the other one, I like the way it gave the cake more dimension.  The cake was mounted on Spellbinder Labels Ten.  The "wedding wishes" was stamped and heat embossed with a dark blue embossing powder.

I also finished the inside using one of those same Spellbinder labels, the sentiment was computer generated and the paper that I printed it on does not dry very fast so with embossing powder in hand I pour it on as soon as it came out of the printer and I was able to emboss the inside.  I edged it using one of Martha Stewart edge punches.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I would love to here your comments.   Again stop by Crafty Creations Challenge and check out all the other talent.

Digital Image - Girl with flowers

I got this free digital image by participating in a challenge this week at
Crafters Digital Art Center, here is a link CDAC. They have several challenges each week so please do check them out. This card also follows one of the sketches for RAQ's Challenge this week on the Cricut message board.
On to my card, it did give me fits as I kept changing what coloring medium I was going to use.   First I tried coloring it with my Copic markers and that was a disaster!  It was so bad that I won't even show you a picture.  I have a lot of learning to do with using Copics.  I knew I could do better with my Prisma Pencils and OMS so the image was colored that way.   I printed the image on Paper Temptress Cryogen White paper which is so pretty as it has a slight sparkle to it and works well with both Copic markers (my problem wasn't the paper is my coloring)and the Gamsol coloring techniques.  The challenge was to use embellishments on the image itself.  That also ran into a re-due for me :(, as you will see in the pictures.  I cut the image using the Nesties Scallop Ovals,  I would have used my Cricut but I am not to good at the center point cut and knew I could cut exactly where I wanted with the Nesties.

Here is my first try at it with the small flower embellishments on the flowers on the image.....

I think the flowers were a little too big and covered her face, besides you could not see the stems so it was hard to tell she was holding the bouquet.  So back to the drawing board, took those flower stickers off and colored the flowers with my Prismas and then put rhinestones in the center and also put a small rhinestone for the button on her shoe.  I think this looks much better, don't you?

The colors of the papers don't show up too well, this is so much prettier in person.  The back ground paper is a light time green with blue, purple and pink flowers on it, the paper is from a K & Company stack.   Here is a close up of the image

After all that in the end I think it came out pretty cute, let me know what you think.  I love comments, thanks.