Getting Big

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Now:

About a year and a half ago I got the chance to go to one of Michelle Zindorf's workshops and I jumped at the chance. Boy am I glad I did. Her brayering technique is unique and that day I felt like I was breaking all the rules about brayering that I had learned from years of experience and other people's instruction. Since then I have made many cards with this technique and they have all turned out to be stunning little art projects. Today I needed a bigger gift. My SIL and I talked about this a year ago and she wants something to hang on her wall and had told me she likes blue and flowers so this has been rattling around in my brain for all that time. I tried it on a full sheet of beautiful Whisper White card stock and it turned out great. I brayered Bashful Blue, then Marina Mist then Pacific Point to the top. For the green I used Pear Pizzaz and Wild Wasabi (one of my favorites of all time) then sponged with WW. I used a combination of WW and Garden Green for the stamping. The white flowers from Fifth Ave Floral were stamped in Basic Black and slightly colored with Bashful Blue and Daffodil Delight then cut out. I free handed some leaves out of Garden Green. Then I took the "branch" from Thoughts and Prayers and did some coloring on the rubber. I used Early Espresso, Always Artichoke and Riding Hood Red. I did that five times to give the illusion that there is a tree just out of sight and the branches are overhanging into the picture. I think it worked.

I am going to her house next week and get to give this to her in person. That doesn't happen to me very often because I have family all over the country. Thank goodness for the U.S. Postal service. But I'm very excited to give this to her. I hope she likes it.

Here it is all framed and ready. Let me know what you think too

Thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place.

Supplies

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Just Believe, Thoughts and Prayers

Paper: Whisper White Card Stock

Ink: Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Pacific Point, Pear Pizzaz, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, Always Artichoke, Riding Hood Red, Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight

Tools: Paper Snips, Brayer, sponges

Frame: $3 Made is USA. Email me and I'll tell you where I got it. It measures 8 1/2" x 11"

Thoughts and Prayers in Plum

Hi again. I love this card today and I hope you do too. This is a card a basically cased from Julie Buhler. She always has something special cooked up at her house.

• The base of this card is perfect plum.
  
• I made my own patterned paper for the next layer. I stamped the vanilla cs 5 1/4" x 4" with the script BG in perfect plum.
  
• Then I stamped over that with the canvas BG in mellow moss.
• The edges were sponged with close to cocoa.
  
• I added the layer perfect plum on the left, 1 1/2" x 3 1/2", that had also been sponged with cocoa.
• I used a strip of pale plum,5 1/4" x 1 1/4", that was sponged and faux stitched with a cocoa marker.
  
• I tied the moss ribbon around that panel and added it to the card.
• The image (Thoughts and Prayers) inked up with always artichoke, pale plum, and perfect plum markers. It was stamped on vanilla, 3 1/2" x 2 1/2", and sponged with cocoa.
  
• It was matted on perfect plum, 3 3/4" x 2 3/4", then mellow moss cs, 4" x 3".
  
• I punched perfect plum cs with the scallop oval punch
• The sentiment was stamped on pale plum with perfect plum ink, and punched with the large oval and sponged it with cocoa then adhered to the scallop oval.
  
• Then it was added to the image panel.

I made one of each of the sentiments but this one was then added to the card with dimensionals. Also the bow was tied then added.

Unfortunately I sent the Praying for You one out yesterday and I am sending the Sharing In Your Sorrow one out today. But I do hope in the struggles that my friends are facing they can have a bright spot in their day knowing that someone is thinking about them and that they get a little lift from these cards.

Thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place.

Supplies:
Stamp Set: Thoughts and Prayers 113252
Paper:Mellow Moss cs 102898, Pale Plum 101658, Perfect Plum cs 101889,
Very Vanilla cs 101650
Tools: Paper Cutter 104152, Mat Pack 105826, Paper-Piercing Tool 116631, Stamping Sponges 101610, Scallop Oval Punch 114889, Large Oval Punch 107305
Ink: Stampin' Write Markers; Always Artichoke 105113, Chocolate Chip 100071, Perfect Plum 100035 Ink Pads; Mellow Moss 102774, Perfect Plum 101437, Close To Cocoa 103139
Embellishments: Stampin' Dimensionals 104430, Ribbon