Hello and thank you for popping by today – it’s my 36th wedding anniversary and I wanted to share a card that’s perfect for the occasion.
It is also a card for this week’s Global Design Project #297 Colour Challenge. I love this colour combination but needed to think of a more masculine way to combine them.
After some thinking time, I decided to use the Henna Hearts Stamp Set and one of the new Plenty of Patterns Decorative Masks.
I placed the heart stamp onto my Stamparatus and used the hinge-step technique to stamp the image three times, once in each of the colours from the challenge. Each image overlapped slightly, creating a colour variation. The next step involved stamping the sentiment, from the Art in Bloom Stamp Set, using Blackberry Bliss.
For the card front, I used painter’s tape to hold the mask in place over a large piece of Basic White cardstock before colouring the card. Using my Blending Brushes, I blended the three colours across the card. Once the mask was removed, there was lots of great colour separated by clean, white lines. Before I adhered this piece of cardstock to the Fresh Freesia cardbase, I tied a bow in a length of Fresh Freesia Open Weave Ribbon and wrapped it around this layer.
I cut a piece of Pear Pizzazz cardstock and embossed it with the Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder. THen I centred it on the card front. The three hearts layer was popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals and angled on the front of the card.
The card insert and envelope were stamped with the same heart image. The finishing touch was to add a few Fresh Freesia In Colour Jewels.
I am really enjoying developing my blending techniques. Have you used the Blending Brushes yet? What do you think about them?
I think my favourite thing about this card is my sentiment – ‘Never not loving you’. This is perfect for my anniversary today.
Happy stamping.
If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.
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