Well, my card for today actually combines two things: yesterday's challenge of using crinkled (crumpled) cardstock and today's "limited supply" challenge.
I'll admit my card does have other colors than blue green and sand; it also has rose red (don't you just melt when you get roses?), pumpkin pie (you eat that whey it's cool, don't you?) and a gold sun coming out during the rain. Why the sun, you ask? Well, this IS the RAIN FOREST in Costa Rica and when it rains, often the sun is out as well.
1. The image was stamped on a rectangle of cardstock and colored in with SU markers (mostly blues and greens with sahara sand) and blended.
2. Then the flowers were punched out, the dsp adherred to cardstock and after crumpling, the flowers were attached to the card (the main one using a make a brad and a circle of dsp).
3. Ribbon was placed over green dsp and attached to the card base.
4. Then rain drops were added in green (why green? well, the store didn't have any in blue!)
5. The paper was pierced across the top in a straight line, to the left middle in the shape of a GIANT butterfly (don't they live in the rain forest?) and to the right just below in the shape of a swirl. 6. Finally, a glittery tree lizard and the glittery sun were added (I would have removed the sun, but it got firmly stuck all on it's own!)
For a limited challenge, this is one of my busiest, and silly-ly embellished cards! But I had lots of fun making it and thinking about the tropics while doing so!! Thanks for looking!
Date: Friday, June 12, 2009 GMT Views: 224
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Paper: SU whisper white cardstock, SU bali breeze dsp
Ink: Staz-on jet black, SU markers in old olive, certainly celery, sahara sand, taken with teal, tempting turquoise, rose red, regal rose, ballet blue and pumkin pie (as accent on the tree-- I got carried away!)
Accessories: paper piercing plates, mat and tool, punches (SU scallop circle, SU small circle, Martha Stewart cosmos) build a brad, rose red ribbon, green self adhesive drops, glittery sun and lizard
Techniques: paper piercing & crinkled cardstock as accents, simple stamping