It's All Blue by Debs Wainwright
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Good Morning
everyone, Debs here, and this week I'm sharing a birthday card for someone with
whom I work. I don't know her very well, so used pale colours and flowers. You
cannot really go wrong with flowers so hopefully she will like it.
Here's what I did
My background
was created by puffing some pigment powder on to water mixed media paper and
spritzing with water and dried with a heat gun. I the spritzed and flicked
(first seen by Tim Holtz) and allowed the drips to sit for a while.
I rolled some kitchen roll over the card and then
dried with heat gun to expose where the colour has been removed by the water.
The background was finished by using all three good
wishes stamps from Emma Godfrey Minis. These stamps come with three lines of
birthday wishes. You separate them to have 3 individual greetings but I kept
them together and with a light blue permanent ink lightly stamped over the
background. I also added more visual texture with stamps from the teasel plate.
I love the thistle stamp and used a repetition in
black permanent ink, of 3 the create my focal point. I coloured the thistle using water soluble crayon. Before adhering the background to the matting I
attached some ribbon. The card was assembled and bling added the flowers; the sentiment finished the card.
What I used
Ribbon and pearls from my stash
I had a time when I found it really difficult to
make cards. I just couldn't find inspiration, but learning to play with
backgrounds has helped, and now quite enjoy it.
Take care as always
Hugs Debs xx
7 comments
Love those teasels. Aren't they beautiful! Your background is fab! You can almost see them blowing in the breeze. Lx
ReplyDeleteLovely card Debs I'm sure they loved it
ReplyDeleteLove
Amanda x
It's lovely Deb and I bet she will be delighted with it
ReplyDeleteIt's gorgeous Debs, such a lovely background and beautifully detailed.
ReplyDeleteFliss xx
Fabulous card! Lovely background for the cool stamp and gorgeous bling! xxx
ReplyDeleteStunning card Debs, I love the background! xxx
ReplyDeleteWonderful bluesy thistle trio - gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteAlison x
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