Feb Swirly Hues Entry - Finally

And without further adieu here it is. The final page for the February 2012 Swirly Hues Challenge over at Swirlydoos. The challenge was to use a set colour palette, (pink, orange, and light blue), combined with an interpretation of another stunning beggahuna sketch, and combining the use of a swirlydoos tutorial. And here is the resulting outcome. It actually does look much deeper and richer in person, but given that the weather has been so bad here there was not a great deal of natural light to really bring out that depth.

For the tutorials i have actually used two techniques displayed on the forums. Firstly the title has been created based upon the Sugared letter tutorial of the most talented Lisa G.  As you can see below i have inked some base white thickers alphabets, with 3 colours of tim holtz distress inks (Tumbled Glass, Spiced Marmalade, and Fired Brick) and then coated with some glossy accents, before being covered in  Martha Stewart clear glass microbeads. Now the only change to my technique is the fact that i chose not to stamp into the background before putting the beads on as i wanted more of a sunset look to the letters rather than a texty etc look.

The second tutorial which i chose to use was a little older one by another of our talented members and former designer Bonnie. Bonnie showed us how to dye ribbon with tim holtz distress inks, and using this instruction i have used the Distress stain in Tattered Rose which came with this months Swirlydoos kit to dye the scrunched ribbon also in the kit this month, to match the pink colour of the flowers and the rest of the page. 

A big thanks to all the girls who have contributed the the tutorial sections and providing us with sooooo much inspiration to work from!! 

Staying with the Tim Holtz theme the corners of each page have been stamped with a Heartfelt Creations Stamp from the Feather Grass Flourish Set, covered in TH embossing ink and then followed up with TH embossing powder (Faded Jeans) to get that weathered type look and feel. A Martha Stewart leaves punch was used to get the little pink branches, which were punched from cardstock from the feb kit and then treated to a TH Tattered Rose distress stain bath. Most of the flowers are Prima Printery Collection also from the from the feb kit, but there are also a few i have made up myself poking out here and there.

If you would like any further info, please don't hesitate to ask!! I'm only too happy to answer anything i can and comments are really cool!!

Thanks for taking the time to pop in

Take Care Now

Tammy