Wednesday 22 June 2016

Perfect Distress

For today's card, I combined homework for the Creative Chemistry 101 online card class with a few fun challenges in blogland.


Wish you could see the shimmer of the perfect pearls. Here's a close-up:


I started by creating a perfect distress panel using some of my new distress inks (kit #15 plus Twisted citron from kit #14) and Perfect pearls. After that I die cut the oval (Die'sire) and one of the Wild Garden dies by Julie Ebersole (Essentials by Ellen). I cut the garden die again from a panel that I had heat-embossed using Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder and inlaid all of my elements onto another oval panel from white cardstock. I stamped the sentiment (from Winnie & Walter's Happiest of Holidays by Evelin T. Designs) in black archival and mounted my panel onto fog cardstock (SSS). To finish off, I added a few sequins from the Muted Metals mix from Lucy's little things.

Challenges:
CAS Mix Up June - Stamping and die cuts + choice (smooshing, perfect pearls, heat embossing)
Winnie & Walter - Sharing the love featuring Essentials by Ellen - day 2 Sentimental
Taheera's rainbow challenge at the Winnie & Walter blog
HLS Anything goes with dies - June anything goes
Virginia's View - 22 All about colours (Summer)



 






13 comments:

  1. WOW! Gorgeous card Marianne. Love the beautiful mix of colours for your background. Love the liquid platinum embossed flower -- so pretty. Thanks so much for sharing with us at CAS Mix Up! xx

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  2. OMG...Gorgeous example of holes you can mix CAS with mixed media. TFS your beauty Marianne and joining us at CAS Mix Up. Hugs, Nancy

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  3. "Perfect distress"... for a moment I was wondering what that felt like! Perfect is certainly the right term when it comes to your card - stunning!

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  4. Love this shimmery, artsy oval, Marianne! What beautiful colors! Love that sentiment too! Beautiful font! Thanks so much for sharing with us at CAS Mix Up!

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  5. Je blijft me verbazen. Dit is zooo mooi. En in een ovaal uitgewerkt, prachtig. XXX Ien☀️

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  6. This is so beautiful! Love that beautiful background.

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  7. wowzers! That background is incredible!

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  8. This is gorgeous! I always thought those TH techniques were too 'messy' for my clean style, but you've shown perfectly how to combine them! Love this!

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  9. Now this is called perfect CAS , I love the background very much here, thanks for joining us at HLS.

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  10. This is terrific, Marianne! I love the background you created!

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  11. Love the background!
    Thank you for sharing with Happy Little Stampers!
    Susan
    Calling All Crafters! – My personal Blog!

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  12. Wonderful explosion of colour - reminds me of one of those festivals where they throw the coloured powders in the air! Thanks for spreading The Gossip on w&w's The Gossip Column!

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