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Friday, 20 May 2011

White Rabbit Syndrome

       I'm late, I'm late, just  squeezing in at the last minute this week with my Less is More entry. The challenge this time is for a one layer card using either dry or heat embossing. I began by stamping this Elusive Images stamp with Olympian Green Versafine and embossing it with clear EP.I stamped it again on spare paper and cut it out to to make a stencil  which I used to sponge colour on to the flowers through. I used DIs in Scattered Straw, Tattered Rose and Bundled Sage. Then I stamped the Infinite Beauty quote, a wood mounted Impression Obsession stamp in the Versafine ink and embossed it with the clear EP again.I thought it looked a bit stark so I added a few EI tiny butterflies in the Distress colours I'd used on the main image.It was still a little bit flat looking so I dug out an embossing stencil that I had years ago ( before the days of Cuttlebugs etc ) and hand embossed a circle around the stamped image. I was quite surprised to see how much differnce it made. I should have done a before and after photo but I didn't think of it at the time.

7 comments:

  1. Just lovely Jean... what a lovely card... just in time too!
    Thanks so much.
    Chrissie
    Lady LIM
    "Less is More"

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  2. A lovely card Jean. Such a pretty stamp too. Well done! Kate x

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  3. Lovely card Jean an aperture is a good way to give a dimension to a difficult one layer
    Thank you
    Diva LIM mandi
    Less is More

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  4. What a pretty card! LOve it!

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  5. Beautiful card, just love the embossing on the green background. Looks so striking through the aperture :)
    Jenny x

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  6. A lovely card, very pretty.

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