Layered Medaillon
I woke up and did today’s Inspiration challenge right away.
The inspiration piece was a painted Gourd (okay…never even heard THAT word before. Is the word for this particular shaped vase?).
I loved the colors and shapes it had. I wrote down medaillon, scallops and for a color combo: Basic black, Ruby Red, Creamy Caramel/More Mustard and a tad of gray (under the medaillon)
I thought of Baroque Motifs right away when I looked at the center piece. But when I pulled the set out, the Medaillon piece didn’t quite fit.
So I stamped it three times in Ruby Red on Caramel Shimmery Paper. Remember the trip to the Paper Zone I took in Portland. Well…we didn’t have much time, but I did buy Caramel, Ivory and White Shimmery Paper. Along with a cool book and a tool kit from Making Memories.
Anway….after I cut all three images out leaving only the four large leaves standing. I layered them on top of each other with dimensionals, punched a hole with my Crop-a-dile and added a Pewter Jumbo Eyelet with a Fire Circle Rhinestone center.
I taped the medaillon on Basic Gray cardstock and outlined the edges.
Okay…so sometimes when I design stuff I don’t think things through. After I had done all this, the caramel leaves looked to pale. I sponged them with More Mustard to make them look more vibrant.
I cut a black circle with my Coluzzle, paper pierced the edges and taped my center piece right in the middle.
My card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Basic Black cardstock folded in half.
I corner rounded the edges on the right hand side.
I did the same with my next layer, a 4″ Ruby Red square.
I sponged the entire square and stamped the swirl image from Baroque Motifs over it. I added Cherish in Black Stazon on the bottom right corner.
After I did all that I thought about how to finish the card off. The layout for this weekend’s sketch challenge looked perfect with it.
For the horizontal part I cut a piece of Caramel shimmery paper to 2″ x 3″. I sponged it with More Mustard, added scallops with the corner rounder and stamped the Linen background over it.
This was layered on a 2″ x 3″ piece of Black cardstock. Black brads were added in the center of the first four scallops and Gray Taffeta ribbon was tied around the cardstock layers. I adhered the circle and the horizontal stip with dimensionals.
