I looked at Lee's inspiration photo for today, and when I stopped giggling and tried to get inspired, the cupcake on the right reminded me - goodness knows why - of berries. So I pulled out an old Flourishes stamp, and threw in a lace frill for good measure.
Thank goodness this goes into the HYCCT gallery, because the background is a failed attempts at the Crayon Rubbed Embossing technique from the Inkling a couple of weeks back, and I'd never had had the nerve to upload it to that gallery. (On the trail for a firmer white crayon now to have another go- a tall order!).
A2 base covered with some deep pink/cranberry paper. I stitched my failed crayon background on with green thread. Flourishes image stamped on watercolour paper with Versafine Black and coloured with H2Os. I was at the very end of the colouring when a stray hair on my brush smudged along a stem and I had to turn it over and start again from scratch. Sentiment from Pocket Silhouettes. I rounded two corners, sponged the edges with Moss Green and added some ruffled lace along the back edge. It's layered onto a piece of thin chipboard covered with more of the base paper, and fixed up on foam dots. I added some green bling just to finish it off.
Date: Sunday, October 2, 2011 GMT Views: 783
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Fri, Oct 21, 2011 @ 10:44 PM
I am SO lovin' that lace border!!
And thank you for inspiring me to maybe use an untouched stamp set! (One with similar imaging ... truly has baffled me!) haha