Pink and Busy, but I like it anyway! The Funky Heart Design is from Impression Obsession...The stamp is actually a large heart with the funky little design inside, but I trimmed them smaller using my Heart nesties. The hearts were stamped on White and then I airbrushed with a pink Copic. And again-- my hoarding of pearls is subsiding as I plunked a few dozen on this card! The largest heart I used my Japanese Screw Punch to make holes and threaded variegated embroidery floss for the "rope" look, I actually went through each hole twice, using a big fat embroidery needle--so not so tedious. The pearls come on long adhesive strips so they are easy to place a row and match it to the edge of the heart. The little tag edge was made using my all time favorite edge punch - the Martha Stewart Lace Doiley, love that thing. I added some red Spica to the red portion of the hearts for a little sparkle. The hearts are popped so they are all at different heights. After the generous application of pearls a few little ribbons here and there. Done. Finished card size is 5 3/4" square.
Registered: July 18, 2006 Location: Beautiful, British Columbia, Canada Posts: 24229
Sat, Jan 10, 2009 @ 10:30 AM
Very nicely done.
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Not too busy, and not too pink. I think it's absolutely beautiful. Love the idea of punching the end of the tag with the doily lace punch (I just bought it yesterday, and have found so many ideas here for using it. Thanks for giving me another one!) Who wouldn't love receiving this card?
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Registered: May 25, 2009 Location: South Carolina Posts: 1552
Fri, May 29, 2009 @ 7:35 AM
This is incredibly beautiful. The way you have managed to combine the pinks and reds to work is sweet. I think you are selling yourself short to give this a one on the difficultly level. I do not think harmonizing colors to this level is at all easy. To me stamping an image (ink being the only color) and centering on a card is a one. I feel this rates a 4.