Pen and Paperie: Christian and Yazmin

My card today features a special image Betty, from Simply B Stamps, drew up for her son, Christian, and his finance, Yazmin, to celebrate their engagement.

I had a lot of fun with this card, going for a pretty but grungy look to suit the Frankenstein theme. With that theme I just had to distress my gorgeous papers from Riddersholm Design so I am entering this in the current challenge over at Dream Valley.

I didn’t follow a sketch for this card but was inspired in the design by a beautiful card from Dorota of the Riddersholm Design DT. For further inspiration I played along with the tic tac toe challenge Left of Center has running choosing the right-hand vertical line using a die cut (I have three actually), a charm and lots of different ink techniques. I’ve inked the edges of my designer papers, sprayed ink on some of my flowers, inked up my die cuts and also inked my image.

You can’t go Frankenstein without having some stitching and I have used real stitching to join my two pieces of designer paper. With that stitching I am also entering my card in Cheery Lynn Designs’ current challenge. I’ve used their beautiful Heart to Heart Doily die as a background to the image and framed the heart with their funky Barbed Wire die. I cut the barbed wire from metal and distressed it with some Old Rust ink, love how it turned out. I also distressed the doily with some Fran-tage, the inner heart I inked up and then added more Fran-tage and finished the distressing with some crackle paint.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin BV20, BV23, BV25, BV29 & G24, YG03, YG11, YG17

Eyes E21, E25, E29, 0 & E33, E57, E59, 0

Lips R46, R59, RV99

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29 & T5, T7, T9, 100

Outfit V20, V22, V25, V28 & W3, W5, W7, W9

Roses G03, G09, G29, R14, R46, R59

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Silver & Aged Wine

Pebbles Chalk ~ Lilac

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc