Nothing’s Better Than – Chocolate

Hi again!  Last card for today.

Playing with the Just Add Ink (#695); Facebook Colour INKspiration (#162); and Just Us Girls (#720) for the Tuesday Morning (#750) sketch.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Early Espresso cardstock.
• Accent Mat: (3⅞” x 5⅛”) Boho Blue cardstock.
• Background Panel: (3¾” x 5”) Very Vanilla cardstock.
  • A Mask was created by die-cutting the (2⅜” x 3”) Rectangle die from the Nested Essentials Dies set and a piece of Copy Paper.
  • With the Mask in place, the Diamond patterned stencil from the Foursquare Decorative Masks set was set over top and Boho Blue ink was added with a Blending Brush.
  • The Copy Paper Mask with Rectangle Opening was positioned over the Panel and the Cross patterned stencil from the same Masks set was set in position.  The new Basic Beige ink was added to the background with another Blending Brush.
  • The sentiment, Today’s Plan: Consume was stamped with Early Espresso ink as was the word Chocolate from the retired Nothing’s Better Than stamp set.   
• Frame: (2⅜” x 3”) Azure Afternoon cardstock.
  • The frame was created by nesting the (2⅜” x 3”) and (1⅞” x 2⅝”) Rectangle dies from the Nested Essentials Dies set.
• Decoration – Chocolates: Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper scrap.
  • The Bon-Bon Outline image was stamped with Early Espresso ink.
  • The Bob-Bon In-Fill image was then stamped, also with Early Espresso ink.
  • Note: the image came out a little bit faded, so I outlined the Bon-Bons with the Early Espresso Stampin’ Write Marker and used the retired Dark Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blendabilities Marker to color in the Bon-Bons.
  • The Bon-Bons were then fussy-cut with Paper Snips.

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch.  The Bon-Bons were popped up with Dimensionals.  As the colors read a little masculine, I chose not to add a ribbon.

Happy Easter!  And yes, I did consume some chocolate today, did you?

Thanks for spending a bit more of your time with me today.   Cheers,  Jolanda!

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