Hi Friends!
Woohoo! We are
celebrating the 100th challenge at The Card Concept with a gorgeous
inspiration photo and a special surprise! To help us celebrate, all of our designers
invited a special guest designer so we have 24 different cards to inspire you!!
I love this beautiful
inspiration photo that Lesley found and was inspired by the colors, the roses
as well as the gold to create a Shabby Chic/Mixed Media card! These colors
worked perfect for my niece’s wedding this past weekend (her colors were
burgundy, light pink, white/ivory and gold).
I am also
participating with the Word Art Wednesday #356-#357 “Anything Goes” Challenge.
Just a reminder that
the Card Concept is a bi-weekly challenge that has an inspiration photo along
with a suggestion of design styles that you can choose from to create your
card- Clean and Simple, Clean and Graphic, Clean and Layered, Shabby Chic,
Freestyle Collage, Classy and Elegant and Mixed Media (or you can combine
several styles for your own style).
If you have not had a
chance to visit us at The Card Concept or the Word Art Wednesday site yet, I
hope you will find time to do so- gorgeous inspiration from all!
To
create this card:
1).
Apply clear gesso to a 5 ½” square piece of white cardstock, use a heat tool if
necessary to speed up the drying process.
2).
Once the panel has dried, use Tim Holtz® Distress Oxide Inks, Alcohol Inks
along with acrylic paint until you achieve the color that you desire (see
colors used below). Add TH Picket Fence
Distress Stain to tone down the color in areas and add a bit of crackle texture
paste with a honeycomb stencil.
3).
Once the crackle paste has dried, stamp the background with the retired En
Francais background stamp (SU!) using Staz-On™ Stone Gray ink, add a bit of
distressing with the small splatter stamp from Timeless Textures (SU!) and Stone
Gray ink, distress the edges of the panel and mount onto a 5 ½” square white
card base.
4).
Create the rolled flowers using MFT Mini Royal and Royal Rose Dies from Cherry
Cobbler, Whisper White and Pretty in Pink cardstock. Use a crimper tool to soften the paper before
rolling the flowers (I use hot glue to adhere the base). Die cut the leaves from Wild Wasabi cardstock
using ODBD Bitty Blossoms Dies and the scrolls from gold foil using ODBD Fancy
Foliage Dies.
5).
De-static a piece of white cardstock with an embossing powder tool, stamp the
sentiment from Occasional Quotes (retired SU! hostess set) with Versamark™ Ink, apply gold embossing
powder and heat set with a heat tool. Once
the embossing has cooled, die cut with an ornate rectangle die and add a bit of
gold mousse over the edges.
6).
Mount the sentiment onto the card front using dimensional foam, Add the rolled roses along with the leaves and
scrolls around the sentiment (I used hot glue to adhere the floral elements).
7).
Add a few pearls to the corner of the sentiment and upper left corner of the
card. Use a clear glitter pen to add
shimmer to the roses to finish off the card.
Stamp Sets: Occasional Quotes, En Francais
(both retired Stampin’ Up!), Timeless Textures (current SU!)
Ink/Mediums:
Versamark™, Staz-On™ Stone Gray, TH
Distress Oxide- Antique Linen, Picket Fence, Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Vintage
Photo; Adirondack™ Alcohol Inks- Cranberry and Gold Mixatives™, Ken Oliver™
Metallic Rose Liquid Metals, Liquidtex™ Clear Gesso, Wendy Vecchi™ Crackled
Texture Paste, Nuvo™ Indian Gold Embellishment Mousse, Spectrum Noir™ Glitter
Pen
Cardstock/Paper:
Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Pretty in Pink, Wild Wasabi, Gold Foil (all SU!),
misc. HD white cardstock from my stash (for base and panel)
Tools/Accessories: Big Shot™, MFT Royal and Mini Royal Rose Dies;
Our Daily Bread Dies- Fancy Foliage, Bitty Blossoms; Embossing Buddy®, Gold Embossing Powder,
Heat Tool, Distressing Tool, Crafters Workshop Punchinella 6x6 Stencil, Palette
Knife
Thanks
again for taking the time to visit! I hope you will find the time to check out all of the wonderful cards at The Card Concept and if you have a chance, create a card based on our {Elegant Fall} photo- we would love to see your interpretation!!
Wow! This is gorgeous! Love all of the textures and colors!
ReplyDeleteOH! WOW! This is another Gearinger Gorgeous creation! Julie this is so very pretty. The texture is an amazing background for your floral/sentiment display! Big Hugs! Hope all is well with you and yours!
ReplyDeleteThis is so beautiful, Julie! I'm not sure what I love more - the beautiful dimensional flowers or that gorgeous distressed background! It has all come together so well for a beautiful look!
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