Week 4 Recipe Three Squares

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On to this week's challenge and this time it's a recipe.

 3    S   Q   U   A   R   E   S  

Chrissie

For this card I used the Cracked Glass Technique

• I began by stamping the (Joanna Sheen) butterflies  in Versamark onto white card and heat embossing with fine detail, clear embossing powder. 
• I then sponged the images with SU Pretty in Pink ink using a sponge dauber.
• Following this I used some SU Sahara Sand ink to sponge around the images.
• Next I cut out the squares with a Nestie, deciding on the best angle for each one so that the three as a whole would  complement each other.
• The script stamp came next, lining up the three images so that the angle of the script was consistent.
• Then I stamped the whole of each tile in turn with Versamark and heat embossed them with clear  UTEE [ULTRA THICK EMBOSSING ENAMEL](2 layers for each tile).
• The tiles were then put in the freezer for half and hour
• When taken from the freezer they were bent into a curl and straightening them out and bending them in the opposite direction causes the cracking effect.

You can see the effect in this close-up.

And now it's me Mandi

Ok so as you can see for my 3 squares I chose them to be different sizes.
The first one in black, I stamped the image with Versamark then heat embossed it with Silver Dollar.
This was to bring together the 'silver' of the diamante in the flower centre.
The second square is in a pearlised textured card, to match the liquid pearls on the stamen dots in the flower centre. The last small square is embossed with the swiss dots which works with the silver!
No technique, just placement really.

For my flower, I stamped first onto the same white hammer card of my card base, then stamped 2 more images onto white vellum. Whenever I stamped a flower head I feel it looks better to be shaped, whether it has extra layers or not.
I shaped the petals, some to the front [think you can tell on the enlarged piccy] some to the back, using my scissors and thumb. The card layer was only shaped slightly, but the other 2 are more so.
I made sure I shaped all the petals the same way as each other on every layer.

This is the card I made first, but, then made
the black and white one.
But, my buddy Chrissie says I should have still put this on too!
So here you go......

Papers are Pink Petticoat
little tag is Stampin Up







Last week we had 199 fabulous entries, thank you all, maybe next time we'll make the double ton!
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