Birthday Wishes...Floral spray 7x5in card - 365 day challenge

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Hi Craft addicts!     

Today's latest handmade card for my 365 day challenge is one using stamps and embossing powder.

  • I first of all dusted a panel of white stamping card with an anti-static pad and then added Versamark to the Floral spray stamp from Ink Lily and rather than using a stamping platform, I placed it directly on to my desk and inked it and then placed the card on top of it, gently rubbing it all over so the ink was transferred.
  • I then added some white embossing powder (so many Companies are now producing their own version but I have Cosmic Shimmer and Thirsty Brush amongst others).
  • I heat set it, moving my heat gun over all of the image until I saw it had all melted.
  • I decided to play with my Ink Lily Glimmer pens and so used the Summer collection to colour over the embossed image, spritzing them with water and used kitchen roll to dry them off - I like the effect as it gives a very subtle sparkle to the card though you can't see it well in the photo.
  • I rounded the corners of the panel, and cut two pieces of green card, the darker one slightly larger than the lighter and also rounded the corners of them too and stuck them together.
  • I edged the flower panel with a black alcohol marker and attached it to the background with some PVA glue.
  • I then added the whole thing to the front of a 7x5in white card (it was a landscape format card but I used it as a top fold card so the shortest edge is at the top).
  • I used Crafter's Companion Spectrum Noir Glossy Highlights to the flowers and then stamped the Birthday Wishes sentiment (from Crafter's Companion's file of sentiments) on to some white card with Gina K's Obsidian Black ink, fussy cut around it and added it to some more of the green card and placed it at the bottom of the card using foam pads.

So if you think this sounds interesting then why not:-


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