Freshly Made Sketches #727

The minute I saw Michele's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches an idea sparked.  Then I thought maybe the image was too big.  I made the card anyway.  What do you think?

I got the Honey Bee Lovely Layers Wishing Well because I'm attracted to old, rusty metal and wood things and this well appealed to me.  I made it right away and then it sat in the package until I pulled it out for this card. The background was colored with Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass and Twisted Citron.  The dark gray frame is from Waffle Flower and the grass is from Gina Marie.  I tried to match the green ink to the cardstock.  I had a difficult time coming up with a sentiment and was going to go without when I ran across this one from PTI.  I would have done the grass differently if I had the sentiment before I added it but I stamped it on the same paper and trimmed it down. I think it works.  

This is going to be a busy weekend.  Both my son and granddaughter have birthdays tomorrow. We will celebrate Allyson on Sunday before going to the middle school play where my great grandson has the second lead in High School Musical Jr. His sister also has a dance competition on Saturday but I won't be going since I've already seen the dances.  Allyson's brother and his family will be joining us as well as her other grandma who came down from Michigan for the occasion.  Like I said - It's going to be a busy weekend but so much fun.  

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Just Us Girsl #814 - Word Week

Hello, Friends!  I'm the host of Just Us Girls for Word Week and my word is

Emboss can mean several things so you do what you do best whether heat emboss or dry emboss.  As for me, I dry embossed with a new technique that I learned in a Jennifer McGuire class at Simon Says Stamp.

It started with glossy cardstock and an embossing folder called Tiny Flora.  After embossing, I rubbed CP ink in Sweet Sixteen, Garden Party and Mint to Be lightly over the raised areas and then wiped it off.  I used the same Sweet Sixteen over an embossed piece of vellum.  Then it was putting the two pieces together.  First I cut the glossy panel at an angle and then cut three other pieces of white cardstock in the same shape.  Next I folded the vellum in half carefully to keep it from splitting.  

Glue the glossy panel to the vellum using an A2 panel to get the correct size.   Glue one of the white pieces to the back of the glossy panel and then repeat for the back of the card. 

To finish it off, I cut a strip of white and one of silver to run across where the two papers meet.  The die cut sentiment is from SSS cut in silver with a shadow in white.   Here's a side view of the completed card. 

Will you try something new or return to a tried and true technique for your card?  Check out the wonderful cards from our Design Team and guest Milla for plenty of inspiration.  See you in the gallery. 

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The Paper Players #776

There is a "Colors of the Rainbow" challenge at The Paper Players and instead of making an actual rainbow I pulled out an older stamp set that features flowers.

I've always loved these Artful Flowers from SSS.  I masked and stamped seven of them for ROYGBIV, coloring them with Zigs.  I can't tell you how long it took to find a sentiment and I'm still not happy with it.  I didn't have anything with the thin lines of the flowers.  Then it seemed unfinished so I added splatters using Altenew's Jet Black spray.  I don't actually spray it but dab a bit in the box and use a thin paint brush.  This has worked better for me than using thinned acrylic paint and I get a dark black.  

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Inkspirational #362

They had me at plaid.  The challenge at Inkspirational is stencil - with the option of plaid and I went with the option.

I really thought I had more plaid stencils but I only found this Buffalo plaid by Echo Park in my stencil file.  I thought it would make a great Sweater Vest using the dies from Sunny Studio with the same name.  It was stenciled with Rusty Hinge Distress Ink on PTI Fine Linen cardstock.  For the sentiment I thought a small 'emblem' on the shoulder would be the best way to go.  It's from PTI, gold embossed on a scrap of rust.  The card base was cut with the same die so it's a shaped card.

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