A Monochromatic Bellarific Friday

Happy Friday everyone! It's time for another Bellarific Friday challenge, and this week our challenge was monochromatic designs! If you stop over at Blogabella, you can check out all the colorful goodness of the Babes cards, and the Sisterhood, too! Don't forget to leave a comment too, because one lucky person wins a little shopping spree in Bellaland every week, just for leaving a comment!

Now, I have to admit my card took a little non-monochromatic turn, I guess you could say. My first thought for a card for today was that I so badly wanted to ink up these precious Turtle Tots, thinking I would go with a green-theme on my card. However, I think in my head I thought their little beach outfits were skimpier than they actually are, so there's a lot of *other* colors showing on my card, as well as the green! You know those cute "Summer Girls" are already out trying to get a good tan on their little green bodies, so I just couldn't put green clothes on them too, know what I mean? They're cruising the beach with their sweets, looking for some cute boys to hang with! They gotta' look their best!

My turtles are stamped on Bella's Bestest cardstock and colored with Copic markers. I did the grassy border, and the background shading with Prismacolor pencils and OMS... (it's a work in progress. I definitely need some lessons from Paulabella and Lindabella, I think!)

I didn't really leave a lot of room on the card front for my sentiment, so I stamped it on a green oval and tucked it on the inside! This sentiment comes with the "Scoops of Love" stamp, but I thought it went well with my turtle girls, too!

So again, be sure to stop over at Blogabella to see all the other monochromatic cards today! And why not play along with us next week? The challenge will be this sketch from the fabulous Lindabella!