Wow! It's Friday again! I can't believe how fast the weeks fly by. And the months! I just completed my monthly newsletter and sent it out yesterday! It's always quite a big task for the week, but it feels like I was just doing January's newsletter! At this rate, it's going to be summer before I know it! Wait...What?! That's a good thing, right!
Anyway, this week, I have a chance to play along with The Paper Player's Challenge! I wish I could work it so that I'm not always slipping it in under the wire, but that's the way my blog schedule always seems to work out! Whatever! As long as I get to play, it's all good. Here's the great sketch from Nance:
It's interesting how my plans change. I knew I was going to use Lots of Lavender, the Sale-A-Bration Reward stamp set you can earn when you spend $60. I've had it for awhile but haven't had a chance to ink it up yet. I also had the idea that I wanted to make a great watercolour background using Brusho Crystal Colour, and then I wanted to emboss the outline of the lavender in Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder. I worked for quite awhile on the background. The Brusho is so much fun to play around with! Here's how it turned out:
Then I worked on the Lots of Lavender image. Knowing that I wouldn't be able to stamp the background colour over the embossed outline because of the emboss resist effect, I had to estimate where to place the colours for the leaves, stem and bow. I wasn't worried if I was a bit out because it's a watercolour effect and it doesn't have to be exact because of that. But when I put everything together, the background was just too much for the image, as much as I loved it. As soon as I pulled it out and left the plain Gold Sheet in behind, I knew that more clean and simple look was the one that needed to happen. That lovely background will have to wait for another more suitable card.
- The Basic Gray and Basic Black backgrounds provide a more dramatic and elegant backdrop for the Gold Foil and the embossed Lots of Lavender image.
- I stamped the lavender flower colours first in Perfect Plum, Old Olive and Real Red. I then stamped the outline over top in Versamark Ink and sprinkled on the Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder, and heat set it. I was pretty accurate in my estimates of where to place the background colour in order to have it match up with the embossed image, seeing as I had to guess.
- The image and a scallop oval backing were die cut using the Layering Ovals Framelits. They are mounted on the card front using Stampin' Dimensionals
- The sentiment is embossed in Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder on a strip of Basic Black cardstock, fitting just underneath the oval shape of the lavender.
What do you think I should use the Brusho Background for?
We just got word this week that Stampin' Up! will issue a second release of three new Sale-A-Bration rewards on February 16. Keep watching my blog for further information on these awesome new products, coming your way soon!
Well, that's all I have the energy for tonight! Have a wonderful weekend and see you again Monday!
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