The Midwest has been hit heavily this winter with some severe weather, and my friend Sydney has been working on fixing up a house and moving in the midst of it. And since she begins every note to me with *Peace and a Hug*, it made me think of using this stamp set for a card for her.
Today's Technique Challenge is *Debossing Vellum*. I stamped the *Peace* stamp using a combination of different blues and purple craft spots, and embossed with Iridescent Ice EP. I then turned it over and debossed the image, including the text (*Silent, soft and slow descends the snow.* Longfellow)
The vellum is mounted to a small piece of glossy CS sponged with the same colors of reinkers. The background panel is brilliant blue, stamped with the bg stamp, Sanded, embossed in navy blue and II EP, sprayed lightly with glue and dusted with DD glitter. I've used narrow organdy ribbon, silver cord, and 2 large snowflake charms adhered with brads, dotted with Swarovski crystals. The partially hidden white snowflake is punched from WW CS.
I had fun with this- lots of glitz and sparkle which shows up better IRL. Thanks for looking!
Maddy
Date: Monday, March 3, 2008 GMT Views: 1604
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105268
Mon, Mar 03, 2008 @ 3:55 PM
This is lovely, Maddy. Perfect for your friend. I think debossing shows up better in person, or IRL. Mine do, anyway. TFS.
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Registered: March 20, 2005 Location: Butler, PA Posts: 77633
Mon, Mar 03, 2008 @ 5:14 PM
Maddy, I can't tell you how great it is to see your work in the galleries again. We missed you and beautiful creations such as this one that has so much of you put into it.
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Registered: November 7, 2006 Location: Willamette Valley Oregon Posts: 34503
Mon, Mar 03, 2008 @ 6:17 PM
this is outstanding, I love the snowflake with the longfellow quote, there is so much depth there! And the sanded looks amazing embossed and lightly glittered...I hope your friend has a mantel in her new house, she's gonna want to keep this one out!
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