The
hot and humid weather is creeping back up. I have no interest in being outside
in that humidity so it was into the sewing room for me and I finished another
quilt today. I just had to put the binding on and now on to the next quilt!
I
like to quilt during the day and make cards or do scrapbooking at night. Here’s
a card that I made last week.
As
I was finishing up another card I found this pretty piece of wine cardstock and
decided right then and there to use it in a card instead of filing it back into
the stash. The top of the card is a very light yellowish-green colour which is
the complementary colour for wine. Before taping them together though I ran the
wine cardstock through an embossing folder. The embossed flowers and leaves did
not show up that well so I took a white ink pad and just very gently went over
the top of them to just catch the embossed areas and not the rest of it. Now it
pops!
I liked the top paper but I wanted to bring
some wine colour into it so I used an old retired Stampin’ Up stamp of tiny
hearts and dots and stamped them around the piece. A gold peel-off line covers
the seam where I joined the two pieces; and gold peel-offs were used for the
sentiment and fancy scroll under the sentiment.
It
needed something else. Butterflies are always nice so I found some more wine
cardstock and die cut the butterflies with Memory Box dies. I left one open but
the one on the right has a solid butterfly underneath with the lacy one on top…..I
just like things to be different! When I laid the card top on the card base I
didn’t like the white edge….too stark. So, an easy solution was to simply
sponge a light bit of wine ink around the edge and then stamp a few more hearts
and dots.
I know most card makers start out with a sketch or definite plan but
I just like to wing it and create as I go. Don’t forget you are more than
welcome to save any cards to your Pinterest account for future reference.
Simply place the curser over the picture until the Pinterest sign shows up and
enter. This will take you to your Pinterest account.
That’s all for a hot and humid Tuesday,
Cheers
Violet
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