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The other day you may have caught my very sneaky preview of the image on today’s card. Well, it’s now time to show you the image in all its glory! I think you’ll see why I fell in love as soon as I saw the stamp, and why I fall a little more in love with Carmen Medlin’s art with each release!
You can find Carmen Medlin for SCACD Stamps designs IN THE US at Susana’s Custom Art & Card Design and IN THE UK/EUROPE at Quixotic Paperie.
The new release will be available in both the US and UK/EUROPE on 20th May 2011.
Meet – THE TRAVELLERS.
As you can see, Zoe was pretty close with her initial feeling (posted in the comments on my WOYWW post) – the mystery element in my sneaky peek was a wolf! I LOVE wolves.
You will notice, I didn’t use my trusty Copics on this one! I broke right out of my comfort zone and played with DISTRESS INKS! The image was watercoloured entirely with Distress Inks.
The gorgeous papers are Graphic 45 – Le Cirque. The bow was tied with my Bow-Easy. The chipboard corners are from a Make It Crafty Lasercut Chipboard pack. I created the sentiment myself on the computer – it is a proverb.
The entire release from Carmen has a beautiful elegance to it. The faces on all the characters are STUNNING, and there is one cutie in there that I dare you to try and resist! I cannot wait to share them all with you!
Hope you’ve enjoyed my preview. Some of the other SCACD designers will be showing off other images from the new collection over the next few days!
CANDY ALERT: Susana is giving away a fantastic prize, including a full set of the new release, to ONE lucky winner. To be in with a chance, all you need to do is comment on each of the sneak peek posts over the next few days. A winner will be drawn at random from the comments left on the designers’ blogs. Full details on the prize can be found over at the SCACD Store Blog. The winner will be drawn after 7pm PST on May 19th.
OTHER NEWS: The fabulously talented Melanie Holtz of My Paper Blessings has joined the SCACD Design Team! I love working with Melanie, so it’s a pleasure to be on another team with her! Welcome, Melanie. 🙂
This is a gorgeous stamp!! I love the girl – she reinds me of Belle from Beauty and the Beast!! Your colouring is amazing!!! Hugs xx
Wow this is very romantic card.
This is a wonderful stamp and your coloring is amazing. Beutiful work.
Oh wow, STUNNING Elaine honey!!!
I just love your card!! The papers and colors you used work perfect with the lovely stamp set!
Thanks for this chance to win.
Wow, you are an amazing artist. Do you ever come to the Dallas are to give classes?
Would love to be your student–I am just a beginner, but love coloring even thou they have never looked like yours! I hope that this collection has boy images. I have a family of guess what–men. Sons, grandsons and even the dog was a male! Love your card and look forward to the Friday. Blessings.
Ooooh….I love this! what a beautiful image and your coloring is outstanding! I can’t wait until these stamps become available. Thanks for the inspiration!
PERFECTION!!! As always, you have brought this striking image to life with your gorgeous coloring!! I cannot wait to see the masterpieces you create with the other beautiful images from this collection:)
Hugs!!!
Carolyn
Beautiful image and your coloring gorgeous! Thank you for sharing.
Oh my goodness!!! This is absolutely stunning! I love this type of stamping. Your coloring is exquisite as well as the design!!! Beautiful work!
I love animals and this is colored so realistic, just beautiful!
a beautiful stamp and you coloring is just awsome. the papers and all the colors go so well togheter. just wonderful. hugs
OMGoodness! Yours is the first blog I’ve come to so I’m overwhelmed, both by the image itself and by your coloring of it. Just simply beautiful!! Looking forward to seeing all the others. THANKS!
Oh my Elaine this is BRILLIANT!!!! So very elegant and majestic 🙂 Great proverb!!
The beauty you bring out in your work is beyond words 🙂
Hugz and blessings
Wow! This is a beautiful lady indeed. Love your technique of watercoloring with distress ink.
What an angelic face! She is so much prettier than the chubby faced cherubs one sees all over the stamping world. I can’t wait to order hr.
Wow, what an amazingly colored card. Looks like these images need to be on something besides cards. Fabulous artwork !!
Beautiful card. And the saying you chose is so apt.
Absolutely gorgeous!!
I simply adore the coloring. I have always been partial to copics but this inspires me to try out my hand in distress inks.
wow love this stamp and the great job you did! I have never used distress inks this way I might have to play around with them. Have been in love with my copics, but not that good yet. tfs Tami
Sooo very gorgeous Elaine! Your coloring is always outstanding no matter what medium you use! I love it!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Hugs,
Iris
Your work is always gorgeous. I love this image.
I love the image. It isawesome and your coloring on this is breathtaking. I love the proverb also. GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! This is stunning! I wouldn’t of thought of watercoloring with DI inks.
This is STUNNING!!!
Gorgeous creation and so beautifully colored. “Hugs” Carol
This is a gorgeous card!! The image is so beautiful and your coloring is as always (no matter what medium you use) fabulous!!
What a beautiful stamp and card.
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME Elaine!!! Wa aaaaaaaaaay cool coloring too!!!
Love n hugs,
Lori
Very beautiful!!!
Look at you using the distress inks!! You are a master at those as well as the copics!! Totally gorgeous, wow!!
What a beautiful card – the whole thing has a sense of travel – your coloring is sooooo beautiful and perfect and the papers are such a great match for this set. Love it – have a great week. Hugs, Sharon :o)
Love how you colored this beautiful image with the distressing inks.
Carmen’s ladies are all so pretty! Great job with the coloring.
Carmen always makes such lovely stamps. Her images are just so beautiful and you have done such a wonderful job with this creation. I just love what you have done with this card
Great job using the distressing inks. I had no idea they would look that nice. Thanks for sharing! You did a wonderful job.
beautiful card! love the watercoloring!
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Awesome! Great card too.
What a beautiful image. Your coloring is terrific! Nice job.
I could just sit and look at your card! It is so beautiful!! The way you used the distressed inks is amazing. Then the DPs, well, they make the entire card feel like a starry night with the beautiful woman and wolf standing in the moon lite. It all comes together so beautiful!! I need this set!!!
What a gorgeous image this is Elaine! And your coloring really brought them to life. Very striking! Love that sentiment too. hugs, Angela
Oh WOW! Beautiful image and absolutely gorgeous coloring! Your whole card is wonderful! Great job! ~kurlygirl Kurly-Q
Oh my word this is absolutely GORGEOUS Elaine!!! LOVE LOVE your coloring and these papers are soooo beautiful!
Elaine, please delete my prior comment, for some reason it’s listing me as r.
Beautiful image and your Distress ink coloring is amazing!! Whoppee!!!
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Gorgeous stamp! I can;t wait to see the rest of this line! I love the way you colored the image using watercolored distress inks, very cool!
Love the idea of not using copics…just a beautiful card.
OH my goodness golly!!! This is one of the most gorgeous things I’ve seen in a while, wow! I too truly love your coloring, your paper choices, those corners, wow, what a wonderful creation!
Wow! Gorgeous stamp! I love the way she looks with the distressed inks. I’ll have to try that at some point. Love this!
Totally awesome coloring!! Love this image!
This stamp is beautiful and the coloring is awesome. you are so talented,
I love this new stamp. the girl has real personality , I love her and her dog .
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I love this new stamp. the girl has real personality , I love her and her dog .And I think the whole card is perfect , coloring and every detail .
Your coloring is just amazing! I couldn’t imagine doing that with just Distress Inks.
gorgeous work Elaine, your colouring is always amazing x
very nice!
Wow, the shading on this card is incredible! TFS!
It looks lovely, Elaine! Wonderful colors. 🙂
This is gorgeous! What a great stamp image as well.
Elaine,
This is such a fantastic image; you are so talented! Your colouring and choice of colours is also amazing.
Hugs,
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Wow how romantic I love your colors and the stamp
This is stunning. Lovely image and lovely coloring.
Great card so pretty love the image
How very elegant. Love the rich colors.
Gorgeous stamp … your colouring is fabulous!
lovely card Elaine. I really like this stamp,Thanks for sharing!
You’ve done a wonderful job with the distress inks. I so agree with you that the face on this stamps is really beautiful — it just pulls the viewer in.
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So very pretty. Great job with distress inks, too.
Hugs,
JuliaB.
This is absolutely beautiful, what amazing work you do; you should be so proud, you have truly inspired me.
Cheryl
Oh I love it,the stamp the card everything.
Beautiful card made with a gorgeous stamp!!!
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This is beyond gorgeous! I absolutely love the stamp (I love wolves, too!). You did a fantastic job coloring it!
I just love what you’ve done with this stamp the colors are so rich the card is divine, and with a chance of winning what more this fab stamp how wonderful, thanks
Sheron
This is a grogeous card!! I love the image, and how you have colored it.
This is lovely! I love the watercolor with Distress inks!
Great image+Awesome sentiment= fab card.. Totally love the way you’ve played with distress inks…
Very beautiful card! The paper on backgriund is fantastic! The image is great too)
WOW, double WOW, that is super, stunning and just OTT!!!! Love ut, TFS!!!
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