Well? How was your long weekend? Mine was good, but yesterday I discovered a leak under our kitchen sink which led to replacing the entire sink. The new sink was larger than the original one, which led to cutting a larger hole in the counter top which led to a big mess...oh and did I mention that all of this started at 3:00 pm yesterday? I was vaccuuming sawdust and wiping down kitchen cabinets at 11:00 last night! Ah well, the new sink looks great and I'm glad there is no more leak.
Today I have one of the projects I designed for my upcoming Fabulous Flower Patch class.
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Birthday card featuring the Flower Patch and not-yet-released Good Greetings Hostess set and using the Emerging Colours technique. |
Kinda funkadelic retro, no? I have to say the photo doesn't really do it justice...the colours really pop! So how'd I do it? I started by sponging Crushed Curry and Melon Mambo ink in random splotches all over a piece of Whisper White card stock. The cool part it that where those two colours overlap I got a shade remarkably close to Pumpkin Pie! Once the ink had dried (important to allow time for this!) I rubbed my embossing buddy all over the inked surface (this is also a VERY important step). Then I stamped various images from the Flower Patch stamp set using Versamark ink all over the sponged card stock. I sprinkled on clear embossing powder and the heat embossed it. Then the magic happened, I sponged Blackberry Bliss ink over the entire surface. The ink adheres to the card stock, but not to the embossed images, making those colourful flowers just pop.
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The rest of the card was pretty simple. To do the background stripes I cut 3/4" wide strips of Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie and Crushed Curry card stock and adhered them to a 2-1/4" wide strip of Whisper White card stock. Then I ran the whole thing through the Big Shot with the Arrows TIEF. I glued the strip to a Black Berry Bliss card base at a 45 degree angle and trimmed off the excess. The sentiment is from a new set called Good Greetings that will be part of a Host promotion for the upcoming Holiday Catalogue. I punched it out with the Curly Label punch and adhered it to the stamped piece, adding a wee Vintage Faceted button and some Crushed Curry baker's twine.
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Inside view with sentiment from Endless Birthday Wishes. |
On the inside I stamped several of the same flower images in Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry and Pumpkin Pie ink and then added a sentiment from the Endless Birthday Wishes set. I love how this one turned out!
Now since its Tuesdaym here are this week's deals:
Groovy technique and funky colours - love it! I've never seen that done before and it is awesome!
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