I named this card "The Cursed Heart" because if anything went wrong, IT WENT WRONG! This is the image that I had a fight with for the Limited Supplies Challenge which I never got done until now. I had to set it aside for a couple of days. When I saw the Featured Stamper Jaydekay's gallery tonight, I knew I had to case this card shown here. ssnotime37 simple butterfly by jaydekay at Splitcoaststampers. Thank you so much for making her as the FS. Here is my story.
I started out by stamping the heart with versamark ink onto vellum. I used black emboss powder and heat set. Colored with markers on the embossed side. Cut out! This is where I had a fight, because every which way I put it, it didn't look right with anything for the LSC. So, here it is in the FS. I mounted the image onto a scrap of dp (it really does have fainted hearts in it, hard to see) and sponged with black ink around the edges. Mounted on black. I added gold cording across the front and mounted it using 3D pop dots. It's a little bigger than what Jaydekay has, but I thought it worked well here. At first, I had regular rhinestones, but I changed them to hearts which I embossed gold. I had to make 2 separate pieces. Long story about the red background. I'll make it short. I ran out of my favorite red, and this is the only piece I had left with the sponged black on it. I hope it looks ok. Then I took another piece of scrap of the same red and used the decorative heart punch and added gold ribbon to hide the seam. Didn't I tell you that this is the heart image that wanted to win the fight? Well, I think I won, because I used it tonight, plus it's in 2 challenges. Thanks for the challenges. What do you think? Your comments are appreciated, please be honest! Thank you!
*I bought this stamp at a garage sale for 25 cents, otherwise I don't think I would of ever bought it myself.*
Things I changed for the FS: 5x7 card, heart brads, image, decorative corner punch
Thank you for looking!
Bonnie
Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009 GMT Views: 950
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Registered: May 15, 2005 Location: Arlington, Washington Posts: 30400
Sun, Jan 11, 2009 @ 10:30 AM
Bonnie! to bad this was such a struggle for you..... It turned out really stunning.. these rich vibrant colors are really eye catching... just beautiful... I LOVE IT!
thanks for the wonderful case!.
sooooo glad you played today!
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Judy
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Registered: July 18, 2006 Location: Beautiful, British Columbia, Canada Posts: 24229
Sun, Jan 11, 2009 @ 11:42 AM
Lovely card!
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