A Day For Daisies Showcase: It's a New Day

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Hello and happy Friday!

The A Day For Daisies design team is showcasing several fun images in a collection called It’s a New Day.  You can see them at the A Day For Daisies shop or on the ADFD blog.

Today I’ve colored up New Suit and created a fun watery background for her.

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This little darling was colored with my Copic markers and I paper pieced her “new suit”.  That, by the way, is the new challenge at the ADFD blog – Paper Piecing, or Piercing, if you like!

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To create the background I inked up one side of my Waves stencil with Versamark. laid my watercolor cardstock on top of it face down, and brayered the back of the cardstock to get a fair amount of the ink onto the grainy paper.  I quickly sprinkled on my white detail embossing powder and heat set it.  I didn’t need a really crisp image, because I only wanted to suggest the movement of the water in the background.

I “smooshed” Distress inks, Peacock Feathers, Mermaid Lagoon, and Cracked Pistachio, onto an acetate sheet, misted with water, then pressed the acetate onto my watercolor cardstock until I was happy with how it looked.

I added some Bokeh Dots with some white pigment ink, but the ink pad was a little dry so I pulled out my Wink of Stella clear pen and highlighted them.

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Next I die cut using my SSS Stitched Circles dies one at a time, starting with the smallest one and running it through the Big Shot with each die individually.  The largest circle is adhered onto the card front with a tape runner adhesive, the second circle is adhered with 1/16” foam mounting tape, and the smallest circle with 1/8” foam mounting tape.

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I added my precious little girl and some pieces from one of my all time favorite paper collections (which I may have been hoarding), Beach Babe from Fancy Pants, and called it done.

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I’m playing along with the MOJO Monday Sketch Challenge #402 this week:

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And also with the Curtain Call: Flip Flops inspiration challenge:

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Please play along with us, but first please check out the awesome creation of my fellow ADFD design team members:

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Arielle Broni Christine Juliana

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Thank you so much for dropping by today!  Enjoy your weekend!

ADFD New Suit	SSS *Copic BLENDING CARD X-Press It Paper Pack of 10	SSS* Copic markers	Distress Watercolor Cardstock	SSS Simon Says Stamp Stencil WAVES ssst121357 This is the Life
SSS*Versamark ink pad	SSS*EMBOSSING POWDER WHITE Fine Detail WhiteEP2 Stamptember	SSS*Ranger Heat Tool	SSS* Peacock Feathers Distress ink	SSS*Distress Ink Pad MERMAID LAGOON Ranger TIM43256
SSS*Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad CRACKED PISTACHIO TIM43218	SSS*STITCHED CIRCLES Wafer Dies sssd111456 In Stitches	Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps, Bokeh Dots by Julie Ebersole	Fancy Pants - Beach Babe 6x6	Zig Wink of Stella brush glitter - clear
Scotch double-sided foam tape	foam mounting tape - 1/8"

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Comments

[nise]

You just hurricane me away some days, Broni! Your water background is super-duper incredible genius!!! You are still the very best at sketch challenges and coloring. Seriously -- your BEAUTIFUL girl looks real!!! Saving your "beach babe" paper for extra special projects like this is perfectly acceptable. Hoard away, honey! Happy Weekend!

[Karen Pounds]

as always, I am amazed! You are so "think outside the box" and as always, I love it!

[ChristineCreations]

This is SUCH a great design Broni....from the cute little girl in her patterned suit, to that amazing background and such skillful use of this sketch! Wow!

[SmilynStef]

What an awesome take on the sketch ... I love the movement in your watery background and the red in the design just pops.

[Julee]

This is SOOOOOO cool! Love the beautiful background and subtle circles. Thanks for playing along with Mojo!

[Celeste Goff]

Wow, what a fantastic card! Your Copic coloring on the girl is amazing!

[Linda Beeson]

I just everything about your card! Makes me want summer to last forever

[Vickie Z]

Fantastic use of the sketch!! Love the watercoloring and beach girl!!

[Kelly Latevola]

Wow! Just wow! That background looks amazing!!