I hope I'm not stretching things too far, but my image does have branches (sticks) and the main image has STICKles.
This is also for our twice monthly DDIC challenge.
For the background, I wanted to incorporate the colors of three bottles, so I swiped pale yellow ink down the center of piece of white card stock; pink & red ink down the left side and blue ink down the right. It was all DTP (direct to paper) so it was easy and fast.
I stamped the large viney image on top with black ink, then used a detail acrylic paint brush and a little bleach to pull some of the color out of the leaves and flowers. I used the largest square Nestie and resized it to make a very large rectangle and cut out the center of my background. I used the next smaller square and cut it again to leave some space between the inside and the outside frame and attached them to the front of a 4.25 x 5.5 ivory card.
I stamped the smaller vines and birds on a piece of ivory, added a little color with markers and used an oval nestie. A scallop oval was used on the blue and a labels 6 was used on the back ivory layer. The ivory layers had pink ink sponged on the edges and the black and white dots were added with pens. I used the pink ink to stamp the bird and overstamped the sentiment with black. I traced an elongated oval around it and hand cut it. A little stickles was added to the central image.
Thanks so much for looking! My blog:The Write Stuff. Sorry! I had to delete a bunch of really old posts from my blog & this is one of them.
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010 GMT Views: 1196
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Thu, Aug 05, 2010 @ 8:47 AM
Oh wow!!! Fantastic card, one of my favourite Flourishes sets. I bought it for the small focal image but use that large vine way more. I just love what you have done with it.