Friend to Friend - Blendabilities Background

This is the second card I made from the blendabilities background created in class on Wednesday.  This time I focused more on the neutral colours of the paper, and using the same stamp set as in the first card the image of the grass was stamped, using black stazon ink, directly onto the photopaper.

The image was then die cut using the oval framelits, and adhered directly to the soft suede card base.  The whisper white layer was embossed with the Argyle folder, and was die cut in the upper middle with an oval framelit die using one size smaller. This created a window for the image.
To form a frame around the image, I took the two sizes of oval framelits and die cut the soft suede forming an oval frame.
Some 1/8" chocolate chip taffeta ribbon was adhered to some Very Vanilla seam binding and then attached to the embossed layer below the image.  In the middle of the bow a wood embellishment was adhered, with a small flower glued in the middle.  I coloured a small rhinestone with a dark crumb cake blendability and put it in the center of the flower.

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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.

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