House of Gilli

31.5.11

Flowers to the little ballerina

Hello! anaRy is in the House! Today is my turn to bring my project with flowers! I love ballet…and I have great memories of my classes. I holds a sweet spot in my heart for ballet ; ). My project using Gilli Celtic was inspired by the “Ballet The Swan Lake”. What a beautiful story…and the choreography is just divine.

Gilli Celtic was colored using copic markers. I used a series of Cs to create the base for the costume. I added brush strokes using copic multiliners to provide the texture and volume in hope to create the feather feel ( more details how to go about it on my blog). My flowers are prima flowers and I used distress inks to give a more distressed look. I kept one flower white…it was way to symbolizes even when things around you seems that are not going in the right direction…keep your focus on the bright side. It is hard sometimes…but the white flower of hope always will the there for you ; ). I hope you enjoyed my little project. I am sharing more tips and pictures on my blog….come over and you see how Gilli look when she put up her stage make up!
Huggies!

anaRy

♥♥ Would you love to learn getting the most of your copics? AHA! Come and have fun with a lot of us at Suzanne Dean Color me Creative Classes….oh you will be up for a treat! If you are in SC and NC hurry CMC on the road will be next to ya!

30.5.11

Dinner at Tiffany’s?

Dinner at Tiffany’s

Today I’m sharing a fun card for you with a lot of CLASS Smile She reminds me a bit of Audrey Hepburn albeit what Audrey would’ve looked like going to DINNER in the movie “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”. One of my fave color combos is hot pink and black—always fun and classy I think. I used a fabulous Gilli stamp by my friend Anary called “Lady Gilli” – isn’t she a cutie pie! This lil’ lady is for the current CHALLENGE here at the HOUSE OF GILLI—which is to use FLOWERS! Make sure to scroll down to see all the DT gals beautiful projects!

The papers I used (loveee them) are from Echo Park “Be Mine”---they are wonderful to use and love the smaller prints, perfect for us cardmakers. The sketch is from this week’s challenge Stamp With Fun—loved the multi-layers as I’m a bit of an layer addict myself, LOL. The black delicate border was made with my MS border punch and the oval cut with my Spellbinders got embossed with a CB embossing folder (d’Vine Swirls). The lacey flowers & leaves are actually paper that I die cut with some of my fave dies by Marianne Designs and topped with a Prima hot pink rose. A few rhinestones finish it off nicely for a touch of bling!

This Gilli got colored with Copics RV17,RV14,RV10 (they don’t work well together so you have to use the bridging technique to make them blend) /C9,C7,C5,C3,C1/E11,E00/R20. I gave her a black pearl necklace and earrings with a Viva Décor Pearl Pen in black. And to make her dress look like it’s made with sequins it got a healthy does of Stardust Stickles! She is glammed up for the nite for sure!