Happy 4th of July and a Challenge For You

Hey Everybody,

The U.S. is celebrating its historic 250th anniversary, the monumental semiquincentennial since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.  Happy 4th of July! Enjoy your time however you spend today and stay safe.

 

  Lisa's challenge is to use wild animals on our card. You can find the challenge here.  

I stamped the image with versafine black ink and colored with Zig real brush markers. This is a retired Stampin' UP! set called, Wild & Sweet. I dry embossed a white piece of cardstock with the Stampin' Up! embossing folder called, Elegant Eucalyptus. I used a blending brush behind the koala and around the edges of the arch. I colored the eucalyptus on the debossed side of the paper with a blending brush and peacock ink, then pulled basic gray ink over the cardstock for the black-out technique. I added the burlap ribbon then added the image and sentiment with dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment in pretty peacock and used the small oval punch. I added pebbled path gems to the card. The image panel was added to a pretty peacock base. This will go on a dinner tray at a local hospital.

Keywords: WT1108

Stamps: Stampin' Up!-Wild & Sweet, Unity Stamps- Danglin'

Paper: white, pretty peacock

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Versafine black, basic gray, pretty peacock

Accessories: pebbled path gems, Blending brush, Stampin' Up!-burlap ribbon, dimensionals, small oval punch, Zig clean color real brush, Jillian Vance Designs-stitch dot arched backdrop dies, Stampin' Up!-Elegant Eucalyptus embossing folder

Techniques: dry embossing, black-out technique, coloring

What do you have in your stash that you could use for this challenge? What kind of wild animals have you collected?

One thing I realized by looking at this card was, I don't use much gray on my cards. How about you? Do you use gray a lot?  Are there any other colors you don't use much? I know if I look in my cardstock drawers, I'd find some folders filled with scraps and others filled with many full pieces.

I can see lots of scraps in the blackberry bliss and old olive folders. I have lots of full pieces in real red and Basic Gray or Pumpkin Pie.

Some colors are used seasonally like red and green for Christmas or pumpkin pie with reds and yellows for fall and Thanksgiving cards.

I think I need to start looking at the drawers with more of the fuller sheets of cardstock and begin to use them more often.

I think I get caught up in getting my designer series paper first, then choosing colors from that paper. Now that I see that I favor some colors I'm going to look at my designer series papers and see if I can begin to use my less-used cardstock. No sense buying it if it's going to sit in the drawer.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Happy Fourth of July.

Blessings,

Sue