Hi! This card was made for today's Technique Lover's Challenge: Suspension Cards.
I should have known! This morning, when I went to check the Bath Mat for Speedy's "Helpful HINT," I found this Peony stamp and a roll of TWINE! I kept thinking, okay....Speedy's missed on this challenge. Poor dear, he's losing his physic powers...But, NO!!! I checked the challenge, and I NEEDED the twine! I swear, I have goose bumps right now!
I stamped the Peony 6 times in Versa Mark and embossed all the images in Detail Gold. I colored the images with Twinkling H2O's! Wow! What a DREAM to work with! No smearing like watercolors! (No blotching like markers!) I LOVE these!!!
To color, I added a BIT of water to the H2O pots. I used 3 colors, a red, an orange and a gold. I painted the ENTIRE thing in gold first. Next, I added a layer of orange to the edges. To finish I added red to highlight. (I used 2 greens for the leaves)
Next, I cut out all the flowers, one layer per flower. I used only 5 of the flowers, and the leaves of the sixth. I rimmed the backside of all the flowers with the red. I curled the petals with a bone folder.
The suspension circle was done by punching different sized holes in the card stock. The sentiment is hanging by twine.
And, Laurence the Ladybug sneaked in at the last moment! (I colored him with the red Twinkling H2O's!)
All images, Basic Grey paper, ribbon, Noir Black Palette Ink, (used for sentiment and ladybug), Spellbinder's Nestibilities, and Twinkling H2O's can be found here: www.Flourishes.org
Date: Monday, July 7, 2008 GMT Views: 1846
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Registered: April 6, 2005 Location: Stuarts Draft, Virginia Posts: 14401
Mon, Jul 07, 2008 @ 7:04 AM
Awesome card, Faith!! You make me want to bury mine in a hole! :-)
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Wanda Cullen ~ Dirty Dozen Alumni, On design team for Papertrey Ink, Designer for Color Throwdown and Fusion Card Challenges Cullen-ary Creations[/URL]...my blogHERE'S MY GALLERY[/URL]
Registered: July 18, 2007 Location: WA Posts: 9838
Mon, Jul 07, 2008 @ 7:09 AM
Wow, this is marvelous, Faith! How do you accomplish all this so early in the morning? I'm in absolute awe, my friend! Amazing flower...amazing card! I love it! TFS!!