Apr 27 2009
Birthday Wishes!
Welcome to a brand new week, everyone! Here’s my card for the recent SCS LSC217, Limited Supplies Challenge, limiting us to the colors in one of our rooms at home. One of my bedrooms is based on the colors in the bedspread, shams & curtains, which include a soft ‘kraft’ color, with plum and soft green. Once I knew the colors, it was easy to plan the rest to fit with one of the Gina K challenges to use the main image again as the background! It’s been a while since I’ve done that, so it was a refreshing challenge. I was really in the mood to work with something ‘floral’.
I inked the main image with markers, stamped the central stem of flowers, then continued to stamp off to create the illusion of depth. In order to continue getting stamped off images, I did reink a couple of times and stamped the first inking off on scrap paper. For the background, I used the same floral stem, but inked only with stamped off Old Olive. The stem was stamped on the diagonal for added interest. A little bit of heat from the heat tool crinkled the organdy ribbon. Tex’s Tip: When heating ribbon to crinkle or melt, use a light touch with your heat tool. Too much heat too fast can easily melt a hole in your ribbon. So, easy does it!
In summary, this card is a quick & easy one to execute, with limited supplies necessary. I’m planning to add a couple to my ‘stash box’, and just save the sentiment to fit the needs later. I hope you enjoy! Thanks so much for stopping by!
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Card Recipe: STAMPS >> Tropical Flowers and Punchy Words (both Gina K)
PAPERS >> Old Olive, Perfect Plum, PTI Kraft, Very Vanilla
INKS >> Old Olive, Perfect Plum. SU Markers = Old Olive & Perfect Plum
ACCESSORIES >> Corner rounding punch, Scallop border punch, Spellbinders Nestabilities Ovals and Scallop Ovals, Paper Piercing Tool, Piercing mat, Word Window Punch, Organdy Ribbon, Heat Tool, foam tape.
10 responses so far
Wow! This is really beautiful!
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WOW………… this is GORGEOUS! Love the soft purple flowers……. wow!
wowza! just gorgeous! I bet your bedroom is just beautiful with those colors.
and I know what you mean about overheating the ribbon – I always felt the holes added to the ‘vintage’ feel! 😉 how is that for ‘smooth talking’ my way over an ‘ooooops’ moment?!?!
Absolutely gorgeous, Bev…I love, love, love haw you created the background and the purple flowers on the main image and FABULOUS!!!!!
This is really cool, BEV!!
I love the *HOT* colors!!
BWA-HA-hA-Ha!!!!!
Me thinks I posted under the wrong card!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT A SPAZZZZZZ!! I sure hope you are giggling, too!
This card is beautiful–in a completely different way!!!
I adore this watercolor look! Hmm, it could be an inspo for one of my paintings. I love the color combo too!
This is so lovely, Bev!! I love your big oval, pretty flowers, and the colors you’ve used!!
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