Hurrah--Indiana Pacers are in the NBA finals! My folks were both born in Indy and so was I. My dad played college and semi-pro basketball when he was young and was a radio sportscaster most of his life. I grew up loving sports and going to lots of games. Basketball was always my favorite and that's probably in my blood as Hoosiers are absolutely crazy about basketball! So fun to have something positive to think about right now.
Time Out: Your Favorite Winged Thing challenge inspired me to make my first card using PTI's Angelic Sentiments Die. I do love angel ornaments and have a few in my collection. I die cut 3 angels so it's like a chipboard element. I painted her with white metallic watercolor, using a swirling motion on the wings. You can see the shimmer in my IG post. Picking the background took awhile as I held the angel over multiple cardstocks and specialty papers. I kept coming back to the CN9 pack of red and green foil paper which I've barely used. Love the green which can look blue depending on the light and angle. The die is my very old Spellbinders Labels 18. You may know dry embossing is one of my favorite elements for cards and this old Cuttlebug folder gave just the elegant look I wanted without distracting from the focal point. Found the perfect sentiment in Honey Bee's Rejoice stamp set. Not sure why the strip looks gray as it's actually the same white cardstock. I'm also entering SSS Wednesday.
It's time for the reveal of cards exchanged in May by those of us participating in The CCC. I used the colors and friendship theme.I'm still loving layering stencils, including SSS Layered Flowers. The inks are Memento Sweet Plum, Lilac Posies and Desert Sand plus Delicata Golden Glitz. I've been wanting to use the Scrapbook.com Hi Cover Plate and love the fun look. I inked it and the Birch Press Simple Butterfly Contour Layers with the same inks. I did add Stardust Stickles to the flower centers after I took the picture.
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