Friday, August 1, 2008

Swirls Again!



Lovin the swirls! :)

It's hard work, but I love the end result. They just look so beautiful. This card was made for the same person, my mom's colleague. He wanted it for someones birthday.

I discovered making swirls recently so I had to make one card specially based on swirls.





The card was looking quite empty, I drew a butterfly, coloured it up with the same colour pencil (I really wanted this colour to be the MAIN colour of the card). Enhanced it with some shading, embossing paste and glitter. One more empty space filled! LOL. I have been trying to get my hands on this sea-green colour but no luck at all. Just when I gave up any hope of getting this colour paper, I discovered I had a colour pencil just the same shade I wanted! So the light green parts you see in the card are coloured by a colouring pencil :)


Okay so this is no punched scallop shape or whatever you guys call it. This one is made using a compass. I individually drew semi circles and then cut this shape up. This is why a couple of them are a little different from the rest, and obviously the edges are not as neat as you get when you use punches. I wanted to write happy birthday in the circle but it was not appealing to me, so I made a flower and loved how it started looking. I did one more thing...



Inside the card I added this little print out. Coloured it up and did my thing with it, the colouring, glittering, faux stitching etc. Added a frame kinda thingy, just to liven it up a bit.

10 comments:

Bev said...

You put us all to shame with what you manage to make! These swirls are fantastic!!! Again, I am in awe!!!

Sonia said...

Great cards, thanks for leaving such a lovely comment on my blog :)
Sonia x

SmilynStef said...

It is so amazing to me what you are able to make with your limited supplies ... this is absolutely gorgeous and I do love those colors.

Tru said...

Gorgeous card, love the butterfly. I've left you an award on my blog. I've also changed blogs my new address is www.madebyme79.wordpress.com
Have a great weekend.

Charmaine (CharmWarm) said...

Just beautiful! I LOVE all of the glitter!

Shannan Teubner said...

This is gorgeous! What talent you have!

Annapurna said...

Love the swirls and the butterfly. Great job cutting all those out and all the sponging.

Amy Sheffer said...

This is incredible!! Such amazing detail!!

Annapurna said...

The coloring around the layers that looks like shading is done with color pencils? Oh my, you aaare talented.

Shirley said...

What a gorgeous card, ET. Beautiful colors and design!