I don’t do a lot
of just because crafting but my card today is exactly that and it features a
beautiful image from Sureya called The Strapped Bride, which is available to
colour as a freebie on DeviantART.
I was thinking to
make this a Steampunk themed card hence the grungy kind of green wedding dress
and lace, I was even going to use some pipe embellies but it didn’t quite work
out that way.
I bought the paper from
Kaisercraft yesterday from my LSS, which is sadly closing down. It was just perfect for the image and the
sketch I followed from Paperminutes. To jazz it up
even more I added Fran-tage to some of the roses on one of the papers. I have the perfect black paper with a shiny
raised print in black that I was going to mount the image on but I couldn’t find
it among my stash. So I made my own with
some more Fran-tage, I love the effect so I think I’m going to use it again.
I added the bow
element to echo the big bows on the image.
I’m loving my Bow-it-All for making perfect bows. I also used some leather cord threaded
through the lace picking up the straps from the image, I just didn’t have any
buckles in my stash so had to go with a ribbon threader instead, which was
silver so got covered in some Rub’nBuff.
I also added Rub’nBuff to the Freckled Fawn embellie I added to the
centre of the bow as I wanted a gold centre but couldn’t find anything in my
stash to suit. The embellies were going
to make this Steampunk but nothing I had in metal suited what turned out to be
more grungy vintage. Despite going off
on a different tangent to what I planned I love how this turned out.
With my lovely big bow I’m entering this in the current 4 Crafty Chicks’ challenge. I’m also entering this in the current Outlawz Paper Ala Mode challenge ‘fancy smancy’, I think with all my added embossed details, the gold trimmed ribbon, lace and bling it is a rather fancy card, even if I haven’t worked out what occasion I’d use it for!
Ingredients:
Copics
Skin E50, E51,
E53 (cheeks R02)
Eyes E23, E27, 0
Lips R24, R46
Hair E29, E31,
E35, E37, E49
Outfit BG93,
BG96, G85, G99, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28
Tattoo G05, G07,
G09, R46, R59, R89
Chalks &
Powders etc
Fran-tage
Embossing Enamel – Aged Black, Aged Green & Aged Scarlet
Embellishments
Delish Ribbon
Threader – Bistro Collection
Inks & Paints
etc
Inkssentials
Emboss It – Clear
Smooch Spritz –
Mossy Mist
Tim Holtz
Distress Ink –Shabby Shutters & Walnut Stain
VersaMarker –
Watermark Pen
Wink of Stella –
Clear, Gold & Silver
Papers
Kaisercraft Art
of Life – Always & Everyday
Ribbons &
Twine etc
Lace from LSS
Sullivans Flat
Leather Thonging – Brown
Stamps
Stampin’ Up! –
You Are Loved (retired)
Challenges
Thanks for
stopping by!