Sunday, February 12, 2017

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge 394-I love you

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I get the opportunity to showcase
 STAMPlorations products
 for this week's Cupcake Inspirations Challenge 394

This color combo always makes  me think of the jokes we told as kids:
What is black, white and red all over... a newspaper. (read instead of red).

But joking aside this color combo makes for very elegant looking projects.

I made a card for this challenge. I started with a page from the 
STAMPlorations color book: COLOR BLOOMS.
colorbloomscover 

The flowers are so fun to color. I took one of the sheets that has 4 quarters. I cut it so I had a 1/4 of the page. I took red markers and colored the flowers. Depending on how many layers of the watercolor/marker I put, the flowers ranged in shade and hue.
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When I was done coloring the flowers, I cut the 1/4 in half again to make the panel on my card. I adhered it to a piece of black cardstock.

Now the flowers look pretty like they were just colored, but I wanted to add some texture to the centers. So I put generous puddles of Aleene's tacky glue to the centers.

I then took my heat gun and heated the glue until it burned.
 It left the centers with a lovely crunchy texture.
 (You have to make sure you only
 burn the glue not the paper, so move your heat gun frequently)

I could have left the centers crunchy and white
 but I wanted them to be dark, so I took acrylic paint and painted them.
 I experimented with some black and white designer paper
and embellishments. I had lace, sequins, a prima butterfly.
I also had put glitter with glue over the black on the flowers.

 There were things that I liked about what I had put together,
but there were elements that I just didn't like. I painted over 
the glitter. It just didn't look right. I liked the butterfly
 but it was just too yellowed so I painted it black.
 I kept the sequins and lace. I felt it needed a sentiment.
I stamped the sentiment from one of the new STAMPlorations sets
preview-PocketBlooms-Shery 

So here is the finished result. 
I really like how it turned out.

I hope that my card has inspired you and that you had fun reading how I made it.  



5 comments:

  1. Wow this is gorgeous!! I love all the wonderful texture you've added to this. I'm so glad you're guest designing with us this week. Thanks so much for supporting our challenges! I just became your newest follower. ;0)

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  2. Hadn't heard of using the tacky glue for centers.
    It works beautifully.
    The flowers are colored so nicely and the centers
    really pop.
    thanks for sharing a great tag.

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  3. What a beautiful card. It is absolutely fascinating how you constructed it. So glad to have you gals over guest designing this week with use at Cupcake Inspirations.

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  4. Interesting effect with the tacky glue! I'll have to try this out! I love the bits of ephemera you added to your card, especially the black butterfly! Glad to have your talent showcased on our blog this week at Cupcake Inspirations!

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  5. Ohmygoodness! What a romantic and beautiful design!!! And wow! VERY interesting technique you used! I would have NEVER thought to do that! Very clever! Thank you so much for joining us over at Cupcake Inspirations and inspiring this week!

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