fresh & fun

I started my sample for today’s sketch by stamping the angel image from Holy Triptych in Chocolate Chip Craft ink and embossing it with Clear Embossing powder. It was cut and embossed with Circle Nestabilities. I was going for a stained glass look, so I used my Copic Markers to color it in and get a vibrant look. I used B00 for the outside, W00 and W02 for the wings, E00 and E02 for the skin, YR24 and YR31, R27 and R29 for the dress and E79 for the border. I added Versamark over the entire circle and clear embossed it several times. Then I gently bent the cardstock to create cracks in my embossed layer.

My card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Chocolate Chip folded in half. The next layer is a 3 15/16″ square of Sahara sand, topped with a 3 3/4″ sanded and paper pierced piece of Holiday Lounge Designer Paper. The Chocolate Chip scallop as well as the Whisper White Circle were both cut with Circle Nestabilities. The Scallop Circle was taped over the Designer paper and a 1 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ strip of Holiday Lounge DP  was taped over it. The strip had been sanded, then layered on a 3 3/4″ strip of Sahara Sand cardstock that had been punched with the Eyelet Border Punch. White Organza Ribbon was tied around it. The angel circle was adhered over the Whisper White circle and taped to the card front with dimensionals.

For the sentiment I stamped the ornamental stamp from Framed with Love in second generation Sahara Sand on Whisper White and cut it out with my Large Oval Punch. Next I inked up only the word Peace from one of the greetings from the set Four the Holidays (Mini catalog) with Taken with Teal and stamped it in the center of my oval. The white oval was taped to a Chocolate Chip scallop oval that had been punched out with the Scallop Oval Punch. I added a paper pierced row under the sentiment.  To finish off the card front I added two medium size half pearls from the Pretties Kit on the top right. One of the Felt Snowflakes from last year’s mini catalog was adhered with a dimensional next to my angel and topped with another half pearl.  If I would recreate this card, I would probably emboss the sentiment to make it pop more. Some things you see only when the card is almost done….and since I stamped it this morning (flaked last night and watched Diaries of a Vampire instead! I will have to get me those books!)

Before adding the oval greeting, I had played around with a frame from Framed with Love. I had stamped it with Chocolate Chip Craft ink and embossed with Clear embossing powder twice. Once I cut it out all the way, once, only the center. In the center I stamped the sentiment and ornamental stamp just like on the greeting in the front.  Except for here, I added colored in the inside of the oval with a Versamarker and clear embossed that oval as well. Unfortunately this frame was too big for the front. I thought though…that it might work for the inside of my card.

The inside layer for my card is a 3 15/16″ square of Sahara Sand Cardstock. I added another 1 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ strip of Holiday Lounge Designer paper over it with a Eyelet Border Punched piece of Taken with Teal.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Austin is off today, so I think I might go and play some tennis with him. I haven’t worked out as much as I should the last two weeks.

Hugs and smiles