Mother's Day Card - One of a kind

Hello!

The cold weather has finally begun to assert its dominance this week so I've been trapped at home for the past few days with a tummy bug leaving me a lot of time to do crafty things.  Seeing as Mother's Day is only a couple of weeks away I have been busy crafting some goodies for my Mother and my Nana.
Here is today's card:

Materials:

• White and dark blue card
• Blue ink (salty ocean and peacock feathers distress ink) and embossing ink (versamark)
• Sponges
• Silver embossing powder (ranger)
• Three doily stamps (couture creations) and a 'one of a kind' stamp (sullivans)
• Glimmer mist (or just pearlized paint mixed with some water in a spray bottle like I used)
• Background stencil (memory box)
• Corner rounding punch (fiskars)

Directions

1. Cut your card base from the white card.  Cut a 2cm wide strip from the blue.
2. Stamp and emboss the three doily stamps on to the blue card and cut them out leaving a small border around the edges.  Stamp and emboss the sentiment on to the strip of blue card.
3. Secure the stencil over the card front with some low tack tape.  Using the two blue inks, sponge the colour through the stencil.  Before you remove the stencil, lightly spray the card front with the 'glimmer mist' (Be careful not to add too much like I did or areas of your stenciled design will run together as distress inks react to water).  Leave to dry or heat set.
4. Adhere one of your doilies to the card base at the bottom center.  Using foam adhesive, place the sentiment strip over the top portion of the first doily.  Adhere the second doily with foam above the sentiment strip, slightly overlapping it.  Add the final doily with foam again on the right side of the sentiment.  Round the top two corners

It didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted it to because of the stenciled image running together a bit, in all fairness its only the second time I've worked with distress inks so I'm still learning how to use them. I'm certainly happy with the outcome anyway and I'm still supporting slightly blue fingers because of it!

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Till next week

Stacey

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