Saturday, June 21, 2008

Friends Always

I was playing around with LAD's Far East set a couple of days ago. This is one of the "Asian-like" cards that I came up with. The layout kind of reminded me of a Japanese kimono.

PP is from Prima, button's Creative Cafe, and ribbon is from May Arts. There are tiny silver rhinestones on each flower, and Fun Flock detail on the lantern.

For my favorite detail, though, you have to look a little closer. I inked up each of the stamps, and in order to mimic the rustic-ness of the PP, I took the tip of my scissors and removed ink in straight lines going in all directions. It makes the main image look older and "scratched", as if it were painted. I thought it was kind of cool! :)

Anywho, I'm off to get a bit of shut eye. I can barely keep my eyes open! Till next time...

xox,
k

11 comments:

  1. Beautiful! How do you adhere buttons to a card? Thanks! (malissalangston@aol.com)

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  2. Beautiful card! I'm always happy to have things pointed out to me, because I would miss so much otherwise - great idea with the "scissors scratching!!"

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  3. Hey, I really like that. I like the way you made the stamped image look old. I love the button placement too. TFS! XO, MIMI

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  4. Really pretty, the colors are great :)

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  5. That scratch technique is awesome! If you hadn't pointed that out I would have awesomed the stamp was designed that way.

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  6. This is absolutely lovely. I enjoyed the way you did the scratching with the scissors (a great idea) to create a unique look to your card. Wonderful colors and details.

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  7. i love what you did with this set. great job. love the colors.

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  8. Beautiful card! Love the layout and the way the button "fits" into the main image! :o)

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  9. I just LOVE this! Great tip on scratching some of the ink off; looks perfect with that pretty paper! Thanks for sharing!

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