Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge #7

I finally got around to making a card for Mark's Finest Papers: Speedy the Cat's Friend's Challenge #7 found here. The challenge this week is from Liz to create your own background paper. I turned to one of my favorite techniques for doing that. I started with glossy cardstock, and stamped the Baroque Motif's with Versamark, and then heat embossed with white embossing powder. Then I sponged the panel randomly with Groovy Guava and Soft Sky inks. One can only hope that some day SU! will bring these amazing colors back again *sigh*.
The Sarah Kay image was stamped on wc paper and colored with Tombows. I used the Labels four Nestabilites and popped the panels up on dimensionals. I added a few precious snippets of matching ribbon that my SU! demo gave me last year (thanks Deanna) and some Kaiser Blush and Bliss pearls. I also added some tiny Geo Sparklers to the flower centers.
I've been stamping this afternoon while having a new water softener and water heater installed, so I'll have more later.

Carol

11 comments:

Claudine Poch said...

What a sweet card and image. I like groovy guava too. I stocked up before it retired. Thanks for joining us at Speedy's Friends.

JD/ Jill said...

This is absolutely beautiful...great coloring...and I really liked the colors you used...

Joanne Travis said...

What a beautiful bacground you have created for this sweet image. Love this.
Thanks for playing in Speedy's Friends challenge!

Mark's Finest Papers said...

This is GORGEOUS!!!! WOW!!!!! I love it!

Sue from Oregon said...

this background is stunning! Great card and wonderful colors!

Anke said...

Oh Carol this card is so lovely.

Anke

Julia Aston said...

Love your beautiful embossed and sponged bg! thanks for playing with Speedy this week!

Liz Williams said...

This is just beautiful. Thanks for sharing it in Speedy's Challenge this week.

dawnmercedes said...

what a gorgeous bkgr for the Speedy Cat's Friends challenge!

Vicki Dutcher said...

Beautiful multi colored bg!! Thanks for playing with Speedy's Friends!

Joanne (jojot) said...

gorgeous background...sweet image...wonderful coloring...wow