Saturday 3 May 2014

birthday girl

Today my offering is quite a straightforward card. I started with a 12x12 cm piece of centura pearl card. Using the seaweed stencil and distress inks I brushed dusty concord, seedless preserve, picked raspberry, tumbled glass and faded jeans onto the matte side of card.


I then stamped the Lavinia rose 3 times with versamark and embossed in black. I masked alternate leaves off to minimize overlapping. Using an embossing folder i embossed just lower end of card and added some black soot to embossed areas to highlight them.


I matted it on black and stuck it to 15x15 cm base card. Finally i added a purple bow to the roses and added some plum pearl pva dots to card.


I hope you like my make, Theresa xx.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Lavinia stamps challenge - birthday girl

20 comments:

  1. What a lovely card Theresa, perfect for the birthday girl! Thanks for entering the Lavinia Stamps Challenge and good luck! Kx (DT member)

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  2. Fabby card and sooooo pretty .. good luck in the challenge Theresa. xx

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  3. Fabulous Design just perfect for our challenge over at Fan-Tastic Tuesday Thank you for joining us,it is much appreciated without you we would have no challenge, I do hope you will join us again for another fab challenge nest week.... Good luck in the draw...
    Hugs
    Suzy B Owner Fan-Tastic Tuesday
    Xx

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    1. thank you Sue. will try and join you as many times as i can xx

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  4. Lovely birthday card! Just right for a lady! Thank you for joining us, good luck! Xx

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  5. Your card is so lovely, you've used so many techniques, you put me to shame. Thank you for sharing it with us at the Lavinia challenge? Julie x

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    1. Thank you Julie. i thought it was a simple card xx

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  6. Very lovely card, the techniques are very effective. Many thanks for joining the Lavinia Stamps challenge and good luck!!! Melissa (DT)

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  7. Lovely card, Theresa. That stencil complimented the rose perfectly. Thank you for your visit and great comment. It is nice to use something like that again. xx

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  8. Lovely card Theresa. I really like the idea of embossing just part of the card. I have used that embossing folder as a background, but not considered only embossing part of the card. x

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    1. yes Sarah, just be careful where you align plates or you will emboss the whole background xx

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  9. Fabulous card hun love it and thanks so much for joining us at Fan-Tastic Tuesday x

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