Time Out #312 - Photo Inspiration

It's time for the photo inspiration challenge at Time Out.

There is a larger picture on the blog if you need more details.  

I started with an inked panel using Weathered Wood, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Abandoned Coral, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress Oxides.  I thought the Oxides would give me a softer look but it was still too bright.  Here's the fix and final card.

A vellum overlay tones down the colors and gives a great place to stamp and heat emboss the flowers from Altenew's Poppy Garden.  The sentiment is from their Japanese Anemone. 

Our sponsor is Doodlebugs who is offering a $25 store credit to our winner who will also be asked to guest design for a future challenge. 

The Design Team and our guest designer have some wonderful cards to inspire you.  Please check them out and make a card for this challenge.  We'd love to see you in the gallery.

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52 Christmas Card Throwdown - 16.23

It's technique week at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.  

I really need to add some heavy vellum to my stash.  My thin stuff didn't work so I used my LF pearlescent vellum.  I think that was a mistake order but I do love it. 

After embossing with SSS Pepperberry folder, I added an Altenew double-sided sticky sheet and adhered it to white a card base.  For some reason it looks a little pink.  The folder comes with a die that I cut, embossed and colored with Zigs. The silver heat embossed sentiment is from PTI.

I had to try a second one, putting the vellum on Vintage Jadeite from PTI.  It's only May and I'm half way to my needed Christmas cards.   I'm feeling pretty good about that.

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Inkspirational #274

The photo at Inskspirational reminded me of a technique I've been doing lately with embossing on vellum although I didn't stamp on both sides for this one.  I was having too much trouble with my anti-static powder tool and wasted three other panels before I broke out the baby powder. 

The embossed flowers are from Altenew's Garden Treasure.  I cut the Poppystamps scalloped frame in white, cut a slightly larger rectangle from kraft and sandwiched the vellum panel between them and the card base.  A little strip of the kraft was embossed with an MFT sentiment.   

Thanks so much for dropping by.  Praying for my family and friends who live in the path of Hurricane Ian. 

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