I need to begin this post by saying that this card is so much more lively and fun than it appears here! We have had so many gloomy days, and my little photo area downstairs simply can’t capture colors accurately. But there was a brief period of sunlight yesterday, and I braved the cold back porch to take a picture of this anniversary card for my husband’s daughter and her husband.
This card started as a sample for my team meeting earlier in the week, when we ran through several techniques using the Artistic Mix Decorative Masks. This particular sample was the result of tinting the matte Embossing Paste and scraping it through one of the masks. The effect is lots of texture and dimension — very cool IRL! I have found it best to use Thick Basic White Cardstock with the tinted paste, as it is able to handle the dampness.
You cannot tell it here, but the color of the Embossing Paste is a very close match to Highland Heather, not Orchid Oasis, which was the ink refill that I used to tint it. That’s the fun of being in a group and experimenting with various ideas and products; even if something did not end up as planned, it was only paper and a bit of time. It was all good!
I didn’t have time to complete this card before the team gathering, so it was fun to add the flowers and leaves later. I stamped each flower and set of leaves with the darker/smaller image in “full strength” ink, then stamped off for the larger image layered over the first. Although there are dies to cut out these images, the fussy cutting is not difficult.
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