Congrats to Shannan, today's Featured Stamper! I chose Wishing You Comfort to case. I kept the layout but turned it. I changed the images, the colors and moved my sentiment from the center to a separate panel.
All images are Innovative Stamp Creations, just released last Friday. The fern was stamped w/ gold ink onto vanilla c/s, embossed w/ gold ep and cut w/ a Spellbinders oval die. I sponged the edges w/ mustard colored ink from the Kpad and edged it w/ a Krylon pen. It's a attached to a rust layer. I did the same to the sentiment, but die cut it w/ a nestie tag die.
The frame was created w/ a piece of handmade paper. I have bunch of this I bought a long time ago. It's fairly thick but it's not the best to stamp on since it's a little rough and super absorbent. I tried to do a water color wash w/ red, orange, yellow and green dye reinkers, but because of the paper, it didn't work. The colors kind of sat there in splotches. So I washed over the whole thing w/ a mustard color. Still didn't like it. Then I tried a wash w/ lt gold acrylic paint, thinned w/ water. Now I liked it, and this is the final result. After it dried, I used a larger nestie oval to cut out the middle and attached the frame on top of my other layers.
I scribbled a mixture of gold and copper Krylon pens onto some scrap cardboard (ok, all cardboard is scrap, but this is scrap of scrap) and punched 4 circles out and attached to the corners.
Thanks so much for looking! My blog:The Write Stuff. Sorry! I had to delete a bunch of really old posts from my blog & this is one of them
Date: Sunday, September 13, 2009 GMT Views: 1249
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Registered: April 20, 2005 Location: The only Eaton Rapids on the Earth, Michigan Posts: 57568
Sun, Sep 13, 2009 @ 6:15 PM
So beautiful and elegant, Julie! Wow! I love the gold embossing and how you worked the handmade paper. Topping it off with the gold acrylic paint was pure genius!
Registered: January 29, 2006 Location: Mount Forest,Ontario Canada Posts: 11622
Sun, Sep 13, 2009 @ 8:23 PM
My mind is singing "make new friends, but keep the o-old, one is silver and the other gold". This golden beauty with the amazing worked over bg fits that bill PERFECTLY.
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My God shall supply all your need…Philippians 4:19