I haven't used vellum in a long time, so I decided to use this PSX Lupine stamp. This card didn't come out at all the way I had planned. I stamped the Lupine onto vellum with VersaMark and embossed it with white EP, then colored the Lupine on the back side of the vellum with Copics. Actually the Lupine didn't have large enough petals to shade well and have it show up on the front. The vellum was supposed to be mounted onto light pink paper, but the Copics didn't show up well on that at all. The only thing that worked was white CS.
Next, I mounted the vellum onto the white CS using tiny deep pink brads, and used a Krylon pen to go around the edges. That was matted onto Core'dinations gemstones, dimensionally mounted onto Anna Griffin DP, then more Gemstones, and then a white card. All the layers were outlined with the Krylon pen. This card isn't as bright as it looks in the photo, and is really a little pinker rather than being as peachy as this.
I added some gold pearls as accents, then I tried a ton of bows, but none looked good any where on it, so I added some gold outline stickers to the corners. After that, this little bow didn't look quite so silly as it did without the corners.
After I had used the gold pen around the vellum, I had noticed that the vellum lifted up a bit at the bottom. I was hoping it would settle back down, but it didn't. Since I couldn't take the brads off after it was mounted onto the paper below, I decided to try a little bit of Glossy accents to take the little pucker out. They show a little bit, but not too bad. I also didn't notice that when I pushed it down into the glossy accents, I pushed the bottom of the dimensional layer down as well. I just went over and slid my fingernail under it, and it's back up and the whole bottom is level now, but not in the photo. Maybe I will rephotograph it tomorrow if it gets light enough. (We are going to get snow, so I hope it isn't really dark tomorrow).
Anyway, I guess the card is okay, but it isn't what I expected.
Registered: March 31, 2008 Location: Eastlake, OH Posts: 3128
Sat, Feb 02, 2013 @ 4:18 PM
You may not be satisfied but it sure is a beauty! You experimented with some fun ideas (which I may play with) and the end result is a very elegant card! I'd be proud to receive this!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful card. I appreciate the amount of work you put into this. I have not used vellum in a while either, at least not to stamp and color on. SU vellum CS does go well in the embossing folders. Again TFS
Registered: May 25, 2006 Location: So. Oregon Posts: 54383
Mon, Apr 22, 2013 @ 12:09 PM
ooooh
<----- wipes the drool off the keyboard. this is fabulous...
I have never tried to heat emboss any of these PSX flowers and this looks stunning to me. tfs!
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