I didn't think about how hard it would be to ink blend in these small spaces of the bird and branch and flowers. And even Oxide inks soaked in to the paper so much that I could hardly see them. I used Squeezed Lemonade and Walnut stain on the bird. I had to completely do it first and then go back and do the branch. Since I couldn't get the branch close enough to the bird without removing the bird stamp from the Stamparatus. I have to admit I went back after I embossed and added some pastels to bring out the color. I just couldn't see anything but the embossing otherwise. Then I just heated the EP again to bring it above the pastels. I didn't add a greeting, not sure how I will use this but I do like how it turned out .
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Wed, Nov 11, 2020 @ 6:13 PM
Your card is beautiful, Pat. I think it was a masterful stroke to use pastels to enhance your coloring of the bird and flowers. I agree, it was hard to get the OI to really show up. I know I worked on it for a long time! : )