Okay, this is the last card that I have to upload tonight! Life has been really busy lately, and I have been in a bit of a funk. As you can probably tell, I am over the funk and back in the saddle! I have missed stamping and it feels so good to be inking up some rubber again!
For this card I had to use my very favorite set ever- Bloomin' Beautiful! I love this set so much and I am so glad that it made it into the new SU! catalog. I stamped the poppy image on watercolor paper with black stazon, and colored it using the watercoloring with markers technique: Watercoloring With Markers Tutorials at Splitcoaststampers. I sponged mellow moss ink around the edges of the panel and matted with mellow moss cs. Oh, and I used the ticket corner punch. I used the cameo coral and ruby red markers to get the color of the poppy. I used the scallop edge punch (can you tell what my new favorite toy is?!?!) along the right side of the card front. I alternated layers of mellow moss and very vanilla cs for the front panel. On the top vanilla panel, I stamped the En Francais bg in mellow moss ink. I used the ticket corner punch on all of the corners and added the brads in the corners. I ran a piece of ribbon from the retired Beachfront ribbon originals (it matches much better IRL) along the bottom of the card. I stamped the sentiment (from All Holidays) on very vanilla cs with mellow moss ink and punched it out with the small oval punch. I then framed it with the oval frame from the styled silver hodgepodge hardware. I attached the frame over the ribbon.
Thank you for taking the time to look at my work, and for your patience with my rambling! I hope you have all had a great weekend!
Date: Saturday, August 16, 2008 GMT Views: 1114
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Registered: January 21, 2007 Location: New York Posts: 54876
Sun, Aug 17, 2008 @ 4:58 AM
OMGOSH! BEAUTIFUL! I HAVE MISSED YOU! HOW IS YOUR PUPPY? YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS BUT I AM WORKING ON A CARD RIGHT NOW JUST LIKE THIS. I WAS GOING TO UPLOAD ON TUES. I ALSO USED FS FOR THE BG! GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE....RIGHT!
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Registered: November 17, 2006 Location: Nanaimo, British Columbia Posts: 52798
Fri, Aug 29, 2008 @ 5:49 PM
Beautiful card Dorothy.... I love this set as well, I like your colour combo, wonderful colouring. like the fs bg, scalloped edge, ribbon and hardware treatment. Glad to see you back in the gallery. tfs