Take Flight 20 – Day 1, Dreams Come True

To kick off Penny Black’s 20 days of stamping inspiration, Therese has made a card using various techniques.  She says, “For this card, I used the background stamp Trailing Beauty (40-207), Fancy Flowers (30-123), and Friendship (30-160).  I have a step-by-step tutorial of how I created this card.”

On black card stock, I stamped the background stamp, Friendship, with Versamark Ink.  The image was then heat embossed with clear powder.

Using Spellbinders dies (Labels 8), I created a frame from the embossed image.

I stamped an image from Fancy Flowers with Onyx Black Versafine ink  on watercolor paper (smooth side).  The image was then heat embossed with clear powder.  I colored the image using watercolor pencils and a watercolor brush.  Because the flowers were quite small, I picked up the color directly from the pencils with my watercolor brush and painted them directly.

I fussy cut the stamped image.

I forgot to take a picture of the next step where I stamped the sentiment.  I cut white card stock with the larger of the 2 dies to create the base for my frame.  I then aligned the black frame on the white card stock and lightly traced the inside part of the frame (top part only) with a pencil.  This way, I can get a better sense on how to center the sentiment inside the frame. I stamped the sentiment from the clear set, Friendship, on the top half of the cards tock and erased the pencil lines.  I distressed the edges of the white card stock with gray ink.  I then adhered the black frame to the white card stock.

I wanted to place the frame on a patterned paper card panel.  I adhered the patterned paper with white cardstock that I colored with gray ink matching the color of the patterned paper.

Once this was all completed, I adhere the frame on a slant and added the flowers and cart image below the sentiment.  Both frame and stamped image were adhered with dimensional foam tape.  Finally, I added colored pearls for added dimension.

Remember as part of Take Flight TWENTY, one lucky stamper will receive TWENTY new stamps from the new catalog!  To be eligible, just leave a comment on any Take Flight Twenty Post, either here on the blog OR on our Facebook page.  Each comment is an entry for the random giveaway, so the more your comment, the more chances you have to win!