Monday, April 16, 2018

Black, White, and Chartreuse

Have you checked out this color combo on the Power Poppy blog?  When I saw it, I had to play along!  Black, white, and chartreuse...what a dramatic color palate!  For this challenge I tried something a bit different.  I used colored pencils on black cardstock!  While the process was a tad more involved than usual, the results are worth the effort.

Printing the image, Bubbles and Fizz, on plain paper was the first step.  Next I cut a piece of white graphite paper and attached it to the back of the printed image (fyi, make sure you place the graphite paper with the correct side facing down...lol, I goofed on my first try).  Then I taped the image and graphite paper to the black cardstock, and traced the main lines in the image with a pencil.


After tracing the image, I removed it and the graphite paper to reveal a white image "stamped" on the black cardstock.


Let the coloring begin! I used 50% Warm Grey, Cream, and White for the spheres.  The leaves and stems are colored with Chartreuse, Olive Green, Apple Green, Spring Green, and Prussian Green.


A black and white stripped patterned paper, chartreuse card stock, white card stock, and a white die cut "hello" were all that was needed to complete a card.


Not sure what happened to the color in the card photo, it looks washed out, but the former photo shows the true colors.

Until next time...

6 comments:

  1. Awesome. Love how you colored on the black, it looks amazing. And the background paper is perfect. Nicely done.

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  2. Woah... that is brilliant! I have never transferred an image before but you did this with absolutely amazing results! Just gorgeous!

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    1. Thank you for the compliments, Julie! I too think it worked out well, especially for a first attempt.

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