An interesting trio of challenges. I'm a little behind, so I'm combining them. It almost didn't happen because of the ric-rack thing. I dug around in all my sewing stuff (haven't used it in so long, I couldn't remember what half of it was used for.) Surely there must be one piece of ric-rack. Good news-found one piece. Bad news- it's bright orange. Orange? Are you kidding me? What in the world would I EVER have needed this for? Halloween? It's a mystery.
So what do I do w/ orange ric-rack? I tried bleach. Didn't even fade the orange. It soaked up the bleach and laughed at me. Only one thing left. Big honking black magic marker. Nothing laughs at a permanent black marker.
So I stamped the images onto the s.sky w/ black ink. Since I already had the bleach out, I painted it on a few leaves (be sure to use a synthetic brush; bleach will eat natural bristles.) Then added some dots w/ the bleach and used a black marker to dot the center of the white spots. Edged w/ the marker and attached to kraft then black.
Stamped the sentiment and mostly cut it out and layered. Stamped one set of leaves onto the kraft, bleached a few and paper pieced the others. Used the frame created when you use the nesties to punch an oval to frame my leaves.
Added a die cut buckle to the (now) black ric-rack and put it all together on a s.sky card. Take that you ugly orange ric-rack! (That's the before color in the lower left corner of the pic.) TFL
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Registered: August 26, 2006 Location: Posts: 15707
Thu, Jun 19, 2008 @ 4:59 PM
Great work with the rick-rack. Just goes to prove that necessity IS the mother of invention, and that having a black Sharpie is always a necessity! Amazing scissor work, too.
Registered: May 15, 2005 Location: Arlington, Washington Posts: 30400
Thu, Jun 19, 2008 @ 5:24 PM
at least you found some ric rak, I think mine went a long time ago... what a great idea.. black marker... worked perfect..
this is such a pretty card!
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Registered: July 30, 2007 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 3830
Thu, Jun 19, 2008 @ 6:06 PM
I LOVE this card! I am going to have to keep the black marker tip in my back pocket, too! Thanks for the info about the bleach and natural bristles - I would never have stopped to think about that! Gorgeous! TFS!
Registered: February 26, 2007 Location: On SCS Posts: 36625
Thu, Jun 19, 2008 @ 7:30 PM
You have AMAZING diligence and talent!!! I would have blown off the orange ric-rac in a heartbeat!
Your card is so pretty...love the bleaching technique. Gotta try it sometime myself.
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Registered: February 7, 2007 Location: Alberta, Canada Posts: 13937
Thu, Jun 19, 2008 @ 8:14 PM
Well aren't you clever...not sure that I would have thought to color the ric rac...probably would have gone with a Halloween theme!!! Lol!!! This is gorgeous...love that framed panel!!!