For Being You - Create with Connie & Mary #348

I've had a really busy day today - and yesterday.  My older sister, in Vancouver, was very upset and anxious because of a medical diagnosis she had received.For the next hour it was crisis intervention time. When she settled down a bit. she wanted me to phone our other sister in Kingston because she wants her and myself to come to Vancouver as soon as we could arrange it.  Then she wanted me to e-mail her daughter in Australia as she was too anxious and tearful to have a phone conversation with her.
I phoned my younger sister only to find that she was also unwell.  She had recently visited a very poor section of India with her church, and picked up a "bug" - a gastro bug and has been quite ill and consquently been unable to eat.  She's lost weight and looks like a bag of bones!  But its been the fatigue that she finds most distressing.

So it fell upon me to research flights to Vancouver , find the cheapest one,  constantly e-mailing my sister back and forth with the information, & also keeping my older sister informed.

Nothing has been settled as to when my sister and I will go to Vancouver, but we're planning around the middle of June.

But enough about me.  When all the crises were dealt with I just wanted to sit down and make a card.  I chose to do the colour challenge with Connie & Mary   The colours:  Rose Red, Soft Sky and Sahara Sand.

 

After embossing one of the new fun frames, a small piece of Sahara Sand was cut to fit in the center.  On this small piece, the flower from the stamp set "Nature's Perfection" was stamped with Versa Mark and embossed with black embossing powder. With a small brush and some household bleach, the flower and leaf were painted with bleach to remove the colour.  After drying with a heat tool, some Rose Red was returned to the flower using an Aqua painter and a Rose Red inkpad.  A little bit of Rose Red was put on the leaf as well.

The edges of this art piece were sponged with Rose Red ink and adhered to the inside of the embossed frame.  To take some of the stark whiteness away from the frame it was sponged with Sahara Sand ink.

The base card is Soft sky, layered with Sahara Sand which was embossed with the Tiny Triangles embossing folder.  A piece of Soft Sky scalloped at the lower end, was adhered to the middle of the card.  A piece of designer vellum with the same flower on it was coloured on the wrong side with a Rose Red marker.  Not every flower was coloured.  When done it was adhered to the scalloped soft sky strip.  To the top of this strip was adhered a piece of Sahara Sand lace ribbon.

The Fun Frame was added to the card on the left side using dimensionals.

The sentiment is from "For Being You", stamped with Basic Black on Sahara Sand, and punched with a small oval punch.  The edges were sponged with Red Rose ink and then matted with a Soft sky modern word label punch.  Some pearls were placed beneath the sentiment.

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For Being You- The Paper Players #237

Today's card also uses SAB products, both paper and a stamp set.  I made a Thank You card using the sketch challenge with The Paper Players

I had a remnant of colour washed watercolour paper left over when I made several backgrounds using different colours.  Check out my post here.  For this background technique 3 different ink colours were applied to an acrylic block, the block spritzed with water, and then placed on a piece of watercolour paper.

For the paper remnant that I used for this card I used:  Marina Mist, Pool Party and Tempting Turquoise.

 

The image was stamped on the background watercolour remnant using Black Stazon ink, and was matted with Old Olive cardstock.
The word was first watercoloured using an aquapainter with Marina Mist ink, with the shaded areas Pacific Point.  Then I went over the letters with Frost White glimmer paint.

The embellishment, from the stamp set " Nature's Perfection" was stamped with Stazon Ink onto another remnant of the watercolour wash backgrounds I had created earlier. In that instance I had used Strawberry Slush, Pink Pirouette and Tangerine Tango.  The image was stamped 3 times and then cut into 3 floral layers.  The edges were painted with a mixture of Dazzling Details and black stampin' glitter.  When dry, the flower was reassembled with dimensionals between the layers and attached to the lower left of the sentiment panel with a dimensional.  Since I had some of the paper left over, I punched a few itty bitty flowers using the itty bitty flower punch and attached them above the sentiment with glue dots. Rhinestones were placed in the center of these tiny flowers, and a larger rhinestone was added to the flower embellishment.

The base cardstock is Marina Mist cardstock, layered with Whisper White, and this was layered with a piece of Sheer Perfection Designer Vellum.  The leaves of this piece were coloured with an Old Olive marker on the wrong side before being attached to the Whisper White layer.

The 3 banners below the sentiment panel are made from pieces of Marina Mist (dotted with Frost White shimmer paint), a piece of the watercolour wash background and embossed with the Happy Hearts folder, and the last with a piece of Old Olive cardstock.


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I also used:  Frost White shimmer paint (retired), and Black Stampin' Glitter (retired)

For Being You - a Dahlia Fold Card - a partial CASE

This card was featured on Pinterest, and I immediately thought it would make a wonderful Mother's Day card for my class.  However, 3 of my students do not have their mother anymore, so I changed the sentiment for something more neutral.

It is a partial case from Biggan at splitcoaststampers.  However, I did change a few things around.

I started by punching five 1 3/8" circles, and sponging them with Blushing Bride with the edges Pear Pizzaz.  These I folded into dahlia flowers using this tutorial.  The stem was die cut using Pear Pizzaz cardstock and the Bouquet die.
The stem and flowers were arranged on a Very Vanilla background embossed with the script embossing folder.  This background was matted with Pink Pirouette cardstock and then a 1/4" Pink Pirouette ribbon and bow were adhered to the bottom.
This was adhered to a Sahara Sand layer, which in turn was adhered to a Blushing Bride base card.

The sentiment is "For Being You" (SAB) and was punched using the oval die.  The oval was reinserted back into the punch to reduce its size.  It was also sponged with Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzaz.

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I also used the script embossing folder (retired) and the Bouquet die.

Thank You - Watercolour Wash Salt Background Technique

I saw this technique on a video done by Patty Bennett and was motivated to made a few cards using the watercolour wash salt background technique.  All you need is watercolour paper (I just used scraps), an Spritzer with water in it, Clean acrylic block (any size), 3 different colours of ink pads and some protective covering for your table.

These are some I made.  You can see the salt (coarse sea salt) on the surface of the papers.  Let the watercolour paper dry and then brush the salt off into the garbage.

The colours I used:  Island Indigo, Marina Mist, and Old Olive.  The salt has been removed from the pieces.

I stamped the sentiment from `For Being You`with Black Stazon ink on the background immediately above the picture.  With an aquapainter and the Island Indigo ink pad, the letters were filled in with that colour, as were the hearts below.  Some glitter was added to each letter.

The sentiment was matted with Island Indigo cardstock, and attached to the DSP, using dimensionals. The DSP is ``Irresistibly Yours`` (SAB) which was sponged with Old Olive and Pool Party.  This was attached to Pool Party cardstock, at which point Island Indigo ribbon was added to the left side.  The layer was then attached to an Island Indigo card base.

Three butterflies were punched using the Bitty  butterfly punch and attached using glue dots.  Rhinestones were added in the center of each butterfly.

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I also used coarse sea salt.