The early morning sun was shining in as I photographed this card from last night’s midnight stamp-fest!! Last week I received a beautiful card from a fellow Instagram-er (@myloveforpaper) which inspired me to create this! After embossing Penny Black’s Sweet Perfume background stamp in gold onto Bristol Smooth paper, I selectively colored sections using Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. I began with the hot pink flowers, scribbled a little color onto them then spritzed with water. I let them dry while I moved to another part of the panel, doing the same thing. When the panel got too wet, I set it aside to air-dry, then returned to fill in more glorious color! Feeling satisfied with the finished colors, I trimmed the panel down to mount onto a panel of gold metallic card stock, and that’s when the “fun” began!! I knew I’d be using the green base card, and wanted a little contrast between the gold and green so I decided to add the white layer. That meant I had to trim down my watercolored panel a little more. It cut a little unevenly, perhaps because it was buckled from all my water! So THEN I decided to use sticky fun foam to mount it onto, thinking that would flatten it out! It did a bit, but a teeny bit of the green fun foam was showing along the sides so I cut it again!! You don’t have to look too closely to note that all my layers are not even. SIGH!! Oh, and that “You”??!! Sadly, I don’t think there are dies for Stampendous’ Big Word Thanks sets and after unsuccessfully fussy-cutting a gold-embossed YOU, instead I just embossed it onto my card front, hoping I wouldn’t ruin the whole thing! I embossed the other sentiment onto a scrap and adhered it directly to the card. You can see the layer of green fun foam in this photo, and I wish I’d used black or white, but…OH well!! 😀 All in all, this was a fun card to create and I love the overall look of it!
Sharon, it’s an awesome card! You don’t have to point out the mistakes. I still couldn’t see it even after you said!! Lol ! You certainly inspire so many. I just wish I had as much stuff to work with as you have. Ha ha
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Just curious, how large is this card?
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All my cards are 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 inches, Michele. If you’ve viewing on a computer screen, they appear gigantic, right?! 😀
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Sharon, it’s an awesome card! You don’t have to point out the mistakes. I still couldn’t see it even after you said!! Lol ! You certainly inspire so many. I just wish I had as much stuff to work with as you have. Ha ha
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I guess I shouldn’t point them out~ point taken! 😀 I’ve been stamping (and collecting!) since 1999!!! :O
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