Congrats to Gloria! I picked a couple that I want to case and this is the first one. I chose her Heartfelt Sympathy for this one. I kept the brayered background, silhouette images and big main panel, but I changed the colors, the images and added another layer.
All images, embossing powder, adhesives and glitters are from Sparkle N Sprinkle. After doing a brayered bg on a 1/4 sheet of white glossy c/s, I used the static pad and stamped this great Art Deco image in the center of the panel w/ black pigment ink and embossed it w/ black ep. Sometimes I'm asked why I don't use clear ep w/ the black ink or black ep w/ a clear ink. Almost exclusively, I use an ink very close to the color of the ep I want to use because it gives me a much deeper color. It also hides any flaws like when a tiny portion doesn't get the ep. I stamped the lady portion of the image again on a scrap of matte white c/s using black permanent ink. On this image, I used markers to color her, cut her out and applied glue and black glitter to her dress. Then I attached her to the base image w/ a little card board under her to give her just a little lift.
I used a craft knife to cut the base image along the straight sides because I used the rest of the bg for my big layer. Some highlights were added w/ a white gel pen and lavender and black layers were added underneath before attaching it over the main bg. Another black layer was added then everything was attached to a 4.25 x 5.5 (A2) white card. I used a Cuttlebug ornamental border die to cut the black scroll element, brushed glue over it and coated it w/ black glitter before attaching it below the image.
I made 3 faux brads and coated them w/ glitter as well. If you'd like to see just how I make these nice rounded brads, I just finished a new Faux Brad Tutorial. I'd love for you to check it out!
Thanks so much for looking! Closeups and links are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010 GMT Views: 891
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Registered: June 4, 2009 Location: Deatsville, Alabama Posts: 83888
Sun, Apr 25, 2010 @ 1:57 PM
Wow -you did some awesome detail work on this! Wonderful brayering and embossing. Super job.
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Registered: October 18, 2008 Location: Arizona-It's a DRY heat! Posts: 4510
Sun, Apr 25, 2010 @ 1:58 PM
Very dramatic card! Love the colors and the details show all the work you put into this beauty!
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Sun, Apr 25, 2010 @ 3:52 PM
You named this card perfectly!!!! These colors along with your image makes this an amazing card!!!! WOW!
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Registered: March 11, 2008 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 39766
Sun, Apr 25, 2010 @ 5:19 PM
Simply stunning Julie. All your eb'ing and brayering and designing.....WELL DONE! TFS :0)
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