Technique Challenge: Levy Tabs
Now that is one easy challenge. I use those tabs all the time!!!
After reading your comments on favorite stamp sets, I was in the mood for using the Doodle this set. My blogging friend Ally doesn’t like the roundish flower in this set, so I decided to use it and hopefully show her that this flower can be pretty too.
I started with stamping three flowers in black on Cool Caribbean cardstock. I sprayed over the images with water and sloppily colored it with Cool Caribbean reinker and aqua painter. I then cut them out and added white highlights with the white gel pen.
Next I took a 2 1/4″ x 5″ strip of white cardstock and stamped the swirl stamp all over in black. I then colored those in with Celery reinker. The white paper was still a bit too white for me so I made my aqua painter really wet, added more celery reinker and flicked it’s brush over my finger to add speckles to the cardstock. I repeated the same with black ink. Yes…..my finger looks nasty now. But I was too lazy to get my Spritzer tool. I layered the stamped cardstock on a 2 1/2″ x 5 1/4″ piece of black cardstock.
I still had a cool caribbean trifold card base in my scrap pile. The cardstock for this measures 6 ” x 9 1/2″. It’s scored at 3″ and 6″. I stamped Paisley in Caribbean on the front panel. It still seemed like something was missing. I don’t know if you know that, but I am not really confident in my doodling. But I thought some black doodles around the main image would look good. The doodles from the set wouldn’t work because I wanted it to look like a border. So I took a DEEP breath and doodled away with my Pigma Mircon pen. I like how it came out.
The flowers are attached with dimensionals. Before taping the main image on to the front panel, I added celery cardstock on the bottom panel and stamped happy birthday on it from the Amazing To Zany set. I use that set all the time! LOVE it! To add just a little more black to the bottom piece, I used the dotted strip from All in a Row. Another set that is absolutely wonderful!
I stamped Congrats from the same set on a small piece of certainly celery cardstock and stamped the swirl stamp over both celery cardstock pieces. I taped the tab under the main image. A piece of white organdy ribbon ties the card shut. I placed the bow on the left hand side next to my Happy Birthday and then secured the ribbon by taping the main image over it.
I hope you like it. Ally? How about it? You still dislike this flower?
