Make It Colourful #22 - my first DT card

Hi bloggers, crafters, colourers and visitors, today is a new challenge at Make It Colourful, and it's a special one for me as it's my first time as member of the Design Team. Yes, for those that missed yesterday's post, I'm on the Z-List (that's Zoe's List, way better than the A-List, he he). The challenge this time is to:

COLOUR WITH BLUES

You can use other colours in your colouring, but blues need to be featured somewhere. 

We are sponsored by Tiddly Inks, and one lucky person will win a prize from them. If you use a Make It Crafty image in your project you will be entered into a second draw and have another chance of winning a prize of 2 more Make It Crafty images. Nice, eh?

Some of the Design Team have used Tiddly Inks images, and all of us have used Make It Crafty images. If you pop over to the main blog you'll see their stunning creations, and full challenge rules are there too. Sunday is 'hints and tips' day, so you might find something useful to you about using blues in your colouring.

Here is my tip for colouring with blues:  blue-green shades are great for water; a bit of dark blue brings in some shadows, and is also good to help give the look of deeper water further away from the coastline.

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So, on to my DT card....I used Paint.net to merge 2 Make It Crafty digi images: the girl is one image, and the background of the beach, ocean and island is another one. I moved the sea shell and star fish to another position in the scene, and coloured it all up to show a sunny day. I think the finished result has the look of a postcard or a holiday photo, what do you think? I used one set of blues for the dress and ribbon, a brighter blue for the sky, and the water is made from blue-greens (scroll down to the card recipe to find out the exact shades I used). Instead of designer papers, I used coredinations cardstock with a white coating, which I embossed and sanded - I felt the whitewashed weathered look would suit the carefree beach vibe.  Some flowers, a little ribbon and a sentiment ticket complete the card. Hope you like it.

Card Recipe:

Images: Summer Dreams, and The Beach, by Make It Crafty

Colouring: Copic markers -  Sky: B00

Dress & Hat Ribbon: B000-B32-B34-B37-B39

Water: BG000-BG72-BG75-B97

Prima flowers and Tim Holtz adage ticket

Coredinations whitewashed cardstock and flower ribbon from stash

I'm entering this is these challenges:
Aud Sentiment Challenge - Summertime
Bling It On - Embossing (my background is embossed and sanded)
C.E.S. Challenges - Inspired by a movie ("The Beach")
Deep Ocean Challenge - anything goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Paper Pretties - Summer
Shabby Tea Room - Embossing
Spoonful of Sugar - Here Comes Summer
Sundays With Chrissy - Here Comes The Sun
Totally Gorjuss - Flower Power
Totally Papercrafts - Summer
Whoopsie Daisy - Free and Easy

Thanks for looking and for any comments you might like to leave. Have a good weekend everyone.