Good Monday everyone! Today's TLC was to try a new type of bookmark... one which goes over the corner of the page instead of a long thin more typical one. It also qualifies for this month's dirty challenge... coloring (sponging with Ink).
My DH has a birthday this week and I wanted to use this Stampscapes image for his card, and he is an avid reader, so the bookmark was perfect for him too. The only difficult part was figuring out what to do with the bookmark to make it look great on the card but also be nice on it's own.
I stamped the image on GPW and used tons of inks to sponge the sky and water. I also used a few Copics to make some cloud billows.... trying to replicate the sky we saw over the lake last night.
For the bookmark I stamped the pine border from Great Impressions on GPW that I had sponged to somewhat match the sky. Ran Close to Cocoa thru the bug with distressed stripes folder, punched 2 circles which I also sponged with sky colors, and stamped Hero Arts Sentiment. The larger circle is punched and a brad is inserted then the sentiment is on dimensionals. This way, you can spin the sentiment to be "upright" no matter which way you are using it, but the brad does not show in the middle of the sentiment. I used my McGill Pine Bough punch to punch boughs from unknown green scrap. Added some hemp and done.
Hope you like it! I think he will... or I hope so!
Thanks for looking!
Date: Monday, September 22, 2008 GMT Views: 1779
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Mon, Sep 22, 2008 @ 10:12 AM
Holy COW. Your mojo is on today girlfriend. This is awesome. I cannot believe how great that sponged chalk looks. So pretty. He is going to be thrilled. I would not even want to use this it is just two awesome. I have one really great picture of Lake Norman at sunset. Not as pretty as this. Hope he has a great bd. TFS
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Mon, Sep 22, 2008 @ 10:36 AM
WOW is all I can say! This is the most awesome card...hb to your dh, I'm sure he will be very impressed! BTW, can you tell me how you figured out the dimensions for the bookmark....the tutorial isn't very clear at least to me. I'm looking for another tutorial on a bookmark so I can give it a try but I am totally lost on the one in the forum.