Easter Wishes...

Hello!

Another Scenic Saturday has rolled around again and I'm back on the Bellariffic blog with a card celebrating Easter. Tiny Townie Bethany Paints Easter Eggs is just one of the many sweet Easter images at Stamping Bella and I can't believe that I haven't colored her up before now.

Before I dove into coloring this pretty little painter I first found a colorful patterned paper that I could pull my entire color palette from. This is always a fun challenge that helps me practice mixing and matching marker colors to create just the right shade. Bethany is as pretty as a picture surrounded by all of her Easter eggs and I added a blooming forsythia bush by hand behind her to brighten up the scene a bit more. The sentiment is from the Easter Sentiment set and I heat embossed it in white to stand out against the green grass. The next time you are stuck for what colors to use on an image, search through your craft stash and take a cue from a sheet of patterned paper, whether you use the paper on your card or not.  :)

Stay crafty my friends!

Supply list:
cardstock- Papertrey Ink and Catherine Pooler
pattern paper- Simple Stories
stamps- Stamping Bella (Tiny Townie Bethany Paints Easter Eggs and Easter Sentiment set)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Versamark watermark
Hero Arts detail white embossing powder
My Favorite Things stitched rectangle stax set 1
Trinity Stamps dainty scallop rectangle die
Pear Blossom Press gold gel pen
Ranger glossy accents
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, E04, R00, R20
hair- E21, E53, E55, E57
clothes/flowers- E40, W00, W1, W3/YG21, YG91, UG93, YG95, YG97, Y11, Y21, Y26, BG32, BG72, R000, R30, RV42, YR20, YR21, YR14, E81
paint pail/brush- C00, C0, C2, C4, C5/W5, W8, C4, E43, E44, E47/Y11, Y21, Y26
eggs- BG10, BG32, BG72, BG75/R000, R30, RV42, E04, YR20, YR21, YR14
sky- BG0000, BG000, BG10, BG70, BG72, 0
grass/bush- YG01, YG21, YG91, YG93, YG95, YG97/E44, Y11, Y21, Y26