This is a card that I made for my grandfather for Father's Day. I just recently got the Aqua Mist collection from Papertrey Ink, and I really wanted to use it! I thought it would pair up nicely with close to cocoa and make a nice masculine card. This card is also for SC177, I thought this layout would work great with the Lovely As A Tree set. The main background panel is aqua mist and I stamped the Weathered bg on it in close to cocoa ink. This panel was matted with close to cocoa cs that had the edges distressed. The main image panel is very vanilla. I stamped the image from Lovely As A Tree in versamark and embossed it with dark brown ep. I sponged aqua mist ink on the tree branches and along areas of the ground. I also sponged close to cocoa ink around the edges of the vanilla panel. I matted the vanilla panel with close to cocoa that was distressed. The whole main image panel is up on dimensionals. For the small panels, I stamped the Happy Father's Day from All Year Cheer II. I stamped the Happy on the top panel in close to cocoa ink. On the bottom panel I stamped the rest of the sentiment, the "Father's" in aqua mist and the "Day" in close to cocoa. I matted these small panels with aqua mist and close to cocoa cs. Again, the close to cocoa mats were distressed. I added some antique brass brads to the "Happy" panel and in the corners of the aqua mist panel.
I wasn't sure how this one would turn out (I just improvised as I was working on it), but I am very pleased with the final result. Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Date: Saturday, June 7, 2008 GMT Views: 1375
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Registered: November 17, 2006 Location: Nanaimo, British Columbia Posts: 52798
Mon, Jun 09, 2008 @ 4:11 PM
Awesome Fathers Day card, love your colours, the weathered bg, like the embossed lovely as a tree image and the the sponging. Like the distressed edges and the two colours used on your sentiment panels.... tfs