Summer Flower Tilda is Pretty in Pink!

Woo Hoo it's time for a new challenge at the Magnolia-licious Challenge! We have a photo to inspire you, it's a beautiful makeup box full of many hues. My first thoughts were the jewel tones but the more I looked at the photo the more I kept coming back to Girlie and so I went with that theme for my card.
Now I know I have been going on and on about the Copic Intermediate class I took last weekend but it was so wonderful, fabulous teachers, a great group of ladies and I got to spend the day with a wonderful blogging friend Barb Hardeman from Stampelicious!. Oh my did we have a blast, it was the first time we had met (didn't even know she was going to be there) but it was like meeting an old friend! And Debbie from Plano was added to the mix as a new friend and we just had the best time.
Now the class was so inspiring and so on Sunday morning I couldn't wait to start coloring and trying out my new found skills and my goodness how I loved the results, it may sound silly but I had tears in my eyes and kept saying to myself "you see, you can do it, you can color like the others out there", see I'm just a big sap :)
But anyway I hope you can see the differences and to all the ladies out there that have taken the Intermediate class you'll know what I mean when I say I used the "secret scary color" in my skin coloring ;) This gorgeous little Tilda is called "Summer Flower" but it seems like Diana is out of stock of them at the moment but she has lots of the other cuties from the Summer Memories Collection 2012

Challenges:
Bunny Zoes - Anything Goes
Just Keep on Creating - Anything Goes
One Stitch at A Time - Anything Goes
Whimsy Inspires - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
My Heart Pieces - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Robyn's Fetish - Anything Goes (3 entries only)
Tildas Town - Anything Goes
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Square
Just Magnolia - Sketch
Crafts 4 Eternity - Wonderful Wings
Ladybugs Crafts - Wings
Sweet Stampin Pixies - Favorite Fairy
Sweet Stampin - Fairies and Angels
Do You Stack Up - Create a Landscape
Crafty Catz - Lets Here It For The Girls (1 entry only)
Patties Creations - Recipe Pick at least 3 (I picked Sentiment, Pearls, Ribbon and Flowers)
The Secret Crafter - In the Garden
Magnolia Down Under - Handmade Embellishment (the flowers)
Crafty Pad - Bingo! (I chose Ribbon, Flowers and Bling)
Karen's Doodles - Stitching (I chose faux)
Creative Card Crew - Dimension (3 entries only)

Card Recipe:
Image - Summer Flower Tilda
Medium - Copic Markers
Paper and Floral Border - Vintage Girl by Martha Stewart
Rolled Flower Die - Cuties 3 by Cheery Lynn Designs
Sentiment - Making Memories
Flower Confetti - Brides
Pearls - Recollections and The Paper Studio
Lace and Ribbon - Wrights

The darker skin colors and shading were very scary to consider but Colleen Schaan kept telling us to "Embrace the darker colors" and you know what? once you do you realize what you were missing in the depth of your shading.
This is the first piece I have colored since my "re-birth" and while it's not perfect it is years ahead of where I was. Now if only I could grasp all the design concepts then I'd be golden!
Now enough wittering from me, run over to the Magnolia-licious Challenge see all the wonderful creations there and then go color and come back and show us what you made!
Katie