One of my favorite
challenge blogs, Hand Stamped Sentiments is having a Design Team "Try-Out " and I wanted to create a card
to throw my name “into the ring”!
As most of you who
regularly visit my blog know, I started my blog approximately 1 1/2 years ago and love to participate in weekly challenges! I have been
a Guest Designer on several of my favorite challenge blogs- The Paper Players, Friday
Mash Up, A La Card Monkey, Sunny Challenges and Creations and recently have
been named to the May-August Creative Crew on Splitcoast Stampers, but I would
like to be a regular member of a weekly Design Team :-)
I love the variety of
challenges that Hand Stamped Sentiments provides each week- I have some tough competition, wish me luck! :-)
I decided to
create a Vintage Style card with Distressing (since this style comes very easy
to me) and I had not had a chance to ink up my bird stamp, Young Vermillion yet. I love to watch birds and most likely will
not have an opportunity to see a Vermillion in real life (since it appears as
though their normal habitat is in South America and Southern Mexico) so I
researched online to check their coloring.
This stamp appears
to be a young female Vermillion but I decided to use the colors of a male.
To create this
card:
Stamp the bird
image with Versamark™ ink onto Very Vanilla cardstock, apply Stampin’ Emboss®
Black Embossing Powder and heat with the Heat Tool. Once cooled, color the image with Stampin’
Up! Watercolor Pencils then apply a bit of water with the Aqua Painter.
Use the Big Shot™
with the Designer Oval Frame Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder to create
the embossed frame around the bird image.
Stamp the background stamp from French Foliage using Crumb Cake ink,
tear around the edges and distress by hand.
Apply Crumb Cake ink with a Sponge Dauber to “antique”.
Ink the smooth
interior of the Vintage Textured Impressions™Embossing Folder with Soft Suede
Classic Ink and emboss a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock. Also emboss a piece of Everyday Enchantment
DSP and lightly sand with the Sanding Block.
Layer the pieces,
add the Victoria Lace Trim, add the 5/8” Early Espresso Satin Ribbon bow,
sentiment and pearls to finish off the card.
Stamp Sets: Young
Vermillion, Blessings from Heaven, French Foliage
Ink: Versamark™,
Basic Black, Crumb Cake
Paper: Very
Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Everyday Enchantment DSP
Accessories:
Big Shot™, Vintage Wallpaper and Designer Oval Frame Textured Impressions™
Embossing Folders, Watercolor Pencils, Aqua Painter, XL Oval Punch, Pearls, 5/8”
Early Espresso Satin Ribbon (retired), Sponge Dauber, Sanding Block, Victoria
Lace Trim, Distressing Tool
Thanks again for
stopping by! I hope you like this card –
I had a great time creating it!