Aurora Wings Blog Challenge - Crop It!

Mitzi has honoured, and surprised me by asking me to be a Guest Designer for her September Challenge, Crop It! I can't even begin to tell you how excited, scared, thrilled and amazed I am. Where to begin? Mitzi has so many amazing designs to chose from, and at this point in time, a lot of my art has been Steampunk themed. I have several of her Steampunk images, so I knew I'd be picking one of those.

I printed Steampunk Angel onto X-Press It Copic Blending Card and coloured her using my Copic markers.

Dress - Red: R22, 37, 59, T10
Dress - Beige: E40, 42, 44
Skin: E50, 51, 11, 23
Metal: Y26, 28, YG93, R02
Wings: E23, 25, 29, 79
Hair: E33, 25, 79
Shading: N0, 3, 5

I used Distress Ink, Antique Linen very lightly across the background. Once coloured, I cropped her, distressed the edges, and added more of the Distress Ink to the edges. I have some awesome 6x6 papers from Marion Smith Designs, Timekeeper. I loved the brown gear-filled paper, and a red 8x8 paper from a Tim Holtz paper pack. Unfortunately, I can't tell you the name of the paper pack, as I've used many of the sheets already, and didn't keep the front page.

I clear embossed the red paper with Distress Embossing Ink and clear powder using Inkadinkado's Steampunk Holly in the bottom left corner, and Xtimes Flies in the top right corner. I used a black matting on the red paper, and matted the brown paper with the cardstock I used for the card itself. For embellishments, I found some 7/8 inch brown and 3/8 inch red ribbons. I used some red tuille for a bow, glued on a gear with a matching gem, and a couple of feathers in the top right corner. In the bottom right corner, I used some gears from Tim Holtz's Idea-ology collection. On the left side, I had some small keys (unknown company) and attached them to a Steampunk clock-like geared component....... a whatchamacallit as my mom would have said.

Here's the finished card.

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Posted by Hillbilly Rooster
Comments 2
Another gorgeous entry from you, Jody! I love how you cropped the Viridis Incendia image into a circle, as the image has a lot of circular movement going on. The color palette is lovely, and I love your interpretation of the sketch from AW's FB group contest for August, too. Thank you for this lovely entry in our Elements challenge at Aurora Wings. Mitzi xx
Jody, you are ROCKIN' these challenges! I really get the feeling of air movement, not only in the image, but also your paper choices for the circles. Another fab entry for BOTH the challenges. Thanks so much for joining us at Aurora Wings. xxD
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