Bamboo Beauty – Caring Thoughts

I decided to play with the Blended Alcohol Technique for this card.

Over at Sunday Stamps (#259), the current challenge is Color and you must pick at least three colors.  As a “Green” girl, I opted for what I determined to be White, Soft Sea Foam, Just Jade and Pool Party.

To create the background paper design, I filled a Stampin’ Spritzer with Isopropyl Alcohol.  I used a (½) sheet of Vellum cardstock (8½” x 5½”).  I started by securing the corners of the Vellum with some washi tape to curb as much curling of the Vellum as possible.  Then I liberally sprayed the Vellum with Alcohol and added a few drops of the Soft Sea Foam, Pool Party and Just Jade ink from the Classic Ink Re-Fills directly to the Vellum and Alcohol wet surface.  Added more Alcohol Spray and moved the ink around by blowing through a Sipping Straw.  More Alcohol, more blowing etc. until I was happy with the overall look and left it to dry.  The Background turned out a little darker than intended as the Just Jade color came out deeper and stronger.  Note: I have both 70% and 91% in Spritzers, so I am not sure which one I used.

I was influenced to create this background as I wanted to cut it up and use it to make the sketch presented by Freshly Made Sketches (#491).

Here is what I created once the Background paper was completed:

Steps:

• Background Panel: (4” x 5¼”) Basic White cardstock.
• Rectangle Panels: (1”), (1⅛”), (1¼”) and (1¼”) The colored Vellum paper cut in to strips (5½”) long.  The panels were secured with washi tape to the Grid Paper straddling the 4” top / bottom line, in the placement that suited me.  Once secured, I chose the Bamboo Stalks and Leaves, from the Bamboo Beauty stamp set and stamped them on to the Vellum panels with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and let it completely dry.  I went with the Bamboo Beauty images because the Vellum turned out to be darker in color than intended and more suited to a singular black image.
• Once dry, the colored panel strips were folded and wrapped around the Basic White Background Panel and secured with Scotch Tape with (⅛”) White space showing.
• Sentiment Label: (1⅛”) Soft Sea Foam cardstock scrap.  The sentiment, Sending CARING thoughts, from the same stamp set was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and die-cut with the small circle die from the Tasteful Labels Dies set.
• Label Accent Mat: (1⅝”) Basic Black cardstock scrap die-cut with the other circle die from the same die set.

The Vellum and Basic White background panel was adhered to a Soft Sea Foam Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) and the Sentiment Label was popped up with Dimensionals so that it would float.

This treatment reminds me of Stained Glass art pieces hanging in front of a lighted window. Quite pretty and I really like how this card turned out.

Entering this card into the Watercooler Wednesday Challenge (#318). Letting someone know that you care about them is always an occasion to send a card.

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

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