Hello and welcome! I got to join the Card Chain Challenge again for the September challenge and today’s the reveal day.
The September challenge had the following options:
Colour Palette Option
(Exact matching is not required.)
Sketch Option
(Orient as desired.)
Theme Options: Flamingos / Fish / Friendship
Product / Technique Options: Foil / Silhouette
And here’s what I made –
If not obvious, I used the colors, the sketch, the Friendship theme and the Foil from the product option.
I started with the background, using Neat and Tangled Rice Paddies stencil. I didn’t have a teal colored ink in my stash, so I used green ink and blue on top of that, going over the same areas so that both the inks blend together to give a teal.
Once done, I set that aside and stamped the mermaid, the shell and the starfish from the Simon Says Stamp Be a Mermaid on white cardstock using VersaFine Onyx black ink and colored them using distress inks. On the mermaid tail, I also used Perfect Pearls of similar colors and also Gansai Tambi Starry Skies in gold to get the colors from the theme. I then fussy cut all the images and went over the edges using black Zig brush marker.
I die cut three panels of increasing size from white cardstock using Hero Arts Infinity Dies Arches. On the middle panel, I added a strip of foiled washi tape, which had a gorgeous wavy pattern on it. On the top panel, I stamped images from Trinity Stamps Sea Life Silhouettes. I then adhered the pieces over the stencilled card base. After that, I adhered the mermaid tail, the shell and star fish and also a few sequins. I also added a few drops of the same gold from Gansai Tambi Starry Skies. I then stamped the sentiment from Winnie and Walter The Big, The Bold and The Happy stamp set.
I got this beautiful card and some lovely die cuts from Linda this month!
Checkout the entire chain of cardmakers who participated this time in the the Card Chain Challenge challenge blog. Wow! I am so impressed every single time by the variety of cards!
Thank you so much for stopping by! 🙂
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