This card fulfills lots of challenges! First, it's my entry for this week's Color Challenge. Mary is our hostess this week, and she has challenged us to use at least three of the following colors: Basic Gray, Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, and Sahara Sand. Our dessert option was to use spots, dots or stripes on our card. Check and check!
I learned some stuff today. If you stamp on vellum, the ink stays wet. If you wait a while and then come back, the ink is still wet. If you touch it and smear it, when you wipe it with a baby wipe, the surface of the vellum pills up. If you heat it with a heat gun, that sort-of dries the ink, and also ripples the vellum. Then, if you start over (ask me how I know!), and try hitting the stamped area with clear embossing powder, yes, that works the best, but then there's that rippling when you heat set the embossing powder. I'm planning to put this card under all seven volumes of Harry Potter tonight to see if his magic and the weight of his books flattens my vellum out.
I made the striped paper from the MFT Plaid Background Builder, using from Barbara Anders. My attempt needs work! I added a Lost Lagoon mat and ribbon.
The layer under the vellum is Sahara Sand, which I stamped randomly with the same ink and the Gorgeous Grunge speckle stamp.
This card is also for CAS315, to use ribbon on your card, CAS324, to make a Thank You card; and WT531, May Flowers.
Thanks for stopping by. Please play along in this week's color challenge, and you could be chosen to be a guest designer!
Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Creative Crew SU Design Team Alumni
Registered: January 7, 2007 Location: Southern California Posts: 42868
Thu, May 21, 2015 @ 5:11 PM
Oh my gosh. Your colorful description about the vellum, especially the part about the Harry Potter books, cracked me up! In the end I loved the card with the rich colors of the day. Gorgeous.
------------------------------ Kathy Stamp n Sip with me
Registered: May 31, 2009 Location: East Tennessee enjoying the mountain views Posts: 32997
Mon, May 25, 2015 @ 9:14 AM
Wonderful card Barbara, SO.... the question is, Did the vellum flatten out? I tend to stay away from vellum if I can, it scares me.... Now I know why, lol