Life is a Beach

Good morning!  Happy Monday!  Hope your week is off to a great start!  It's raining and thundering here this morning, but that's a just a good excuse to stay in and catch up on a few things.  I am popping by with a quick post to share the card I made for Coloring Challenge #2 on the Make it Crafty Facebook page.  This time it is all about coloring backgrounds and like the last challenge, there are three levels to enter - Easy: a colored background; Medium: sky with clouds; Hard: sunset with clouds.  Being the glutton for punishment that I am, I went with the hard challenge.

Here is what I came up with:

I created a simple card base with SU Ruby Red and patterned paper from the Echo Park Paradise Beach 6x6 pad.  My beach image is a digi that is aptly called The Beach from Make it Crafty.  I printed it on Make it Colour Blending Card and colored the scene with my Copics.    I added a bit of Antique Linen and Tarnished Brass Distress Stickles to the sand on the beach and island for some extra texture.  The sentiment is from Create With TLC.  the only embellishments were a few Wild Orchid Crafts flowers.  I wanted my colored image to be the main focal point.

Here are the Copic colors I used:

Sky: R14, YR09, YR04, Y35, YR21, YR02, YR30, V00, V01, V06 V20, B60, B000, B91, B93, B95, BV20, BV25

Sea: BG000, BG10, BG11, BG72

Sand and island: E30, E31, E33, E35

Shells and starfish: E93, E95

Palm trees: E25, G20, G21, G24, G28, YG97, YG01

OK, that's it for me for now.  Thanks for stopping by!  I am slowly making my way through your blogs, so I hope to be by to visit soon.