I cut a panel of bristol paper to 3-3/4x5". After lining the vase stamp up in my MISTI, I stamped it with Kiddie Pool ink, dried it with my heat tool, and then added "water" with a pale blue marker. I blended that color out with a damp paintbrush. I put the panel back in my MISTI & positioned the agapanthus stamp. I masked off the bottom of the vase with a piece of yellow Frog tape, and "inked" up the flower stem with a green Tombow marker. I stamped that, and repeated to get a better impression. I cleaned off the stem, and added color to the flower portion with a purple marker. After I stamped that twice, I used my paintbrush to blend the color in the center of the flower out just a bit, to help fill in the area.
I die cut a tag from a scrap of bristol paper with the smallest tag die. I used my purple marker & damp paintbrush to do kind of an ombre on the tag. I dried that with my heat tool, and stamped the "hello" from "Versatile Vases" with Morning Mist ink. I pierced a hole through the end of the tag, and used some thin jute twine to tie a bow through the hole. I pierced 2 more holes on either side of the vase, & threaded twine through them, taping the ends to the back of the panel. I used a thin foam dot at the end of the tag, and double-sided tape for the rest, and adhered it in place. The foam dot gives it just a bit of lift, for added depth & dimension.
I matted the panel with lavender cardstock, leaving a 1/8" border. I adhered that to a piece of green cardstock, and trimmed that to a 1/16" border on all 4 sides. Finally, I mounted the card front to a white A2-size card base.
Date: Thursday, April 2, 2020 GMT Views: 478
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Registered: February 22, 2007 Location: L’etoile du Nord Posts: 6389
Thu, Apr 02, 2020 @ 2:24 PM
Very pretty, love the simplicity of your card!
------------------------------ -----Liz "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, ..." ~~1 Thess. 4:11 (NIV)
Registered: May 25, 2006 Location: So. Oregon Posts: 121895
Thu, Apr 02, 2020 @ 4:50 PM
I got that vase set in the mail recently to do something just something with it and I love what you did with it the colors on this are beautiful Andrea
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