Today, I want to share a card with you that I made to show you more of the benefits of the Stampin' Blends alcohol markers. This card has a layout that follows a sketch that I love from Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #314:
I took a swirl that I had die cut from Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper using the Swirly Scribbles Thinlits and I coloured it using the darker shade of my Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Blends marker. Because it's an alcohol marker, and permanent, you can colour all sorts of things, Glimmer Paper included. You just don't want to do it a lot with the same marker, because it has the potential to ruin the brush nib of the pen. Conversely, you could purchase an alcohol marker of each colour eventually just for the purpose of colouring other objects. Let's see if you can find anything else that I coloured with my Stampin' Blends:
- I started with a fairly clean look with lots of Whisper White space on a base of Cherry Cobbler. I added a narrow strip of Merry Music Specialty Designer Series Paper for the bottom-most element of the sketch, then added the Glimmer Paper swirl. I had added a Multipurpose Adhesive sheet to the back before die-cutting, so after colouring it with my Stampin' Blends, I just had to remove the backing and stick it to my project.
- Next was the "Sentiment/Strip" from the sketch. I found this NOEL edgelit in the Christmas Stocking Thinlit Dies. It was the perfect thing for this element. I tried it in Cherry Cobbler, too, but it needed the black to make it pop!
- The smaller shape in front is represented by the detailed star here. This was die cut from Silver Glimmer Paper using one of the dies from the Starlight Thinlit Dies. It was also backed with the Multipurpose Adhesive sheet, so was easy to stick down.
- That brings us to something else coloured by the Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Blends marker - some small and medium Clear Faceted Gems. I added them to the card front to balance things, then added a couple of rhinestones to complete the balance. The Cherry Cobbler faceted gem in the middle of the star really helps it to show up better.
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2 comments :
What a cool tip and technique! And I love how you've used the circles die for a Christmas card. Thanks for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches this week!
All the sparkle makes this quite a stunner! Lovely take on the sketch. Glad to see you this week at FMS!
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