Quite the opposite

Finally, a card finished and a chance to post again!  I’m sorry for the silence here, but life has been busy this week with both expected and unexpected events.   My last post was titled “Simple indeed” and was just that, simple.  This card, as my title suggests, was not so simple.  I made a couple of attempts before creating this background, wanting both red and gold vines.  Birds in Vines is my second Flourishes set, which has been sitting waiting for an opportunity to come out and play!

I started by brayering the background in Real Red and added some Elegant Eggplant brayering on the edges.  I then stamped the vine in versamark and real red and embossed in clear.  As the gold vine was to be the main image I stamped that in versamark over the top and then embossed in Gold e.p.  I then deepened the background colour with some sponging in both red and eggplant.  The gold bird is embossed and a bit of vine stamped over in eggplant on the sponged background.  The card base is brushed gold and the matting real red.  I was aiming for an oriental fabric feel to the card so I fiddled around with my thin red ribbon until I came up with the final arrangement, made up of two pieces crossed and a third folded, and looped through itself to make the tassel piece.

Thanks for dropping in, I hope the gap will not be so long before I next post, but we are entering a busy performance season for my girls so stamping time may be hard to come by.

Have a Happy Easter

Supplies:

Stamps: Birds in Vines (Flourishes)
Inks:  Elegant Eggplant, Real Red, versamark
Cardstock: Brushed Gold, Real Red, Whisper White
Also: Clear e.p.,Gold e.p., Thin red satin ribbon, brayer