Happy Saturday!
I am behind with my homework for the Clean and Simple 4 OLClasses that I have had the pleasure of taking this past week...lots of good tips, tricks and easy techniques.
My card today incorporates two techniques that I have been exploring and a little one of my own thrown in. I decided to use this intricate Memory Box "Eva" stem/fern die to make a masculine birthday card. I started by die cutting from Fun Foam and I was quite surprised at how well the intricate pieces came out of the FF. Yes, I am using the Fun Foam again as shown by Karolyn. I adhered to a long rectangular acrylic block with some mono adhesive. Now, to stamp this fern image, I used a home crafted ink pad made with the following re-inkers, PTI Aqua Mist, Simply Chartreuse and SU Smoky Slate and Groovy Guava. Laura Bassen showed us this fun technique! I squirted these onto some folded baby wipes in bands of about one inch each and then stamped my fern like a regular stamp. I wanted to add a little something to the left edge of the card and improvised a technique that I will call "dip and drag". Yes, I dipped the edge into my home made ink pad and with a slight angle, dragged a little ways over top of the multi coloured ink pad. I trimmed the panel down a quarter inch and adhered to a top fold card and placed a thin linen textured strip of card stock for a bit more grounding. My SSS sentiment from Birthday set was stamped onto a piece of white card stock that I had coloured in Aqua Mist with my Aqua Mist ink pad. This card is headed over to CAS-ology for their Birthday cue and SSS Wednesday "Anything Goes". This is my "second cup" for both challenges.
Thanks for taking a peek today and hope that you have a fabulous weekend!
Chriss
Very lovely, Chriss! Love these new techniques you are sharing... and look at you creating your very own technique at that!!! Well done!
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Another amazing technique! So lovely!
ReplyDeleteFabulous effect from a fab technique :)
ReplyDeleteThat's such a cool technique, Chriss ... beautifully done ... that dip and drag is such a brilliant idea! Lovely card! Anita :)
ReplyDeleteCan I be the person in charge of grading, please? Because I give you an A+++ on your combination of several techniques in this beautiful card homework, Chriss! I love your homemade fern and the dragging really does add a lot!! That was one of the very first sort of "out there" techniques I learned once at a SU workshop. It's great to go around the edges with an ink pad of a small panel that is going in the center of a card to really make it pop. Thanks for the reminder! Hugs, Darnell
ReplyDeletehello Chriss! super sweet card, I luv ho you have stamped it in different colors...sweet! so glad you played along with Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!
ReplyDeleteadd a little glimmer to your life....sparkle & shine! *~*
Great demonstration of that technique, Chriss. Beautiful card! Thanks so much for joining us again at CASology this week!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous - full of technique, yet still CAS! So glad you joined us at CASology this week, Chriss!
ReplyDeleteWonderful Chriss!!! LOVE all the inkiness!!! Awesome that you joined us at CASology!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou gotta love Darnell! Now I am a teacher, a preschool teacher so I will have to agree with Darnell. A+++++, stunning, beautiful card and good luck in class and get your homework in on time.
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