Hello Crafty Friends!
I am sorry for not posting yesterday, but our internet was pooped and I don't know how to fix it. AND the person that fixes it for us was working an all nighter. (He is an assistant to a wedding photographer and videographer). You can check out his awesome work on his
website.
Well, this late post is going to be about the
Mojo Monday Sketch.
If you follow me on
Facebook you would had noticed that I originally wanted to make a baby card with this sketch, but my friend
Aileen honored me by asking me to make thank you cards for her bridal entourage using mint, coral, light pink, and gray.
This is what I created using the
May 2013 National Scrapbooking Paper Packet: Dream Pop Special.
Card
Word Puzzle and In the Background stamp sets.
I have been wanting to play with water coloring (ink & water brush) so I tried it out with the flowers in hopes to get the colors she asked for. I used Juniper,
Blush,
Sorbet and
Olive
Ink
I was really surprised that the Sorbet Ink worked out as an okay coral color because to me it's really orangy, but I am not a color expert and I was just really happy it worked out.
I had a lot of fun playing with the water brush, it was definitely a learning experience I had to learn how much water was needed to create the color I wanted. It does take time, but once I had my flow I was done in no time.
Hope you join the Monday Mojo fun!
Aileen had previously asked me to make her guest bridal party thank you cards, in which I was honored at that time, too, so I was surprised when she asked me to make a new set.
For the first design I made for her she requested for mint blue, gray, and lace.
I knew I wanted to
use the
Love
Doily Acrylix stamp,
Colonial
White Rosette Ribbon, and that I had
gray
ink and paper.
But, I was a little
worried about the mint blue.
It’s the
new color of the year, technically emerald green, but for spring and weddings,
mint blue is the "It Color".
I browsed
through my ink.
I grabbed
Lagoon
at first, but I knew it was too bright and too deep (it was my wedding
color).
I kept browsing and found
Juniper.
I was super stoked, EXCEPT I didn’t have any
Juniper
Cardstock.
(Sigh), then my light
bulb went on->Look through the
Paper
Packects because, they not only have the printed cardstock, but also have coordinating
cardstock.
Sadly, I found nothing and none of the
printed cardstock was too my liking.
I
knew I had to think outside the box.
I
almost forgot about the
National
Scrapbooking Special Paper Packet.
I
looked at the zip strip description and on it read: “mint.”
BIG SMILE!
Then, I thought to myself, “awe, we don’t carry that ink color.
I wonder if this will be a new color in the
new catalog.”
(I don’t know if it is,
but
Juniper
is a good match).
It took me about 45 minutes, maybe an hour to put this card
together.
I knew I wanted to place the
Love
Doily Acrylix stamp in the middle because I just placed it there and BAM I
loved the placement.
I was thinking I
would have used it as a background or off to the side, but I liked it just as
you see it.
I chose to use the
National
Scrapbooking Special Paper Packet’s mint as the base of the card because I
wanted to show the texture and it was the only paper I had close enough to mint
blue.
I knew it would be difficult and tedious to cut out the
doily, but this card needed depth.
I
stamped the doily twice, first with
gray
ink, cut that out and then with
juniper
to cut out the center of the doily.
I
popped up the flower to show more depth.
Because I used the
Colonial
White Rosette Ribbon under the base of the doily, I had also popped up it
up with
dimensional
tape.
The “Thank You” stamp I used
is discontinued (D1361). I stamped it with
black
and cut it out.
And distressed it with
gray
ink and
juniper
using
daubers.
I also distressed the doily with the same
colors.
Placing the doily on the top of the mint B&T was BLAH
aka plain, so I put
white
cardstock behind it.
Still BORING!
Ugh.
Then I remembered I had an embossing folder named, Lacy Brocade.
I dug it up and embossed the white paper.
YULK!
Still not satisfied, so I started to lightly distress it with juniper;
not enough,
added the gray; not enough,
added more juniper.
It just looked so
plain.
So I decided to distress the
sides with gray ink and that did the trick.
Finally I was satisfied and so was Aileen.
Thanks for reading and Happy scrappin’!
