Card Patterns Sketch #14 challenge card
5/13/2009 05:03:00 PMI'm on a roll! Today I made a card for Card Patterns Sketch #14. It took a VERY long time to make and I think that I could have made it differently and easier, but I didn't plan ahead and decided to wing it. Right when I saw this sketch, I knew that I wanted to do a window that opened up. I've been wanting to do this type of card for a while now, but I just hadn't gotten around to it. I liked how it turned out and the colors are very happy and appropriate for spring.
Here is the sketch





I used a lot of different techniques, but of course, since I love embossing so much, I incorporated that into this card. I heat embossed the women's clothes and dry embossed the planter on the front. I made the card outline and windows with SCAL and cut it with Cricut (I might post up the SCUT file that I used for this). I used vellum as the window "glass" and sandwiched it between two indentical pieces of the card outline and windows. I used a flower eyelet to put the ribbon through; the ribbon is used to tie the windows together because it doesn't stay put. I used Prima flowers, stickles, corner punches, and rhinestones. I used foam to create some dimension. Stamp is from My Favorite Things - Meet Me At The Cafe.
How did I emboss the women's clothes, you might ask? I'm not sure if anyone else does this, and I wouldn't be surprised if they did, but what I did was take a paint brush, dabbed it into embossing ink, painted the women's clothes with this clear ink, and heat embossed like I normally would! It's great, but a little frustrating when you want the stamp lines to show up clearly.
Close up of one of the women.
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