Bloomin' Fun!

Had a chance to play around with another die from my Cottage Cutz collection that has been collecting dust. Gotta be in the mood to do a lot of layering and chalking to work with these! This time around however, instead of using chalks, I decided to try using my copics to add color and shading.

Saw that a lot of the design team members over at the Cottage Cutz blog are doing this and acheiving beautiful results so I wanted to give it try. A few of the ladies use only white cardstock to cut all their pieces then use their copics to color everything in. I tried this with the mouse, since I wanted her to have a lot of white highlights, but used colored cardstock for everything else, using copics to add shading. I made the mistake of choosing Bazzill Bling to do the mouse, as I found the textured surface made it harder for me, a beginner level copic user to blend the colors nicely.   

Blending went a lot easier with the smooth surfaced cardstock I chose for the flowers. For the leaves and stems I went back to chalks, mostly because I didn't have the right green shades in copics. In comparison, I liked the final results with the copics, I just need to get better at using them. Chalks are messier, but easier to blend and a little more forgiving.

Each of the pieces were cut several times so I could do lots of layering for this sliding pop-up birthday card for my sil.Used Nestabilities Labels 2 die for the background and tiny ladybug is from the Just Because Cards cartridge. A time consuming, but fun to create card...LOL, this really ended up being a FAT card!