Shades of Blue Challenge

This is my entry for the Shades of Blue Challenge at Emmas Cards UK. http://www.emmascardsuk.com/p/emmas-crafty-challenge_06.html

 Shades of Blue Challenge Card

M &M (Materials and Method)

Materials

Card

DCWV The Luxury Stack 12x12 pad

Tim Holtz Adirondack Coredinations 12x12 pad

Bazzill Basics textured 12x 12 sheets

Variety of blue textured card from my stash

Inks

Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass Distress Ink

Tsukineko Brilliance Mediterranean Blue

Archival Cobalt

Die Cutting and Embossing

Spellbinders Grand Labels Eleven

Spellbinders normal size Labels Eleven

Sizzix Tattered Florals by Tim Holtz Bigz Die

Spellbinders Anemone Flower Topper Dies

A4 Touch of Mica masks - Clouds

Stamps

La Blanche Stamp of Birds and Cage

Creative Expressions sentiment from Dreamy Sentiments Set

Other

Stampendous Clear embossing powder

One white organza flower from Creative Expressions, died blue using my own mixture of mica powder and water.

Few Kaisercraft blue pearls and small blue gems for accents. Some sky blue grosgrain ribbon from stash

Tim Holtz idea-ology sander for distressing

Tim Holtz Inking Tool

Method

Foreground Frames

Outer

Cut DCWV Luxury Pearl finish patterned 12 x 12 sheet to A4 size, cut out aperture using the largest of the grand labels eleven, embossed using Touch of Mica Clouds mask. Inked with tumbled glass distress ink.

Inner

Cut Coredinations 12x12 sheet to ‘A4 size and cut aperture using Grand Labels Eleven two sizes down from biggest. Embossed using Touch of Mica Clouds mask. Inked with tumbled glass.

These two frames were attached to each other with slightly raised foam pads to add dimension. 

Background

Cut several cards with a variety of shades and textures and cut into strips 3 to 4 inches wide and about 12 inches long, fanned out to make sun rays effect. Placed these centrally under the two outer frames after attaching to A4 card and trimming to tidy. Stuck these flat except for overlapping and texture. 

Stamped central image of birds using Archival Cobalt blue, cut and embossed with labels eleven smaller set. I inked the card with tumbled glass and added few small pearls to accent berries.

Stamped sentiment with brilliance ink and heat embossed with clear powder. Added tiny star gems to highlight star trail in stamp, inked card with tumbled glass distress ink. Card also cut with one of the smaller labels eleven. I designed the sentiment to be a detachable keepsake but I stuck it on here with foam to lift it off surface. Looped grosgrain ribbon and attached to back of sentiment.

Flowers

One blossom was cut with Tattered Florals from textured sheet of Bazzill Basics I had embosses with the A4 cloud mask. This was then sanded, scrunched and inked with tumbled glass. The layers were stacked using foam for dimension to lift proud from the page. To top it off I used a little organza flower which I had died blue (from white) using a solution I made with mica powder and water.

The other blossom was cut and embossed using Spellbinders anemone dies and one doily accent. These were sanded but left uninked as I wanted the matt finish to juxtapose with the more pearly finish of the other blossom. This blossom was moulded to shape and stacked with foam for height and was finished with a little blue pearl.

If anything has not been explained properly please just ask by leaving a comment or post on CBN Facebook. I would welcome comments, thanks for looking. Vee x