October 17, 2007

Spotlighted Flowers

I made this card for the tutorial on Splitcoast today.

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The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Purely Pomegranate cardstock.

I sponged the sides and used the corner rounder on the bottom two corners.

Next I added a 2″ x 4 1/4″ piece of black cardstock layered with a 1 3/4″ x 4 1/4″ piece of Apple Cider Designer paper on the lower half of the card base.

For the main image the berry stem from Oh so Lovely three times in Black Stazon on a 2 1/2″ x 3″ piece of  Shimmery White cardstock. I paper pierced the edges and layered it on a 1/4″ bigger piece of basic black cardstock. The next layer is a 3″ x 3 1/2″ piece of Soft Sky cardstock. I stamped it with the background stamp from Oh so Lovely and sponged it’s edges.

To highlight part of the image I stamped the berry stamp again in Black Stazon on a scrap piece of Shimmery White cardstock, punched out the part I wanted to highlight with my 1 1/4″ circle punch and layered it on a 1 3/8″ black cardstock circle.

I colored the punched out image with Soft Sky, Purely Pomegranate and Wild Wasabi classic ink and aqua painter, lined it up over the big stamped panel and taped it down.  Then I added a small Wild Wasabi Photo corner to the left bottom corner and secured it with three Pewter brads.

lI added three Jumbo Pewter Eyelets to the left hand side of the card with help of my Crop-a-dile.

The sentiment is from All Holidays.  I stamped a piece of Soft Sky cardstock first with the background stamp from Oh So Lovely. Next I stamped the sentiment in Black Stazon over that and punched it out with my small oval punch.  A small oval Pewter frame was added over it and fastened with brads. Before adding the right brad, I tied a small piece of Purely Pomegranate double stitched ribbon through the hole on the frame.

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I am sorry I was so very quiet the last few days. I was suffering from a severe lack of sleep.

Portland was wonderful! I had such a great time meeting old friends and making new ones. We just didn’t sleep a lot. I think we had 3 hours of sleep every night.

Monday I was dizzy and nauseous, but I got my piled up work done anyway. Yesterday….I just hang around the house and did nothing. I was still feeling a bit dizzy…but not as bad as Monday. Today I am almost back to normal. I already made waffles with whipcream and strawberries for the kids for breakfast (from scratch).

I hope I will get some stamping done today! But to start the day off, let me tell you the winner of last weekend’s sketch challenge. All your cards were amazing! I love this sketch. It’s such an easy one. I like easy! lol

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Random.org picked #47.

That was Mary Jo Albright with this wonderful card.

I love her work. You can see more of it on her blog Beauty Lies Within.

Thank you for everyone that entered the challenge.