Lenten Rose ~

Hello!  How are you all doing?  Geez, it’s been quiet on this old blog.  I can’t seem to get the want/need up to post here.  I’ve been creating some things for submission to the Paper Crafts Stamp It! Cards Volume 9 call, so I don’t have much that I can post. 
One of my crafty resolutions this year is to focus on submitting and selling my cards more.  I have soooooo many cards just hanging around my craft room – it’s ridiculous!  So hopefully I’ll be setting up my little acs paper creations store blog pretty soon.  It’s been a blog site for ??? how long!  It’s time to finally bite the bullet and sell some of these cards {crossing fingers!}.   I’ll tell you about another crafty resolution if I actually get a card done for it.  What about you?  What are your crafty resolutions for 2012?
Ok, so back to the real reason for this post…my mother-in-law has a birthday coming up in a few days.  I would like to be a bit more prepared for events in the coming year…we’ll see how that turns out, as it is always a resolution of mine…so I started on this around the 1st of the month!  lol  Ever since I saw this card on Leslie Miller’s blog, I’ve wanted to re-create it.  It’s just so beautiful!  With mojo lacking, I went ahead and gave mine a go.  This is Lenten Rose by Flourishes.  I chose to color with Copics since my fave thing to color is flowers and water coloring with distress inks just isn’t my forte! ;o)

To shadow around the image, I had used E41 and E42.  When I went to sponge Antique Linen ink around the edges because the rest of the card was all too white, I found that the colors did not go at all!  Aack!  So I had to color a thick line of E42 around the entire edge and the cut out edge in the center and then blend it in with E41, as well as soften the edges of everything with the colorless blender.  While the crisis was diverted in the long term, I wish it were a bit smoother looking.  A sweet little silk bow, some Copic colored pearls and some clear star Sakura sparkle pen in the flowers finish this off!  Hope she loves it!  Thanks for stopping by ;o) lyss

Challenges:
 The Pink Elephant #131: favorite colors (warm shades of red)
 Papertake Weekly: Buttons, Bows, Bling & Blooms  (all but the buttons)
 Let’s Ink It Up #19: Anything Goes