Another Color Blocking Example

I remembered that I had another color blocking example from my Splitcoast gallery! This one is a card I had created for my oldest daughter's birthday party at Color Me Mine. It was fashioned after another post I had seen on Splitcoast, but it demonstrates another use of color blocking nicely, this time leaving the black gutter in between the color blocks. For the main image, I stamped the perfume bottles from It's a Girl Thing, watercolored the image (although for some reason my classic black decided to run, when it should have been permanent after I let it dry before watercoloring). I then cut out a piece of a Terrifically Tacky Tape sheet, and added microbeads. Thanks for looking, and have a great rest of your weekend!

Stamp Simply Challenge #29

I was checking out some of my favorite stamping blogs today and on Sharon Johnson's No Time to Stamp blog, she featured her Stamp Simply Challenge #29 - Color Blocking. Like Sharon, I love the neat and orderly look color blocking gives to a card, but I don't use it often. I remembered an early card I had made when I first started stamping. One of the very first SU! sets I got was Nature's Wonders. I didn't have any SU! paper at that time, but had loads of other scrapbooking paper, so I used my Creative Memories square punch and two shades of teal paper to create the color blocking background. I had found this beautiful blue-green glitter that worked well with the teal paper I'd chosen, so I experimented with making my own embossing powder by taking a small sample of the glitter and adding clear embossing powder to it. It worked pretty well! I stamped my main image of the sand dollar on vellum with my VersaMark pad, sprinkled on my homemade EP, and heat set it. I trimmed the vellum around my image, added some non-SU! teal brads I had to attach it to the card, and then added the sentiment with a non-SU! stamp I had, which I believe was embossed with black detail embossing powder (I no longer have the card to check it for sure). The card was originally posted to my Splitcoast Gallery back in August of 2005. I did another version of the card using orange tones, but the teal one is my favorite! Thanks for looking!