Souper Cool

Hi and welcome to another challenge from the team at Freshly Made Sketches.  Jen Mitchell is this week's hostess and here is her sketch:

For some reason I really struggled with Jen's sketch - nothing wrong with the sketch, it was the card-maker who wasn't in the zone!  In the end, I went through my stamp sets looking for pre-coloured images that I could use and came up with this card - not a favourite but it'll do.

I think I've mentioned here on my blog that since losing my son in June, I've really struggled with both card-making and coloring - both of these things should be therapeutic but my mind just can't focus for long enough to make it enjoyable.  I tried doing some Copic coloring over the Christmas break and gave up after an hour or so.  I truly hope that one day the pleasure I got from card-making and coloring will come back and I can enjoy it again.  So, in my desire for a colored image, I found one that I colored way back when this stamp set first came out.

Because this was colored so long ago, I can't tell you what Copics I used, sorry.  For the square panel, I clear embossed some of the smaller images from the set and quickly colored them with a cream Prismacolor pencil before die-cutting with an embossed edge die.  I die-cut another panel from Banana Split cardstock to match the image and offset that behind the Blueberry panel.

I gave the chef a sentiment to stand on to ground him somewhat.

Thanks for visiting.  Please check out the wonderful cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Recipe for Happiness (MFT)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Versamark, Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White, Blueberry, Banana Split (MFT), X-Press It

Dies:  Recipe for Happiness (MFT), Embossed Edge Squares (Kat Scrappiness)

Accessories:  Copics, Prismacolor Pencil, Clear EP

Cheers

Karren