Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Tag Tuesday - Summer Flowers

This is a bit of an experiment that didn't turn out like I wanted it to. The theme for Tag Tuesday is Summer Flowers. This morning, Michelle Zindorf posted a tutorial where she used Prismacolors on black card stock. It is so stunning - I wanted to try it! No fancy colored pencils tho....I've never been big on coloring. I had a couple lying around (probably cast offs from my kid's old school supplies). I gave it my best shot, but it is absolutely nothing like hers! Guess I need some more practice......and maybe better pencils?

I added some homemade shimmer spray and thought it kinda came out looking like she was in a garden at nighttime. Use your imagination! ;-)

My flower stamp is from Starving Artistamps and the girl is from ARTchix (no longer available).

17 comments:

  1. Hi Shelly! Thanks for the comment on my tag! I love your experiment.....and she does look as if she's in a night-time garden. Pretty tag!

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  2. Beautiful work !!
    Hugs June xx

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  3. Yup, sometimes you can skimp and sometimes you can't....lol! Prismacolors are the best.
    But I love the evening in the garden look about your tag, it's lovely!

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  4. That really is a fun technique that you tried. When you play around with it a little I think you will find that lighter, brighter colors work better. You did achieve a great night garden look with those deep colors so your experiment was a success!!

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  5. I like the night-time garden effect you achieved here:)

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  6. Your tag is lovely, Shelley...the flowers look lovely on the black background and I love your collage image.

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  7. Well I think your tag looks great. Nice flowers.

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  8. Great tag. Looks like she's tiptoeing through the tulips, oops, no, not tulips. anyway, it's a nice technique the color on black.

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  9. Wow, I love the background. Great composition too!

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  10. I love summer time in the garden, I can almost smell those flowers, you just never know what you will discover when you experiment!

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  11. This is so pretty - like a fairy flitting through the garden at night!

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  12. Hi Shelly,
    Grrr-eat tag! Thanks for your recent "visit" to my blog.
    Barb

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  13. it looks great, she could have helped me with the sheep in the dark yesterday .nice contrast of the bookpaper against the black

    thanks for that link, I 'll go and experiment as well.( although I hate colouring too)

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  14. This tag is fabulous, I love what you have done. Keep experimenting I say. Cheers!

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  15. Night time gardens are cool, too, Shelly! I like how this came out.

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  16. This is definitely tres jolie! I love it!

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Thanks so much for taking the time to share your thoughts. I appreciate your comments so much!