Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Skipping Stones Design Sketch 79

I'm one of the guest designers over at Skipping Stones Design this month - here's the sketch we're playing with this week! Be sure to check their site for details on the challenge and a peek at how the design team interpreted the sketch...
Here's my card, and a little bonus tag.... For the card, I stamped the butterfly from the Always Here set on watercolor paper, watercolored with reinkers, and masked it with a sticky note. Then I stamped the Timeless Textures background in dye ink over the whole panel, and spritzed the ink with water to let it bleed and run. After that was dry, I went back and added a shadow around the butterfly with reinkers.I layered that panel on black cardstock, then used a corner punch (EK Success) to create the rounded corner slots. The sentiment is stamped on a small label, made by cutting one side of a Spellbinders Labels 18 die, then moving the die down and cutting again to create a smaller tag. I died the ribbon with the same reinkers I used to paint the butterflies. The tag was created with the same elements used on the card, and I curved the sentiment stamp on my block before stamping.

Here's a close-up on the butterfly - I love how it looks like it's raised off the card - it really isn't!
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7 comments:

  1. Dina, this is absolutely beautiful!

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  2. Oh my goodness Dina....Your creation took my breath away!!! Just beautiful!! Thank you so much for joining us this month at Skipping Stones Design!!!

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  3. You do such gorgeous work...wow! So happy to be working with you this month over at Skipping Stones!

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  4. gorgeous! That butterfly is amazing! Glad to have you designing with us this month!

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  5. Wow Dina, I couldn't believe that butterfly wasn't popped up...what a marvelous job at shading! So glad your joining us this month, I love your work.

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  6. Wow Miss Dina this is So Beautiful! That Butterfly is Amazing! 8-)

    Hugs!
    Shannon

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  7. The depth on that butterfly is absolutely AMAZING. I would SWEAR that it was raised from the paper! Also love the background technique. The whole ensemble is gorgeous!

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