Hi!
Welcome to this week's Artful Stampers Blog Hop and welcome from Tamsin’s blog.
Here are the essentials:
- This card was pulled together from scraps.....seriously...it was!
- The base is Kraft and then theres a layer of Very Vanilla card stock stamped with Hardwood in Crumb Cake and then sponged and ‘distressed’ with Gorgeous Grunge. I had this layer in my stash as it didn’t make the cut for another card.
- The bokeh layer was done so long ago that I can’t remember the colours....but any tones in yellow, orange, pink and green would work if you wanted to reproduce this.
- You can stamp on vellum and it comes out beautifully soft. I chose vellum to let the bokeh layer through. I stamped a sentiment from Botanicals for You in Crumb Cake.
- The Pool Party butterfly framelit was also an off-cut. You may also notice that the frame-lit has had surgical enhancement. The two pointy bits at the bottom were too low for my card, so I creatively snipped them off and made sure that the edge had a curve like the rest of the butterfly.
- A vellum butterfly and a metal-rimmed pearl are the perfect finishing embellishment.
Here is our sketch for this week:
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Stamp - Botanicals For You, Hardwood, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink - Crumb Cake + assorted inks for bokeh layer
Cardstock - Kraft, Watercolour, Very Vanilla, Vellum, Pool Party
Tools - Stampin’ Trimmer, SNAIL, Aquapainter, Glue Dots, Elegant Butterfly Punch, Big Shot, Bold Butterfly Framelit Die
Accessories - Metal Rimmed Pearl
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Beautiful as usual Alison :)
ReplyDeletegorgeous background beautiful
ReplyDeleteI love your bokeh effect, its so pretty! Must try it out someday lol!
ReplyDeleteOh just fantastic! I've been meaning to try this Bokeh for a while now :)
ReplyDeleteI great use of 'scraps'. A very pretty card.
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful soft bokeh layer on the woodgrain. I love it.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite butterfly - and I love the addition of the vellum butterfly and the pearl.
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