Too Much of a Good Thing

Hi Bloggers.

As promised, today I'm giving you a sneak peak from Saturday's shows. I've already told you about some of the products on the show in this post. I've made a few shaped cards for this show as I have the Spellbinders Grand Decorative Ovals and Circles on the show that I launched in a Pick of the Week last July. They are just gorgeous die sets and making a shaped card gives me the excuse to use the largest dies in the set.

Anyway, here's the card -

I'm going to start with the image for a change. I stamped the beautiful lady from the Creative Expressions Party Ladies Stamp Set onto Coconut White Card using Jet Black Archival and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder. I coloured her in using Cosmic Shimmer Matt Drawing Inks - I used Clover and Summer Haze from the Soft Velvet Set, Dark Spice from the Autumn Shades Set and Warm Delight from the Skin Tones Set. I cut her out using Spellbinders Labels 25 and inked through the die with Dusty Concord Distress Ink using Cut n Dry Foam.

I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set using Jet Black Archival and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder. I cut it out using Spellbinders Card Creator Distressed Edges and inked through the die with Dusty Concord.

I cut the second largest of the Spellbinders Grand Decorative Ovals One. I left the card in the die after embossing. I inked up the Creative Expressions Hexagon Script A6 Stamp with Milled Lavender Distress Ink and stamped through the die on one side. You can't get right up to the edge but that doesn't matter. I inked up the stamp again and stamped the other half. You don't need to worry too much about lining it up as the image panel hides the join. I wiped any excess ink from the die and then inked around the edges with Dusty Concord using Cut n Dry Foam.

I cut the largest of the Grand Decorative Ovals One and inked through the die with Dusty Concord.

I tied a bow using 2 lengths of White Silky Crush Ribbon and added a Lavender Dazzler.

I assembled the card as shown.

Hope you like the sneak peak.

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Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.