Hello!!! Wow... last day of 2017!! Where has the time gone?? Popping in with one last card to share for this year. This one is for the current MFT sketch challenge, as well as the MFT color challenge. I wanted to make a card using the Layered Snowflake dies from the Snowflake Splendor kit and thought it would be fun to pair them up with the colors from the color challenge to create little flowers. I die cut everything using the dies that looked the most like flowers and then added in the centers with one that looked like a flower center. I thought about mixing up the colors, but liked have the blues together and the yellow and orange together so I went with that. To make the colors pop I matted my white panel with a dark gray and then adhered that to a light gray cardstock base. The sentiment is from the MFT Geometric Greenery stamp set and was embossed in black on vellum. I will also be adding this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.
Hello!! Popping in on this second to last day of 2017 with one more card for the current Altenew year in review challenge. This time I picked the January color palette and did some coloring on kraft cardstock with my Prisma pencils. I need more practice, but I think things turned out fairly well. I used the Altenew Bamboo Rose stamp set and stamped all the images using Simon Says Stamp white pigment ink. Then colored up the images with the pencils you see in the photo. Once I was done I went over the outlines with the white Prisma pencil. I decided to trim out what I colored and then popped it up on an off white cardstock base that I stamped with the word hello from the Altenew Flower Arrangement set. The hello (from Altenew's Halftone Hello) was stamped on vellum, embossed in white, trimmed out and popped up. I really liked coloring on kraft so will definitely be doing more in the future! I'm also going to add this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.
Hello!! I have a card to share using the Concord & 9th Pineapple Perfection stamp set. I had a crazy idea to emboss the pineapple in copper on vellum and so I gave it a try! I really like how it turned out!! Originally I had the vellum pineapple backed with a pineapple cut from black cardstock, but I didn't like it as much as when I die cut the pineapple from dark brown. I will admit that the copper pineapple and the copper Happy Birthday are the third attempts for both. The first two pineapples got ruined and the first two happy birthdays did not die cut well. So you know the say... third times a charm!! The strip behind the pineapple is also copper, but is reading as gold in the photo. I added some splatters using a dark brown watercolor from my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor set. The panel was trimmed down, the strip adhered and then I added the pineapple and the sentiment using foam dimensionals. I think this would make a great masculine card. I will be adding this to the current Where Creativity Meets C9 anything goes challenge, the Freshly Made Sketches challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes. I have included a close up of the embossing so you can really see that it is copper and not gold.
