Cardmaking: The day God has made

I am still happily busy colouring and having fun turning these colouring projects into cards. The idea behind this mini blog series is to show how one can incorporate a number of colouring materials and mediums into a single project. I use pens, pencils and crayons together when colouring today's picture with a theme that honours God for having made this special day.

I took the picture from this book.

This is the picture which appealed to me for the project.

I removed the picture from the book by tearing along the perforation, before I started.

I started by cutting the picture and the words out.

I also salvaged the background butterflies.

I then used Faber Castell Pitt Pens with brush tips to colour the butterfly. I used a metalic pen to colour the body of the butterfly.

I used Giotto Turbo Markers to colour the vegetation.

I then touched the background with a Faber Castell Gelatos stick and used a wet wipe to apply very gentle colour to the background.

Then I used a straw to blow on a Giotto Glitter Marker to colour the remaining flowers very subtly.

I used the same method to add some red bling to the wings of the butterfly.

I folded an A4 sheet of cardboard in half to create a card and used double-sided tape to fix the coloured picture to the card.

I used a Faber Castell Pitt pen with a small point to draw a stitch line around the picture.

I twisted the wings of one of the discarded butterflies around a rounded tool to give the wings some dimension.

Then I glued the body of the butterfly down in one corner of the card.

I glued the wording and the remaining butterflies to the inside of the card.

I came back afterwards and drew black stitch lines around the wording as well, which gave it a more finished appearance.

The completed card.

You can watch a compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/7e1LMiCTG4U

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