Hi Guys!
It's Sunday again and this week I've got a
birthday card to share. In the next two weeks I have two 80th b-day
parties to attend so I wanted special cards. I chose a dark purple card
stock as the background and a purple polkadotted mat. I was surprised
when I reviewed my blog to find another card with the same papers. I
guess I really like the combination!
This time,
however, I used a couple of different techniques: one being I colored my
gems with a "La Plume" pen. I had heard that you could use a sharpie
to color gems and pearls but hadn't tried it yet. The pen I used, the
ink didn't dry right away so I wasn't sure if it took time or "what cha
see is what cha get" so I tried to wipe off the color. The result was
that not all the ink came off and what was left was a very watery color
of lavender as opposed to the dark purple I had used. However, I was
thrilled because it was exactly what I wanted. So now I'm not touching
it in case it needs drying time!
The second new
technique I used was to make the bow with a bow-maker tool. I think the
bow came out kinda cool with a double loop.
Another thing I did was to use removable tape to adhere the white scolloped mat to a piece of regular copy paper to run it thru the printer. First I printed the sentiment using the computer's center feature. Then I put the tape on the paper and centered the mat over the words by holding both up to the light. The I ran it thru the computer again. I could have made the print a little bigger, but I didn't dislike the way this came out either.
So no more
talk. Here's the supply list:
Hope you enjoy and are inspired!
Blessings & Hugs
Linda :)
- Purple card stock from a super value pak
- Purple polkadot stock from Recollections - Pastel
- Scraps in my bucket: white for the middle of the page; run thru the cuttlebug swiss dot; cut with a scolloped punch (no brand on it)
- 2 mats: scraps cut with Elegant Edges page 47 the purple I used the shift and cut at 3 3/4 inches; for the white, I used no shift and cut at 3 1/2 inces
- Darcie self-stick gems
Hope you enjoy and are inspired!
Blessings & Hugs
Linda :)