Today's Free for All challenge is to go "almost monochromatic" - one neutral and one color along with white or vanilla. I decided to try the faux flower press technique on this one and it was fun - remember the feeling you got when you first heat embossed and saw the powder bubble up into beautiful glossiness - well, it was fun to see how the pattern came out in lovely texture which isn't really captured too well in my photo! I punched flowers in two different sizes from cherry cobbler and glued them randomly on white cardstock, then embossed it with the square lattice folder. If anyone is interested here's the tutorial by Anne: Faux Pressed Flowers Tutorials at Splitcoaststampers
I computer generated this sentiment which I got off a quotes website and added a border, popping it up on frames. I set it slightly off the card so that more of the texture and pattern could be seen - and because I'm kind of into that at the moment! I added pearls to finish.
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011 GMT Views: 1227
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Fri, Feb 04, 2011 @ 7:48 AM
I love what you did with Anne's tutorial and my favorite RED!
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Fri, Feb 04, 2011 @ 7:55 AM
Beautiful card - I love this technique! Gives such a fun look to a card. Great sentiment - I must get better at printing some of my own sentiments. This turned out just wonderfully.
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