There is a story behind this little digital cutie by Elisabeth Bell. When I wa coloring the image with copic alcohol markers, I went outside the lines pretty significantly on the upper part of her right arm…. in RED! Ugh! I tried and tried to push the red back into her jacket with the blender pen, but I ended up with a horrible mess. And of course, I did that at the very ending of the coloring. Not one to give up, or waste all that time I was coloring her, I cut her out. But you see all those little strands of hair? I cut off one of them by mistake. Not daunted, I then copied another image the same size, and colored only her hands, her legs and feet, and the hair strands that stick out from her body. Then I sponged the background in green and grounded that image with two shades of brown. Next I finished cutting out the original image, cutting off all but one of the strands of hair, and her legs and feet. I popped her up with dimensional tape, and voila, image saved.
That’s not the end of the story, though. While I was trimming the background image I didn’t notice that I had cut it crooked, and it was so close to the top of her head I couldn’t straighten it up without cutting off part of hair. By now I had invested a lot of time and it looked like I was going to have to toss her. I remembered seeing some gorgeous cards where the focal image was added asymmetrically, so I figured, what the heck. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. This is what I ended up with, and I bet if I didn’t tell you it was cut crooked, you wouldn’t see it. How’s that for a save?
Hi Linda; Great card and coloring. It just goes to show that we card makers can adapt and recover from just about any mistake. The mistakes are just giving us artistic permit to improvise.
Thanks for sharing.
Have a GREAT DAY!!!
Bob L.
http://www.happycardmaker.blogspot.com
Well Linda this turned out just wonderful!!! Way to save the day!!!! Cheers, Lora Sinkler-Lake http://www.crazystamper.typepad.com