Congrats to Claudia! Wonderful gallery and I loved strolling thru it. I chose Forever Together to case. I kept the general layout, sentiment as focal point, and monochromatic color. I changed the images, added some inking to age mine and rotated the layout. I was also inspired by Amelia Tunic from yesterday's IC challenge.
I'm just loving this crochet bg image. For my card, I wanted to stay monochromatic but I also wanted it to show up. So I white embossed it on white vellum and inked the edges w/ the antique linen ink. When I attached to the front of my 4.25 x 5.5 ivory card, it was even more visible. I noticed the vellum warped a little at the top, but vellum can tend to stretch when embossed and to me, it looks more like real lace.
The sentiment was stamped on white, cut w/ an ODBD custom die label one, and aged the edges. The butterfly was also white embossed on vellum and die cut w/ a backing vanilla piece of paper (another ODBD die).
On some leftover embossed crochet bg, I used a double border punch and attached this over my white frame then attached the sentiment on top. I added the Jolee's flower and some ivory and white punched branches.
Thanks so much for looking! I'll have closeups on my blog in just a bit. The Write Stuff
Date: Sunday, June 26, 2011 GMT Views: 2434
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Accessories: detail white embossing powder, Spellbinder petite oval, ODBD label one & butterfly dies, flower (Jolee's), pearls, EK Success border punch, Martha Stewart & Punch a Bunch fern leaf punches
This is gorgeous! I love the flowers on the bottom right and your gorgeous butterfly. I have been thinking about that background stamp but you just sold me on it. I love all the details and the layers. Great card.
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Sun, Jun 26, 2011 @ 1:02 PM
WoW what a gorgeous card! I love your flower, butterfly and the lace bg! Soooo beautiful!
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