Wetlands Happy Birthday - Blendabilities Background on Photopaper

I tried the blendabilities background technique on photo paper and it worked fairly well.  Here is my sample using the following colours:  Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, and Smoky Slate.

 So, of course I had to make a card.  The colours screamed Masculine card to me, so I used the Wetlands stamp set.

The image was stamped onto the coloured photo paper using Black stazon ink.  One thing I noticed that was different from the Glossy cardstock was that the stamp stuck to the paper more.
After I had stamped, I discovered that I could do some colouring of the image with the blendabilities, so I used Coastal Cabana on the body of the bird, Smoky Slate on the neck and Daffodil Delight on the beak and legs.  Some Old Olive was applied to the tips of the grass.

After colouring, the image was die cut using the ovals framelits.  Then I made an oval frame using Crumb Cake cardstock (I placed two sizes of oval frames on the Big Shot at the same time) and sponged the edges with Early Espresso ink.

The image was then applied to the middle a piece of DSP from the Adventure Bound Series DSP pack.  I then wrapped a piece of Linen Thread twice around the oval (glueing it down with tombo)

You can see this in the side view.


The DSP was matted with Very Vanilla cardstock, the edges of which had been sponged with Early Espresso ink.  This was attached to the Always Artichoke cardstock base.

Two stars were punched from the remnant of the blendabilities background and placed in each of the 4 corners.  A tiny circle, punched using the Owl Builder punch again from the background, was attached to each star.

Here are the supplies I used:

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Thinking of You - Wetlands - Card #2 Blendabilities Background

This is the second card is a series using the blendabilities backgrounds I created yesterday.  I again use the "Wetlands" stamp set (this is one of my favourite stamp sets) and the "Thinking of You sentiment.  I must be thinking about someone.  Actually I am.  My older sister in Vancouver had a heart attack this week, and she wants me to come and visit her.  I don't know if I can travel. Any way, that's another story.  I am thinking about someone.

For this background I used the dark shade of all the following blendabilites with the exception of the Crumb Cake which is also used the light shade:  Crumb Cake light, Crumb Cake medium, Bermuda Bay, and Daffodil Delight.

Here's how the card turned out.  For some reason the card is a little crooked.

This is the side view.  I intended to stamp 2 rows of sandpipers, but I goofed with the second row.  Glossy card stock is very slippery, and if you press on the paper too hard, the image smears, which is what happened.  As a result, I created a totally different looking card.  This time I used some embellishments.

The base card is Soft Suede, layered with Whisper White with a panel of Coastal Caban on the left side.  Attached to this panel is a strip of Soft Suede die cut using the large scallop framlet, and then attached a 1/4" Daffodil delight ribbon over the seam.  A knot made with the ribbon is attached at the top using a glue dot.
At the bottom, on the panel, are attached to round bitty buttons, with a small round punch of soft suede underneath.  That was punched with the Itty Bitty punch pack (the circle one).  Attached to the top of one of them is bow of Early Espresso Baker's twine.

The sentiment is from "Walk in the Wild"

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The bitty buttons are retired.
As well as the other papers, I also used Glossy Cardstock.