Good Friday Morning Ladies,
Well this week has absolutely flown, I was making cards yesterday thinking it was Thursday today, not Friday! I haven't given the new challenge a thought, is there any techniques or style that you'd like us all to focus on???
Today's card started simply with a plain piece of mixed media card that was 'spritzed' with Distress Spray Stain in Milled Lavender & Seedless Preserves, after spritzing I placed another piece of mixed media card on top of the original spritzed one, there is a lot of ink on the surface, so why not get a two for one?! It also helps to even the ink out across the whole card. I set it on the Aga to dry and made another couple of blends. Once it was dry I stamped the SU French Script background, I partially inked it with Seedless Preserves Distress ink so that it matched, I didn't want a perfectly stamped background, I wanted it to be just here and there, which us luckily what I acheived.
When all inking was dry I stamped the Tim Holtz 'Floral Outline' Floral spray onto my background, now I'm not sure if it's the mixed media card or the inks but my goodness did I have a job getting the Clear Embossing ink to sit on the card long enough to hold the white embossing powder, it seemed to keep getting absorbed by the card, I eventually got some embossing powder to stick and heat set. I distressed the edges of the stamped piece and mounted it onto a piece of white card and then matted it onto a card base the worked with the Shaded Lilac. To finish the card I added a butterfly stamped on vellum and die cut and popped another die cut butterfly in white to make it stand out, I propped the upper part of butterfly with a foam pad and added a sentiment below it.
The white areas around the bottom of the card are just areas that the Distress Stain missed
Your card is so pretty I love these two colours
ReplyDeleteIt is Oscar’s 9th birthday today Now that time has really flown
Haircut later this morning and hope to see Oscar after school
I am so looking forward to seeing you tomorrow
Take care everyone xx
Hi Sandra and all looking in. I love everything about today’s card, so pretty.
ReplyDeleteI’m never sure what day of the week it is so I know the feeling xx
I’m really looking forward to seeing some of you tomorrow so I’m off to bed soon. Take care. Love Sue xx
Hi
ReplyDeleteA fabulous card Sandra. Lovely colour.
I struggle to get embossing powder to stay on sometimes too, don't really know why.
Did some crafting this afternoon after doing some housework this morning,
Really looking forward to tomorrow, shame we can't all get together .
Mum has been rushed to hospital, had reports from my sister during the day. Stressful if anything as you can understand.
Hope your day have been nice. Hugs to you all, Maria xx