Dream Teamer Lee Kellogg provided the colors for this week's challenge: lime green and gray. These are colors I'm not usually drawn to, but it's good for me to get out of my comfort zone and, as a result, I have lots of ideas to work on. Here's my card:
I never throw away paper scraps and, over time, I've collected quite a stash of photo paper. I've been playing with the scraps and find that they take well to a variety of inks. The background was made by dry-embossing photo paper with the
Houndstooth stencil (LJ913), sanding the raised edges and applying Ranger's Distress Inks in Shabby Shutters and Pumice Stone with the applicator tool. When applying the inks, remember to begin with a circular motion off the edge of the paper and work toward the middle.
The
Hot Air Balloon (LL3003) was dry-embossed on
black metal and, again, the raised edges were sanded to expose the gray base. I used a Copic marker (New Leaf) to add color to the stencil and smoothed it out with the applicator tool.
The sentiment is from a set that most likely came from Michael's dollar bin; the brads are by Basic Gray.
There you have it. Be sure to check out the other Dream Team members' blogs, listed on the right, to see what they've been working on. And don't forget to let us see your work by linking to the Dreamweaver Stencils bog,
DREAM it UP!
See you next week,
Liz
Love this card. I am so loving the balloon stencil! GREAT JOB
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Liz!! I love metal with the Hot Air Balloon!!! Did you receive the Blogs for Boobies cards?
ReplyDeleteThe background really gives the impression of motion. I like it!
ReplyDeleteVery creative Liz! Great use of lots of products, I enlarged it to see more detail, it's very pretty up close!
ReplyDeleteVery cool use of the photo paper! Wish I could see this in person.
ReplyDeleteOh, Liz! This is very clever with the photo paper and the alcohol markers! I bet it looks SO cool in person.
ReplyDeleteThat hot air balloon looks great on metal.
ReplyDeleteI really love the combination of materials and colors in your creation Liz! I never would have thought of the houndstooth background with the balloon, but it really gives it a modern feel with the colors you used etc.
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