fresh & fun

Last Sunday Featured Stamper was BeckyTE. She has an amazing gallery. Her coloring is jaw dropping gorgeous!!! I picked this card to case. It worked perfect for last weeks Weekend challenge as well.

I started out by stamping the bird from Touch of Nature in Black StazOn on  a 2 3/4″ x 3 1/4″ piece of watercolor paper.

I colored it in wiht More Mustard, Old Olive, Close to Cocoa and Really Rust classic ink and Aqua Painter.

Next I covered the entire image with my Versamarker and embossed the image with clear embossing powder. The swirl from Baroque Motifs was stamped in Blue Bayou . Then I first brayered Soft Sky over the entire image, then sponged the piece with Blue Bayou. I sponged a little More Mustard ink in the center and added more Blue Bayou. I added highlights with a white gel pen and distressed the edges with the Cutter Kit.

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of sponged Old Olive cardstock folded in half. It is layered with a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of sponged Really Rust cardstock followed by a 3 3/4″ x 5″ piece of Fall Flower Designer paper. I distressed the edges and sponged it first with Soft Sky, then with Blue Bayou. Then I stamped Faux stitched lines with my Argyle stamp from All in a Row. Did you know that this set is retiring in Australia!!! I hope it won’t do the same here in July! I would be really sad about that. I also paper pierced the edges of the Designer paper and added a 1/4″ sponged Blue Bayou circle in each corner. The circles were topped off with white brads.

I inked up the leaves from Touch of Nature in Old Olive and stamped them in second generation on a 1 1/4″ circle of watercolor paper. The edges were sponged with Old Olive. Then it was layered on a sponged 1 3/8″ really Rust circle and finally on a sponged Old Olive scallop circle. Kind from Baroque Motifs was stamped in the center of the circle and the edges of that circle were paper pierced. Finally I added a Aged Copper Hardware piece to the top left of the scallop circle to tie Kraft Taffeta ribbon on it.