Make a Card, Send a Card

 Hey Everybody,

This is called a teapot challenge on Splitcoast Stampers. It's a challenge where someone asks for cards to be made for someone. You can make a card and send it or not, you are not obligated even if you play in the challenge. Check out what this challenge is right here.

I knew I wanted to do a colorful background so I used blending brushes on white paper to ink up the background with old olive, pretty peacock and peaceful pine. I put this through my embossing machine with the colored side facing the debossed side.(side without the writing on it.) The embossing folder I used was a Sizzix folder called, Leaves.

 Once it was embossed I pulled a black ink pad over it which is called, the blackout technique.
I stamped the flowers and parrot then colored the parrot with Copic Markers. The parrot is from a Your Next Stamp set called Parrot-dise. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts set called, Hello Luscious.  I fussy cut the images and added them to the card with dimensionals. I added a googly eye to the parrot just to make him a bit cuter.

Keywords: MMTPT934

Stamps: Your Next Stamp-Parrot-dise, Hero Arts-Hello Luscious Collection

Paper: white, granny apple green

Ink: memento tuxedo black, old olive, peaceful Pine, pretty peacock, crushed curry, polished pink, fresh freesia

Accessories: Yellow and clear wink of stella, Copic Markers, blending brushes, wiggly eye, scissors, Sizzix Leaves embossing folder

Techniques: blackout technique, dry embossing, fussy cutting

Here is a video to show you how to do the background technique with the blending brushes then the black-out technique. I used a different embossing folder, but the technique is the same.

Well, I hope that helps you understand the technique. Now you can look through your embossing folders and see what colors you'd like to use to make your background.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Blessings,

Sue