You know how life sometimes gets in the way? Well, that was my day yesterday. Nothing bad happened, it’s just that things took longer than anticipated.
The project I have for you today also took longer to make than I thought it would but I am very pleased with the end result.
The card is for this week’s Global Design Challenge #GDP318 which is a sketch challenge. If you click on the image below, it will take you over the the GDP page and you can see what the Design Team created and this week’s entries.
I decided to use the Blessings of Home Stamp Set, coordinating Flowers of Home Dies and Heart & Home Designer Series Paper. These were available to domenstrators to order for our recent OnStage @ Home event.
Just before I started taking photos of my card, my new ring light was delivered. So please be patient while I master using it to get a great light and reduce shadows.
I chose Fresh Freesia for my card base because I knew that I wanted to use the alcohol ink and rubbing alcohol technique on some white vellum. The Fresh Freesia looks softly muted through the vellum.
I used my Dard Smoky Slate Stampin’ Blend to completely colour the vellum layer. Then I spritzed and dropped rubbing alcohol on the alcohol ink. This is the best sample of this technique I have made so far.
The Stampin’ Seal+ is perfect to attach vellum to the card base. I only used small amounts of the adhesive, positioned around the edges and in the centre, to hold it in place. The great thing is, you cannot see the adhesive.
I cut a piece of DSP and layered it, at an angle, on a piece of Basic Gray cardstock. This was then placed on the front of the card using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I need to work on this lighting!
While I was using the alcohol ink and rubbing alcohol, I made two extra pieces of vellum and coloured one in Dark Fresh Freesia and another in Dark Smoky Slate. I cut several flower and leaf stems from this vellum using one of the dies from the Flowers of Home Dies. They were overlaid onto each other using Mini Glue Dots to hold them together, as a floral bouquet.
Lengths of Fresh Freesia Open Weave Ribbon were cut in half lengthways and looped around to create the ribbon decoration. The floral bouquet was then placed in the centre of the loops.
The sentiment was stamped in Basic Gray ink. I used my Stamparatus to do this because I wanted to stamp the sentiment a second time, using Versamark, so that I could heat emboss some Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder. This gives it a fabulous sheen. I trimmed the sentiment back so that only the ‘thank you’ remained.
I added a strip of the coloured vellum to the card insert and envelope.
The finishing touch was to add some of the Fresh Freesia In Colour Jewels to the front of the card.
I am very happy with this card and I think that it is a great card for the sketch challenge. What do you think? Do you like it?
Until next time, happy stamping.
If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.
Because some of the products I have used to make this card are not yet available to customers, I am not able to show them at this time. As soon as product images go live, I will create this section.
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