Congrats to Cynthia! Wonderful gallery! I chose This Card to case. I kept the layout, but turned it and used a slightly different die, different colors and different images.
The images are from Our Daily Bread designs and after sponging on the colors of a Kpad, I stamped the image and bleached out the ship. The yellow netting was saved from a bag of lemons. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.
For my card, I sponged on the rainbow of blues from a couple of Kaliedacolor ink pads, then stamped the image in permanent black ink. Since the Kpads are dye ink, they are highly bleachable. I used a tiny acrylic paintbrush to paint the bleach onto the ship and compass rose. After it dried, I added a little yellow to the flags. You have to wait until it's completely dry before adding color w/ water based markers, or else it will just continue to bleach. You can help it along w/ a heat tool, but back away a little. The single compass rose was stamped on the vertical white strip and some netting from a bag of lemons was stretched over it (it looked like fish net to me). I used a circle punch for the little blue circles under the eyelets. The greeting (from Smooth Sailing set) was die cut, but not embossed, using the Spellbinders nested pennant set. I cut to the half way point, then turned the die around and cut the flag point again on the opposite end. The edge came about because I bent one corner of my 5.50 x 4.25 card and it looked funny. So I took one of the larger Labels 8 and cut the card edge and added some die cut strips of left over background.
Thanks so much for looking! Enjoy your week, Cynthia! Close ups and details are on my blog: The Write Stuff.
Date: Saturday, July 14, 2012 GMT Views: 1552
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