Hello, hello and welcome! We are creating \”Occasion\” cards this week at Watercooler Wednesday and we would love to see your card in our gallery. Heidi is our hostess. I made a Mixed Media encouragement card.
I really like the rustic vintage brick background combined with the heat embossed spray of flowers.
This background was made by hand-dipping the background in diluted die ink and custom tinting my embossing paste.
- I mixed brown ink with water and Irridescent Shimmer Spray and then dipped a piece of Bristol cardstock into the puddle. I dried the panel and then repeated.
- I blended my Embossing Paste with brown ink for the bricks.
- I swiped the embossing paste over my stencil with a palette knife. I wanted a rough look so I didn\’t cover the entire stencil and I made sure there was a variety of thickness to the paste.
- While the embossing paste was wet, I sprinkled just a bit of brown metallic embossing powder on the paste, wiped most of it off and then heat set. I love the texture and interest it adds.
- I heat embossed Altenew\’s Best Mom spray (in brown metalic) and then die-cut the image.
I am also playing along with:
Tic Tac Toe I chose diagonal top right to bottom left. Brown, ink blending and metallic.
UPDATE: I was so pleased to see my card was a Team Pick at Tic Tac Toe.
I am so pleased that you stopped by!
Karen
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Absolutely adore this card, Karen – that background looks amazing and I love the outline flower atop too!! Thanks for the inspiration at Watercooler Wednesday!!
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Hi, I saw your card on the TTT challenge and just wanted to stop by to tell you how much I like it! That flower stamp/die is one of my favs. Amazing background for it.
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Beautiful card! Love the textures and layout! Thanks for sharing over at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge.
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Gorgeous card and I really love the contrast of the mixed media background with the black and white flowers. Thanks so much for sharing with us at the Tic Tac Toe challenge this week!
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Love your background,fabulous colours too.xxx
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Just gorgeous, Karen! I love the way you've used the various mixed media! Who would have thought a card featuring browns would be something I'd love so much!!! Take care! 🙂
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Wow, Karen. What a great mixed media card! I love the various colours and textures. The layout is absolutely perfect. Thanks so much for being part of the team.
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