I can't begin to imagine all the turmoil and grief that Joyce, our destination this week for MMTPT336 Big Things Come in Small Packages is going through. While I would rather be in work earning money, I was glad to be able to have the extra time to create a special card for her. I chose both options, making an ATC and adding it to a mixed media base.
For the base - I scribbled gelatos on white card and then softened and smudged them with a baby wipe. When it was dry, I stamped the lace stamp, using Smokey Grey stamed off once, so it's quite soft. I added some paint in the corners, and Stickles all round the edges, with more Stickles dropped onto the paint when it was dry.
For the ATC - I retrieved the plate stamp (as a nod to afternoon tea) from a bag of purged items waiting to be free-cycled. After stamping it with the blue, I embossed it with clear EP, and then cut it into small scraps, as if it had fallen and shattered.
I covered my ATC with double-sided adhesive and stuck my "broken china" onto it in a mosaic, and then sprinkled glitters over it and burnished the glitter into all the gaps. To add definition to the edge, I embossed it with blue EP.
I added a little flower made from a scrap of lace, with a gem brad with Stickles on it for the centre, and a flourish cut from a spare scrap of paper. The sentiment seemed suitable - in the rain and dark days that life sometimes throws us, we can believe that the sun will come out again and bring us a rainbow, and it went with the soft hints of colour coming through under the lace.
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 GMT Views: 1442
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Thu, Jan 08, 2015 @ 9:55 AM
Wow, Sabrina, this is a MIXED MEDIA SMORGASBORD!! I never saw so many techniques used on one card before, but boy, it turned out really fabulous and Joyce is going to love trying to figure out all you did on here!! My favorite is the mosaic on the ATC card, followed by a close second - the lace flower!! This is a masterpiece!!!
------------------------------ SUE aka GREENIE - Twisted Sistah Handmade cards because..No one displays an email on their mantle, or saves a FB post in a box of treasures! Nothing is impossible with God!
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Sat, Jan 10, 2015 @ 5:04 AM
Sabrina, this is fabulous! I love the background you created, but the ATC is amazing! I love what you did with the "china", I think if I saw the entire image it would have to look like dishes from my childhood.
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