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February 1


I have been working on a lot of things, the HOF, RS Craft day tomorrow, working out (made it to the gym again today!!), and of course cleaning the house....but I actually found time today to stamp. I needed to prep for a brayer class I have this Saturday night so with that focus I came up with some cute brayer cards. This is the one that Maegan liked the best. I used the All about You set as well as a tiny flower from Something sweet. I brayered my glossy paper with pretty in pink and then taped lines using strips of painters tape. Then I brayered over that with the cotton candy. After that dried for almost long enough I took of the tape and stamped the love, hearts and flowers all over the background in the rose red from the cotton candy pad. I stamped the U on another piece of glossy using the middle of the cotton candy pad and just traced around the edges with a regal rose marker to make it pop. It is hard to see, but I rubbed the edges of the paper with the U across the rose red on the CC pad to give it a border. I stamped Love in black and then....I don't know why but...this card yelled for glitter! I don't usually use a lot of glitter because it gets in my eyes and everywhere else, but this card was really askin for it! So I used the 2-way glue pen to "color" over the U everywhere except where the Love was. Then, I tied it all up with my absoulte Favorite ribbon, the black gingham and popped some dimensionals on the back of the U and voila! Done! Hope you all like it! If you want to see more brayering ideas...pop on over! Now....if I can just figure out how to get these images on here better....

Comments

Michelle Tweedy said…
totally cut card! I love the cotton candy pad! And this is one of my favorite stamp sets. I've been ignoring it during SAB though. I think it's time to pull it out and case your card! Thanks
Michelle
Shari Bielefeld said…
Awesome card, as usual!! You are so talented!! Hope we do this card Saturday! Shari

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