I decided to try taking my pictures near a different window & so far the colors are much better. Yah! Now I can show you the Easter projects I finished a few days ago.
Thought I'd send my sister some MFT cross stitch tags to help her pass the time. That inspired me to stitch one myself & here it is.
I chose one of the
MFT Easter Egg patterns & just reversed the colors so I have more blue. The sentiment is from PTI Mat Stack 3 & I used a bit of lace at the top instead of twine or ribbon. I may attach it to a card like I usually do with tags. I'm entering
SSS Wednesday.
You may remember my
acrylic paint flowers card inspired by my friend,
Helen. Before I bought that set of paints, I tried making a panel with some Distress Paints. One of the colors was really light & the panel didn't look good to me, so it just sat on my table. That was some time last year! After making the card for CAS Mix Up, I decided to black emboss images from Poppystamps Little Kindness & see how they looked, rather than throwing away the panel.
Surprise, surprise--enough of them were worth using to make a card! I fussy cut the images & splattered them with Distress Stain tarnished brass.
The purple textured scrap was also on my table & this time I remembered that Helen had stamped foliage in black before adding her flowers & leaves. I used PTI Turning a New Leaf & absolutely love how it looks! The black embossed sentiment is a very old one by Stampendous & I'm not sure it had ever been used. The panel was matted with black cardstock & I added gold sequins. I'm entering
Poppystamps,
SSS Wednesday &
WAW.
I took a break from making Spring/Easter cards to get back to Christmas for
Rudolph Days. Most of you know I really love classy, elegant cards. That's what I made using Uniko stamps Winter Foliage & Season of Beauty with a color combo of ivory, gold, green & red.
The holly was inked with Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy & Thyme. For the berries I used Brilliance Rocket Red & Pearlescent Poppy. The last time I actually went into a store before the virus attacked, I bought a gold Pentel Sparkle Pop pen. I held my breath & used it to color the lines & dots.
You can't believe what a difference it made! I've tried to use glitter glue in the past for little areas where I wanted gold sparkle, but the pen works so much better. I gold embossed the sentiment & the edges of the mat. I'm trying to make flat Christmas cards & really I don't think the focal point needs to be popped up. I'm also entering
ABC Christmas &
SSS Wednesday.
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