This is for the February SFYTT, nothing like waiting until the last minute again! haha. This time I decided to bite the bullet and break into something that I have been hoarding for a long time. The brads from BasicGrey's Hello Luscious line called my name. I have a horrible "if I use them, then I won't have them anymore!" mentality that I need to break. So... this card.
All patterned paper is from the Hello Luscious 6x6 pad. I cut the butterflies from Stampin Up's butterflies sizzlits die that cuts and embosses, though with such busy paper the embossing sort of gets lost. Oh well. After deciding to go with the Hello Luscious line I was flipping through my stamps and this girl called my name. Mish Wooderson called her "Freaky Girl" on her blog a while back and the name stuck with me. She is from BasicGrey's Gamma series which I got a couple of years ago. So Freaky Girl was stamped on PaperTrey white cardstock with Palette Noir ink and colored with Prismacolor pencils. I put some black Gelly Roll glaze pen on her eyes to make them stand out even more. I used chalks to give her a pink aura (cause even though she looks kinda freaky, maybe she glows sweetness from within? Cause look, she's giving you a heart!) and to shade the edge of the panel. All inking was done with SU's Chocolate Chip (it's the ink cube I use the very most of all of them) and some Distress ink in Tea Dye to make the cut edges of the paper look as grungy as the already-distressed-looking printed edges. I used a bit of pink and orange ink from a Martha Stewart stacker (picked up from WalMart back when they used to carry cool stuff like that) to ink the teal layer, too.
My favorite part of this card is the sentiment. I hope you can read it okay on this photo, because I am still learning to make my pics look good. (Meaning I am still bad at it. :-P) I cut a strip of the teal paper to 3/8" wide and ran it through my Dymo LabelWriter. That one that is pink with more pink, with interchangable font wheels. I'm pretty sure I have seen it for sale at Michael's. I used the lowercase font and then sanded the tops of the letters off. I love to do that technique with CTMH cardstock too, because of the white core! I used really thin foam tape to pop my little alphas up and put them on all wonky to match the off-beat feel of Freaky Girl.
Oh yeah, one last thing: the card is 5 1/2" square, because that's what size worked with the doily I used. Hehe. (Um, yeah, I have a thing for doilies. You'll probably be seeing a lot of them from me.)
Thanks for looking!
Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 GMT Views: 457
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