It has been a busy few weeks!! I am working on my cards for September a little later than usual but fortunately these took less time than I expected!! I went to Splitcoast Stampers for inspiration and found this card which led me to this tutorial for Quick and Easy Bokeh with Dawn Woleslagle! I was in!! I had these alcohol ink backgrounds sitting on my desk from my visit with my sister a couple of weeks back and thought they would do the job perfectly!! I made myself a circle stencil using vellum and punches and used my Brilliance Moonlight white ink pad to sponge through the openings!! I am very happy with the results!! I dug out hearts that coordinated from my stash and created the greetings digitally using a scroll from CLKER which I modified by removing the ferns. I added the greetings in different fonts and laser printed a half sheet. To create my cards, I trimmed my background to just less than a quarter sheet after they were dry. I mounted them to coordinating cardstock and adhered my layered hearts using 3D foam tape. I fussy cut my greetings, gave them a colourwash with watercolour and glued them just below the hearts using yet more 3D foam tape.
It feels good to be back in my craft room though all the family time and berry picking was also very enjoyable!!
Therese
