Hi! This card was made for today's Clean And Simple Challenge: Cut it Out AND for today's Technique Lovers Challenge: Scratch n' Sniff.
I wanted to make a REALLY fast card today. So, I decided to use my Spellbinders' butterfly and my Mark's Finest Papers Sunflower. I stamped the sunflower onto Snow Storm Smooth in Noir. Next, I cut it out and sponged on Sun Flower and Raw Sienna Palette inks for the petals. I sponged in just a BIT of Sun Flower in the center and added in Cognac.
The butterfly was cut and embossed with the die. Next, I rubbed the Noir pad over the embossed areas. I sponged in with Nude, Orangerie and Moulin Rouge Palette Inks. (The frame for the images is the card base. It was embossed with a Nestie.) The leaves are Spellbinders dies. I cut them, and then sponged in Chartreuse and Landscape.
I mixed a VERY SMALL amount of lemonade mix into a VERY small amount of CLEAR embossing powder. Next, I used a VersaMark PEN to INK in the center of the sunflower and the entire butterfly. I embossed them with the lemonade/embossing powder. You know what? It works!!!
Finished card size: 5" square.
Total Time to complete: 39 minutes. (I had to FIND that package of lemonade mix!)
Registered: March 24, 2006 Location: Deep in the Heart of TEXAS Posts: 16128
Mon, Jan 11, 2010 @ 6:26 AM
Lovely card!! Please check out the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge by clicking on the link below my signature. We would be honored to have one of your lovely cards in our weekly challenge.
------------------------------ Phyllis Young at heart, slightly older in other parts. We really never grow up, we just learn how to act in public!! What if you woke up today with only what you had thanked God for yesterday??
Registered: June 9, 2006 Location: Wauconda, IL Posts: 51146
Mon, Jan 11, 2010 @ 6:47 AM
Pretty cool!!! Your sunflower is so pretty - and you made it smell like lemonade?! That's great!! I wonder how long the smell is good for. Great job on both challenges this morning.
