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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Fun Fold - Double Z Fold Card - SUO #119

The challenge with SUO (Stampin' Up Only) is to make a card that is folded differently than just in half.

I chose to make a double Z fold card, using mainly SAB products.

Card closed

Inside of Card

I started with a piece of Whisper White cardstock 11 by 4 1/4" and scored it at 2, 4, 8 and 10".  The card was then folded in half, and then the front was folded back to form the Z.

SAB DSP was attached to the inside , and 2 different patterns of the same DSP were adhered to the front.

A piece of Coastal Cabana cardstock was attached only to the front half.  On the Whisper White piece that was adhered to the Coastal Cabana, two images of the bird from "A Happy Time" were stamped using the masking technique.  Both were coloured with markers, and the background sponged with Soft Sky ink.  A Butterfly, from the stamp set "Nature's Perfection" was stamped in a remnant of watercolour washed background watercolor paper, cut out,and adhered to the lower left corner using glue dots.  A tiny flower was punched from the same remnant and adhered over the front sentiment.

On the inside I used 2 stamp sets for the sentiment:  "Simply Wonderful, and "A Happy Time"

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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)

Thank You so Much

I am going to try to use one SAB per day for the next week, and today is the start of it.  Two SAB products were used to make this Thank You card - The Sheer Perfection Designer Vellum and "Nature's Perfection" stamp set.

The small floral image was stamped with Black Stazon ink and coloured with SU markers.  This Whisper White piece was matted with Tempting Turquoise cardstock.

The base card is Tempting Turquoise, layered with Whisper White over which I placed the same size piece of the designer Vellum.  Prior to attaching the Vellum, the flowers and stems were coloured with markers on the wrong side.

The faux dye technique, as described in a SU video was done on a piece of Whisper White seam  binding using a Tempting Turquoise marker.  I let the ribbon dry overnight before I attached it to the card.

This ribbon and bow were adhered to the lower end of the card, over the Vellum and Whisper White layer.

Once that was complete, the art piece was attached to the upper left of the card using dimensionals.  The sentiment, from "Another Thank You" was stamped directly on the Vellum using Stazon ink.

To complete the card, a small butterfly from "Papillon Potpourri" was stamped on a vellum remnant piece and coloured on the wrong side with markers.  When dry, the butterfly was cut out and adhered to the image panel with a glue dot.

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