…which bloom and fade in a day

My card today features a beautiful image from Digistamp Atelier called Little Geisha with Butterfly.

I chose the image as this card is for a friend who has recently fallen in love with Japan, making two trips there in recent times.  I’ve coloured up the image in traditional geisha make-up with a white face and red eyeliner, brows and lips.

The layout follows the current sketch at Sketch Saturday.  To stretch my creativity further when I went looking for inspiration at challenge blog sites I decided I’d do the sketch as one layer in keeping with the current theme at My Time to Craft.  All of my elements have been made on the base of X-Press It paper onto which I first printed my image.  I then cut the fan die cut (in place of the bow) and embossed around my image with a Spellbinders Nestabilities circle.  I used the same die to cut a mask and also cut some more mask material to form my ‘ribbon’.  I then added in some stencilling using Tim’s Embossed Paste technique.

My colour scheme and choice of stencil were based on inspiration from the challenge at Creative Card Crew of lavender and lace.  I added the die cut fan, which I inked and foiled, to the inside of the card to show through the negative on the card front.  As you can’t see much of the stencil on the front I decided to carry it through to the inside without the embossing.  Not so sure about how easy the message will be to read but it does make for a pretty inside.

For added stability I mounted my single layer onto a card base.  I am really pleased with how this all came together and am enjoying not needing embellies to add dimension and interest to my cards.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin C00, C0, C1, E000, E00, E21, E11

Eyes E21, E25, E27

Lips R35, R29, R46

Hair N6, N8, 100

Outfit BV00, BV11, BV13, BV17, RV 11, RV32, RV34, V20, V22, V25

Butterfly & Flower BV20, R00, RV11

Chalks & Powders etc

Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder ~ Milled Lavender

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc 

Crafter’s Companion Kimono Collection Die ~ Butterfly Fan (MRK-MD-FAN) 

Spellbinders Nestabilities Die ~ LF-114 Grand Circles

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil ~ THS034Lace

Inks & Paints etc

Teresa Collins Basically Essentials ~ Modeling Paste

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Milled Lavender & Spun Sugar

Papers

Bazzill Grasscloth Texture Cardstock ~ Cool Heather

Core’dinations Smooth Cardstock ~ Great White

Ranger Foil Sheets ~ Vintage

X-Press It ~ Blending Cardstock

Stamps

Close To My Heart Occasions ~ D1514 Just a Number (retired)

Digistamp Atelier ~ Little Geisha with Butterfly

Challenges

Creative Card Crew #107 ~ Lavender and Lace

My Time to Craft #316 ~ One Layer Only

Sketch Saturday ~ Sketch #401

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