Guest Artist ~ Lisa Somerville!

I'd like to share a creation by Lisa Somerville. Not only is she talented, she is a wonderful friend. Lisa doesn't have a blog. She is busy elsewhere on the web, especially with her contributions to www.patstamps.com and concept design work for Lasting Impressions with Panache and Innovative Stamp Creations.

Lisa's SCS gallery is here if you'd like to check out her work.

Even though Lisa doesn't blog, I really wanted to feature some of her art here on my blog because she is really talented.

Here is a lovely spring card in which Lisa shared with me:



Lisa says:

The coloring on the image itself is done with watercolor crayons and the aquapainter. (stamped image in stazon let dry, then placed and outline on my image with the watercolor crayons and then used the aquapainter to draw the color inward)

The background coloring on the cardstock behind the image is done with the Spritz and Flick Technique from the 02/07 TJNL (VERY EASY to do)

I love the open image stamps - as I find them very accommodating to different techniques. When I created the background for this card I was going for a soft spring like feel - as I knew what stamp I wanted to use as my focal image, and thought they came together well. I matted my card in Regal Rose to draw attention to my focal image, then again under my spritz cardstock. To further pull into the card, I added the Celery base cardstock which coordinated with my card and gave it a finished look.

Thank you Lisa! Your colors on this card are stunning. I'll be trying this technique for certain.