a recent card

Hello again

Three posts in one day - that has to be a record!   😉

This time I have photos of the card I made for our daughter-in-law Elayne for her birthday earlier this month.

I actually made it at the Honey Doo workshop I attended a little earlier this month.  I made 2 cards that day & as soon as I saw the styles I knew whom I wanted them for. 

The main design is stamped on white card with a pale grey ink & coloured in with mica powders used as a paint.  An overlay of parchment / vellum is placed in position & the images over stamped in clear ink & heat embossed with a very very white EP. This was then layered onto silver glitter card, then onto the base white card.

This is the image with the parchment / vellum cover lifted showing the colours.

The one image was then stamped again on the insert, & the greeting, in the same pale grey ink.

A cautionary tip about the insert should you think of doing something like this.  The insert paper was pearlised & the ink, although it was a dye ink, took a long time to dry.  The finish is lovely - but make sure you do it really early giving it plenty of time to dry.

For the overlay I found that to make sure I had it in the exact place I had to stand up to stamp, something I don't normally do.

That's me for today.

'Bye.