Frosted Flowers

Hi and welcome!  Jen Mitchell is our hostess over at Freshly Made Sketches this week and she is wanting a square card.  My card isn't totally square because the dimensions were a bit off on the various elements, but it's close to.

I started by die-cutting the tag from In the Navy cardstock and then I ran it through the die-cutting machine with the Japanese Anenome 3D embossing folder.  Once that was done, I lightly rubbed Versamark ink over the raised areas and then sprinkled on Frosted Crystal embossing powder and heat set it.  Once that was completed, I took some Sterling Foundry Wax and dabbed some over the heat embossed areas with my little finger, adding more or less to areas to add interest.  Finally, I heat-set the foundry wax and set the tag aside.  It's got such lovely texture in real life.  I bought the Frosted Crystal EP some time ago and couldn't remember what/who had inspired me to purchase it (typical!) so I've been playing around with it a bit lately.

The rest of the card was fairly simple.  I stamped a background stamp on some aqua paper and corner-rounded two corners.  I adhered that to a white card base and then took a previously prepared embossed panel which I'd sprayed with Frozen Fog mica stain spray.  I die-cut another tag and also a strip which I adhered to a strip of darker aqua cardstock.  I offset the navy tag from the silver one and added some navy baker's twine and glued it to the card.  Finally, I silver heat-embossed the sentiment, stacked it three deep and added that to the card.

This was an interesting exercise, because again I used my Cardmaking Sketchbook, but this time, I didn't take the time to actually plan out the card.  I drew the sketch onto one of the blank pages and put some vague ideas beside it about a Christmas sprig, patterned paper and a vellum band.  In the execution, I changed everything and without having the pre-planned sketch notes to help me, this took twice as long as last week's card.  I wrote a couple of notes in the sketchbook as I was working to remind me.  So my unintentional experiment proved to me that the time spent up-front planning the card saves me a lot of time in the execution.

Thanks so much for visiting.  I hope you'll check out the fabulous cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  To The Wise One (Honey Bee), You Matter (SSS)

Ink:  Versamark, Pool (Altenew)

Cardstock:  White, In The Navy (Gina K), Fresh Aqua (Memory Box)

Dies:  Stitched Traditional Tag Stax (MFT, To The Wise One (Honey Bee)

Accessories:  Sterling Foundry Wax, Frozen Fog Mica Spray Stain (Tim Holtz), Burlap Embossing Folder (Honey Bee), Japanese Anenome Embossing Folder (Lisa Horton), Silver EP, Frosted Crystal EP

Cheers

Karren