Rockin' Rollanda

I haven't played with the sketches in the Stamping Bella forum on Splitcoast for a long time, so decided to use this week's sketch, along with this week's colour challenge on Splitcoast (chocolate chip, riding hood red, pink pirouette). 

I simply adore all the Kettos from Stamping Bella, and I've been dying to use Rollanda for a while now, so this sketch is perfect for her! I started by stamping Rollanda with Memento Tuxedo Black and colouring her with copics. I paper pieced her dress with some patterned paper from SU's  Candy Lane DP. I pencilled in the floor then coloured it with shades of light brown. Rollanda is cut out with rectangle Nestabilities and layered onto a scallop rectangle of riding hood red, then chocolate chip. I finished the image with some Stardust Stickles on her wings and her roller blades.

The card base is riding hood red, followed by chocolate chip, then the fabulous striped paper from Candy Lane. I used my new EK Success slim border punch along the piece of pink pirouette and added the sentiment from Stamping Bella. 

The card is already so linear with all the stripes and rectangles and the sketch called for another linear element along the right side. Well, I couldn't make anything linear work along the right side...I felt like it needed something softer. So I punched out some flowers, lined them up, and added some 5mm marble chocolate Bella dots to the centers. I used my Micro Dots again to adhere the dots to the flowers. I find I'm reaching for them all the time now because even mini glue dots are a smidge too large for most embellishments. 

Don't forget about Bellarific Friday. You have until 5pm EST Thursday to submit your card to Emily via email for a chance to win some Bella Bucks. The only requirement is that you must use Stamping Bella stamps. Click here for this week's inspiration piece and scroll to the bottom of the post. Have fun!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen