Lisa's (Shoe Girl) WTUI Challenge, WT646, for this week is, "Let's Warm It Up". The heat that a lot of the US is experiencing is the impetus for Lisa's challenge. Therefore, she wanted to see "hot" cards.
The beautiful Bird of Paradise flower came to mind for the challenge as it requires a good amount of sunlight (i.e., hot). Therefore, the ODBD new Bird of Paradise stamp and matching die were used for my card.
My card has no layers; it's a card base that I die cut a border at an angle along the card front. Then I stamped and colored the Birds of Paradise and sponged various inks onto the card front and inside of the card to create a landscape scene. Then I stamped, colored, and die cut two Birds of Paradise and attached them to the front with double-sided foam tape.
P.S. For clarity, the card truly has no layers. It started as an 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" piece of WHITE card stock that I folded in half (i.e., A2 card size.) to determine the center. I unfolded the card, laid the HC die at an angle across the front of the card, and run it through my die-cutting machine to create the border on the card front. The border is not a separate piece that was attached to the front.
Date: Friday, July 28, 2017 GMT Views: 965
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Tue, Aug 08, 2017 @ 12:50 PM
This is so pretty. I love how you seamlessly integrated the inside of the card with the card front. That die cut on the card front is so showy and the multi-dimensional bird of paradise flowers are awesome!
Omg!! I was making it a point to give love to those that took their time for my DTGD17 cards leaving loving and then I got in your gallery I should know better because all you do is create gorgeousness to perfection . And being Hawaiian there was no way this beauty was going to not catch my eyes it did however catch my tongue !, left me stunned and speechless but I had to find the words to tell you how gorgeous this is and how much I appreciate you exposing a thing of precious beauty from my heritage , culture and home. So Aloha and Mahalo much sis Bev!!