I was really blinded by all the great inspiration choices today! In the end, I chose Matches because of the wonderful, marbled papers. I also wanted to include at least one card for the Fan Club May theme of strong women and girly stuff.
I was also inspired by recently watching Steel Magnolias. What a great movie about strong women. I just love Olympia Dukakis and I remembered I had a stamp w/ one of her lines in this movie. I also have quite a few hand marbled papers I made a number of years ago. They're each different and due to their nature, there's no way to duplicate them. Unless of course you make a color copy. That's what I do so I can keep the originals.
So my copy of hand marbled paper was cut w/ a couple of different sized Nesties. The image (TSG) was stamped once on white c/s and once on the marbled paper, then paper pieced. I added a little color to the woman w/ Prisma pencils. Each layer of marbled paper is attached to a layer of navy c/s.
The sentiment (Ann-ticiapations) was stamped and cut w/ a Quickutz rectangle die using the out of the box tech (tutorial HERE). It's also colored w/ Prismas. The little accessories (SG and Stampendous) were added around the sentiment. The narrow navy band above it was embossed w/ a Sizzix folder.
The upper right corner was scored w/ a Scor-It and I added liquid pearls on the rays and also on the image.
Thanks so much for looking
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Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009 GMT Views: 553
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Sat, Jun 13, 2009 @ 10:23 PM
Wow Julie, I just caught this BEAUTY!!!! OMG, it is stunning!!! Love those pearl rays, the image, the colors. Wow, the marble effect. Love that funny sentiment also!! You did an AMAZING job here!!! TFS!!
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Sat, Jun 13, 2009 @ 11:05 PM
OK, how perfect is this?!!! Awesome inspiration card and awesome card just 'cause it's yours. Everything you do is pure magic. tsmfs
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Sun, Jun 14, 2009 @ 2:29 AM
Wow, this is just fabulous from the design and layout to every fine detail you added. Love that sentiment.
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Sun, Jun 14, 2009 @ 6:21 AM
Whoa, girl, what a jaw dropper this one is. Love your sultry image and that sentiment is the best yet! Beautiful in blues; beautiful in composition, too. So striking.
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