Monday, July 18, 2016

Sending You Prayers


Day 4 of My Favorite Things Camp Create challenge series is "Magnificent Masking." I had seen a technique demonstrated by Nichol Magouirk, where she inked a panel with Distress ink, and then inked over it again (with the same color) through a stencil to create a tone-on-tone background. I decided to try that with MFT's "Petal Circles" stencil (apparently discontinued).
I cut a piece of white cardstock to 4x5.25" for my panel. I then inked it in Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, and Shaded Lilac Distress inks. I really like the green/purple color combination, and added the Peacock Feathers to prevent the Cracked Pistachio & Shaded Lilac from making mud where they would overlap.

When I was inking, to get a smooth blend, I added a lot of ink to the cardstock. After I'd gotten the green & blue rather dark, I happened to think that I might be ruining my panel by going too dark, too fast. But I decided to press on and finish inking. I figured, if I had ruined it, all I would waste by proceeding was a bit more ink and some time. So I finished inking, and then taped the stencil over the panel. I inked through the stencil with the same colors. When I'd finished, I lifted one corner of the stencil to take a peek and see if the color value difference was great enough. And it had worked! I had the two-tone effect I'd been going for. Whew! I did add a little more Shaded Lilac over that area to deepen the design color, and removed the stencil.

For the greeting, I stamped the "Sending you" & "prayers" from Hero Arts' "Prayers" set onto a scrap of mint cardstock with Versamark ink. I heat embossed it with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder, and cut it into a strip. I rounded both right corners with my 1/4" Corner Chomper, and adhered it to my background panel.

I decided my card needed a little something extra, so I stamped one of the butterflies from Our Daily Bread Designs' "Trois Jolies Papillons" set onto vellum with Versamark, and heat embossed that with Liquid Platinum as well. I die cut it with the coordinating die, and used a little Perfect Paper Adhesive on the body to glue it in place, overlapping the greeting strip. Finally, I matted the panel with a piece of cream cardstock, and adhered it to a white A2 card base.

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

a2z Scrapbooking's July Challenge: "Anything Goes"
Pile It On Challenge #112: "Use Your Favorite Colors"
Virginia's View Challenge #22: "All About Colors"

20 comments:

  1. What a really great looking card! Love the colors & design!

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  2. So pretty! I really like your background and the layout - just gorgeous! Thanks for sharing over at a2z!

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  3. Beautiful ombre background. Lovely card.

    So glad you joined us at a2z Scrapbooking.

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  4. Love the ombré! Beautiful card as always Andrea. Thanks for joining us at a2z scrapbooking!

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  5. I love the color choice and the metallic embossing, beautiful card! Thanks for joining us at a2z scrapbooking!

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  6. Beautiful Andrea. Thanks for playing along with us at A2Z this month

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  7. Wow beautiful ombre background and very delicate vellum butterfly!! Thanks for playing with us at a2z.

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  8. Such a lovely and beautiful card! Love the background and the sentiment.
    Thank You for playing along wiith our a2z Scrapbooking July Challenge!

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  9. ok, this is my fave! glad to see it at a2z!

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