The snow is finally almost melted, and it's time to start thinking spring... and maybe even summer! And Memory Box's monthly challenge for April (I know, down to the wire!), certainly fits the bill. I've been busy designing and kitting for an upcoming class here, locally, so the blog has been quiet... but the cardmaking has been ongoing.
I truly loved Memory Box's most recent release, and some of the dies I used today were new to me, and I was glad to put them to work! My main dies were Memory Box's Jumbo Peony and Fine Cut Leaves. I applied double sided tape (Sookwang) to the back of some gold paper foil and white paper, inked the white paper to make it pink, and then die cut a peony out of both. I then (with a fair amount of effort), removed the gold peony outline and applied it to a separate blue inked paper, and, like assembling a puzzle, put the pink peony petals back into the gold outline. I die cut Memory Box's fine cut leaves out of the same adhesive-backed gold foil paper, and placed them around the peony (I can't imagine chasing all those little leave inserts and replacing with green, so I just kept them uniformly gold).
I'm not sure if the photo really does the shine and sparkle of the peony justice. I added highlights to the peony petals with primsacolor pencil and then gave the entire flower a good coating of Wink of Stella (clear). The blue distress oxide background was lightly spritzed with water to add a little variation to the shade and interest to the background.
I stamped and fussy cut part of the sentiment, applied some gelly rol clear pen, and stamped the rest on the background. Applied to a Memory Box/Birch Press black licorice card base... good to go!
Materials:
Paper: Gold foil paper, Neenah - Solar white
Stamps/Inks: Distress inks - worn lipstick and picked raspberry, Distress Oxides - Mermaid Lagoon and Tumbled Glass; MFT - black licorice ink, Winnie & Walter - Sending You
Cutting/Embossing: MB - Fine Cut Leaves and Jumbo Peony
Misc: Water spritzer, clear wink of stella, double sided adhesive - Sookwang, clear gelly roll pen
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