Monday, April 12, 2010

SPCC #42 & Sketch Girl #15

Boy it's mighty late and I'm exhausted!! It's almost 1 AM and Jamie comes downstairs asking me if I'm ready for bed. My answer is a big fat no so he asks if I'm still posting. I poked fun at him a bit saying, "That's what bloggers do hunny." because he hasn't posted on his blog for like.. a year? LOL. So here's my card for this week's Sketch Girl #15 and SPCC #42. The main image is using the floating reinker technique which I am doing at this month's workshops. A picture tutorial can be found here. You basically use shimmery card stock, stamp and emboss your image and then spritz water over top to cover the entire card stock. Then take your aqua painter and reinkers and add it to the water and watch it float all over. Super fun and super easy. I thought it needed a bit of something extra so I added the faux stitching and I'm not sure if it was a good idea... I attempted to erase it and lemme tell you, it doesn't work. Why on earth I thought it might even remotely work is beyond me. Anyways I'm off to bed!! G'nite! 


Card Ingredients (All items Stampin’ Up unless indicated. )
Stamps: Embrace Life, Lovely Labels
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White craft, Versamark, Basic Black
Paper: Shimmery White, Elegant Eggplant, Basic Black
Embellishments: White embossing powder, ribbon (Michael's & Costco)
Tools: 1 1/4" & 1 3/8" circle punch, Signo white gel pen, aqua painter, heat tool

10 comments:

scrapsnsuch@gmail.com said...

Your main panel is just beautiful. I have never tried that technique, it sounds like fun, and it looks so cool! Great use of ribbon too for the strips. So happy to see you playing along again with us at Sketch Girl!!!

Kristin - The Fifth Sparrow No More said...

Your technique that you did sounds cool and looks beautiful! Thank you for playing along at SPCC!

-Kristin SP Diva

RobbynW said...

Very pretty Sandy! I love your technique, I have only used it to fill an image, and love how it looks on a whole panel. I will have to try that ;o) Your ribbon strips are awesome too. Thanks for playing with us at SPCC!
Robbyn - SP Diva

Emily said...

This card is perfect!

Emily-SP Diva

Juanita said...

So cute, love the faux stitching. Thanks for joining us at SPCC.

Anonymous said...

Fabulous card! Melisa-SP Diva

Stephanie said...

Wow! Just gorgeous! Thanks for playing along at SPCC!

Jess said...

Fab card! Love the stitching detail! Thanks for joining us at Sketch Girl!

Leigh Ann Baird said...

Very cool card! I love it!

Shauna K said...

beautiful! love the stitching :D
- Shauna {SP Diva}