…a part of the soul that is visible to others

Sharing a rather elegant card featuring stamps and dies from Concord & 9th, their So Happy For You stamp set and Floral Hoop die set.

I’ve followed the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches for my layout, just adding in the hoop of flowers to give it a focal point.  I went with the black, white and copper colour scheme to play at CAS on Friday.  For interest, and so I could also enter my card at Back to Basics, I did the black background in alcohol inks.

I also alcohol inked some more Yupo in copper to die cut the thin foliage die from the Floral Hoop set.  I then stamped some of the flowers and heat embossed them before die cutting with the matching dies.  For the leaves I did some alcohol lift-inking off the left over from the black background, which gave me another different black. 

For my sentiment I added embossing powder to some of my fav chippies from Make it Crafty.  A strip of the copper inked Yupo provided the last thin rectangular element of the sketch and finished off the card nicely.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Bellbird Paperarts Embossing Powder ~ Ultra Fine Copper

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail White

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Concord & 9th Dies ~ 10448 Floral Hoop

Embellishments

Make it Crafty Chipboard Adapt-a-Words ~ Birthday

Make it Crafty Chipboard Single Layered Words ~ 2" Celebrate

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink ~ Copper Mixative, Pearl Mixative, Pitch Black, Slate & Snow Cap

Tim Holtz Ink ~ Lift-Ink

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Black

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Black & White

Yupo ~ 200gsm White

Stamps

Concord & 9th ~ 10447 So Happy For You

Challenges

Back to Basics #12 ~ Inky Backgrounds

CAS on Friday #142 ~ Copper, Black and White

Thanks for stopping by!