G&R Anniversary

My DH asked me to make a card for his cousin’s 50^th anniversary. I don’t know his cousin very well, so I let him pick out what he wanted. His sense of humor is that sympathy cards should be sent for anniversaries. I brought down my notebook with a copy of all of my stamps in it for him to go through, of course that didn’t take long, he didn’t even go through the whole book. He spotted a couple of sentiments he liked, picked out a couple images and gave up. This is what I came up with from those choices.

For the front of the card he picked the sentiment from the SU set Elegant Greetings, so I stamped it in versamark and used detail gold ep, cut and embossed with a nestie circle, then ran a gold ink pen around the inside before removing the die. For the next layer, I used a piece of my hoarded gold paper and cut a nestie scalloped circle, then paper pierced each scallop. For the next layer I cut a strip of the gold and covered it with a piece of lace. The white background was run through the Cuttlebug with the Textile ef, it was then layered on another piece of gold and placed on a white card base.

This is the inside for his sense of humor. He picked out a sentiment from the SU set It’s Your Birthday and the old couple that came as an unmounted set of stamps called Age Humor Plate from The Stampin Place. Since the sentiment (on left) was too big to have it and the old couple on one side I cut a square and used a MS punch around the page set, stamped the sentiment with onyx black versafine and sponged the edges with antique linen distress ink, and placed on the left of the inside. On the right side I stamped the old couple on white, colored with SU markers, prismacolored pencils & goo gone. Stamped Happy Anniversary and With Sympathy from the SU set Teeny Tiny Wishes with versamark on gold paper and embossed with detail white ep, then punched out with a SU word window punch. The 50 was punched with a number punch set by Amada. Years is an alphabet set by MS Sans Serif, stamped with versamark and embossed with detail gold ep. The white piece was then layered onto another gold piece and place on the inside right of the card.

I was hoping for a very elegant look on the front, instead it’s rather blah looking, Now when I look at it, some black paper should have been layered in there also to make it stand out. At least the inside isn’t so blah.

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Lace Hello

This card is for this week’s sketch challenge at CPS. I thought I had a good idea that turned into a bad idea, maybe that's what I get for thinking :)

For this card I chose two shadowed images the bear and moose from the Stampin Place. The sentiment is from a SU set Fundamental Phrases. All three were stamped on black cardstock with versamark and embossed with detail white ep, then punched out. Next I was going to punch another larger square for the layer behind the image squares, but I happened to have a scrap strip of black just laying there and liked that look, which I later changed to red. The good idea/bad idea was the lace. Lace isn’t something I have bought a lot of, and was thinking it would look nice as a backer, but didn’t really want it to be the color it was, so I was sitting there thinking…..if you can change the color of ribbon by running it across your ink pad…….why couldn’t you do lace the same way??? Well, let me tell you, this particular piece of lace was not that easy! I tried running it across the ink pad, I tried brayering the color on it, my fingers were getting blacker than the lace. I could not seem to get the ink to color the whole thing. I should have done it with stazon jet black, I have a re-inker for that, but noooo I was trying it with onxy black versafine. I started this project last night, and figured to let the lace sit all night to dry…….didn’t happen. Today when I went back to work on it, originally I had another Shadowed image of trees from the Stampin Place, in the middle but decided today the middle should be a sentiment. So thinking the lace was dry, I was throwing the stuff around changing things and found out that the lace was not dry. I had more black ink on my fingers and it was coming off on the red & black checked dp, luckily the most came off where it would be covered by the lace, but if you look closely you will see some spatter looking on the left side edge and above the bear.  The red & black checked dp is from my scrap pile, I chose it because it just looks like something to go with bear & moose, behind the dp is a black layer and the base card is red. Now I’m ready to put the card altogether. I placed some tape on the dp where I wanted the lace to be………..guess what? The lace would not stick, I tried a couple different types….no go. So I used two black mini brads in the end of the red strip to help hold it in place. Then I put all the rest of the card together, and distressed the edges of the red base card. The next step was to take pictures, I did this, then set down to write my description, I looked over at the card and realized I had put the lace on backwards, it’s a good thing the tape wasn’t holding that good, I took it apart and turned the lace over, then retook the pictures.

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