Thursday, August 6, 2009

Edwin appears in the August sketch!

This sketch was designed by Becca and I must just say, Becca you kicked my butt with this one!
I was working with Basic Grey paper on another project and was inspired by the little piece you see on the left. I wanted to use more of it, but I thought Edwin would get lost in the pattern!
So last night I colored Edwin to match the colors of the paper and the leaves to put behind him. Both images are part of the Animal/Pet collection which are in stock now for great prices at Magnolia-licious
if you want to go take a look! Join our Magnolia-licious yahoo group for further discounts!
I thought the second picture was a fun one! Look at the shadow of Edwin's lizard's tail! Yep, it's a sunny day!
I had the card put together so I made paper punch fake brads. I put Crystal Effects on them after they were glued onto the card.
This card is 5 1/2" square which brings up something I've been meaning to mention for awhile.
It can be difficult to fit our beloved Tildas and Edwins onto a nestability shape. I OFTEN to to my Petite ovals! I have the classic (straight edge) in the large and the small. There are several choices for ovals which are larger than the regular ovals! I also have the scalloped edge ones to go with the straight edge. Most of mine came from
7 Kids College Fund. Please see link to right and go to the Spellbinders section.
I hope you can see the sparkle on the lizard! My favorite Stardust stickles.



Here is my close up and I actually wrote the colors of markers down!
Here they are:
Hair Y21, E55, E25
Skin: E000, E93 and E01
Pants: E55, E57, E59
Lizard YG91, YG93, YG97 and YG0000
Leaves YG0000, YG91, YG93, YG97, YG99
Shoes YG91, YG95, YG97
Shirt: YR07, R17, Y38, YR07, R14, R24, R29, R59, YG25
(I just kept adding color until I got what I wanted!)
I've just gone to Random.org again because I did not hear from my Blog Candy winner and it's been days!
The WINNER now is number 63!! My winner is kat9 from Minnesota! She says she visits everyday! I hope so!
Kat please contact me at drowley01@earthlink.net so I can get your address!
(Did you know a set of those petite oval nestabilites is one of the prizes!)
Well, that's it for now! Have a wonderful day!
THANKS so much for visiting!
Cheryl

37 comments:

  1. This is SENSATIONAL> AMAZiNG... wow.

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  2. This is fabulous Cheryl. Your coloring is just amazing. If your blog candy winner never shows up, I'll take it off your hands. lol

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  3. WOW!! How gorgeous!! This is just amazing!!! I love the coloring!!!

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  4. AWESOME job with this sketch, Cheryl!!! FANTASTIC! You never cease to amaze me!

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  5. This is an amazing card Cheryl! Love it!

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  6. Fantastic card, Cheryl! Love the colors you used. Fantastic take on the challenge!

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  7. I love it!!! I love all outdoors and the beautiful greens of nature. Love how you tied all the parts of the card together.

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  8. Love your coloring! You make beautiful cards.
    ~Abbey97

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  9. Absolutley gorgeous! Love the coloring. I think the colors are so bright and vivid.

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  10. Cheryl great card what a awesome job you did with Edwin! I love the papers and colors.
    Hugs,
    Nancy

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  11. Hi Cheryl,
    Your card is so beautiful! The coloring is amazing. I love the theme you have going on. Boy cards are so hard to do, but you nailed it!

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  12. Wow Cheryl... you do such beautiful work!

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  13. Beautiful card! Love your pretty coloring too!! Yes, that lizard's tail is sooo cool!!
    Hugs
    Jodi =)

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  14. Cheryl
    You had done justice to Becca's sketch. I really like the leaves in the circles. They bring the forest scenario out.
    Sharon L

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  15. What a beautiful card Cheryl,i love the image and colours.
    So gorgeous papers.

    Hugs Riet.x

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  16. Wow, just stunning!! I had to laugh at the amount of colors you used for his shirt....but it turned out fantastic!!! I have the regular oval Nesties.....I knew there were also petites but never really checked them out! Thanks for sharing!

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  17. Wow! This is awesome, Cheryl! Your coloring is just beautiful and you've captured the colors so brilliantly! Love this card. Cami

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  18. This is just stunning. wow..your colouring is just amazing is not funny!

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  19. What a great card I love it, your coloring is great and I just love how you added the extra leaves

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  20. What a fun Edwin with that lizard on his shoulders! he looks a little older here too - a more grown up hair cut!! Your coloring is super as usual Cheryl! I'm taking a copics class tomorrow and I hope I pick up a few tricks!

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  21. Absolutely stunning!!!! I love how you put the leaves behind Edwin and carried it over to the small circle images. WOW

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  22. Great card, Cheryl...and such a wonderful treatment of the sketch, which to me was quite difficult also. The colors you have used are so appropriate and stunning for the subject...a very cute card, indeed...Hugs..Jacque

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  23. I love what you did with Becca's sketch! Great job!
    Huggies ~
    Sharron

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  24. Hi Cheryl!
    LOVE LOVE your card. The colours are amazing ~ I still can't get over your colouring!!!!!
    Fantastic take on Becca's Sketch too.......
    Hugs, Candy

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  25. This is amazing! You're coloring is just stunning!

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  26. Cheryl, your colored of these images is so stunning! I have to admit too it is a hard sketch to use for thinking outside th box. I am still working on mine.
    Hugs,
    Cabio

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  27. amazing this is soooo beautiful and so well coloured it looks if hy can walk of the picture
    hugs syl

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  28. So pretty, Cheryl! I love the colors and how you used the sketch! Great card!

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  29. This is soooo beautiful! It cartured my attention so much that I HAD to come and comment! Beautiful!!!

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  30. This card is amazing, love the coloring!

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  31. What a terrific card...The colors are wonderful.

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  32. ONCE AGAIN YOU AMAZE ME WITH YOUR DESIGN!!!! THANKS FOR LISTING THE COPIC MARKER #s YOU USED!!! I'M STILL LEARNING HOW TO CHOOSE COLORS TO BLEND.

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  33. Thank you, Thank you. I have just contacted you Cheryl about the candy. I am so happy. You are my first Candy winner.


    Kat9

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  34. Wooowwwww this is AMAZING!!! Coloring is perfect! WOW wow WOW
    Janine

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