Beautiful and Bold

Hi Everyone! I have been part of a fun card swap with the team from Scrappy-Go-Lucky and this is one of my favourite ever cards I have made!

I was given a theme, (Can you guess?) and went looking about on the internet for different pictures on that theme for inspiration.

I found this painting below by Fine Artist Elaina Wagner.

I am a huge fan of Glossy Accents and love using it excess lately to make things look glossy, especially embossed paper. I made a plain card out of black bazzills, cut three hair pieces and put them through the Cuttlebug with the Wood Grain folder. I gently inked Stazeon over the raised pieces and used Glossy Accents to higlight strands of hair. I added a rounded face in white card and inked it with Weathered Wood Distress ink to define cheeks. I made some lips in black card, used white gel pen to higlight it and put three layers of Glossy Accents to give it a real lip gloss and puffy lip look.

I drew the eyes and nose using black watercolour pencils and used a few layers of Glossy Accents and a rhinestone in the pupil to give it a glossy eye ball appearance. I also used Silver and Gunmetal Stickles to make eyelashes.

I made the mask from white bazzills and ran it through the Cuttlebug using the Swirls folder. I embossed the whole mask with Bridal embossing powder and Tiara Stickles to border it.

I used a piece of black and white ribbon as the mask holder and layered a flower using Sure Cuts a Lot and a two different flowers I found on clip art. I split them apart in SCAL before cutting. Here are the images you can save to your computer and use the Trace Image function to transport them into SCAL if you like it.

White glossy pen and more Glossy Accents finished the flower off very nicely.

I love the boldness of her face and seeing the ten cards together on my bookshelf was an awesome sight! Make sure you check out more cards this week on Scrappy-Go-Lucky! I have received some in the mail, they are so gorgeous! You are all in for a treat!

So... Just add a comment to my post and you can be in a random draw from Scrappy-Go-Lucky to win one Scrapcessories Cartridge Caddy with one cartridge insert today. These are ideal for storing your Cricut cartridges, in particular your solutions or seasonal cartridges which do not come with their own binder. Scrappy-Go-Lucky will post your prize anywhere in Australia. International blog hoppers are welcome to enter but will need to pay postage to their respective destinations.

All you need to do to enter is add a comment to the card creator's post.


One Scrapcessories cartridge caddy winner will be drawn for each days major posting.


All winners will be drawn at random on Tuesday 2nd November.

Tomorrow head back to Scrappy-go-Lucky and find the next great creation to see and leave a comment. One chance every day this week!


GOOD LUCK!

Chloe :)