Before I get to the fun with my creation.... be sure to check out what the other SS gals cooked up! You can check out Sharon's challenge by clicking.... HERE!
Pat Adam, August Guest Designer -- My mom... YEAH!!
Janine
Jennifer
AJ
Tammy
Deb
Barbara
Jenny
This week, fellow Flourishes SDT gal pal Stacy Morgan is de-stressing with distressing! Mix that up with a few polka dots and... this is what you've got!
I used the brand new Cherries and Peaches set from Flourishes. I love this set! I stamped my cherries using permanent black ink onto Flourishes Classic Ivory and then colored them up with the Poppy and Fields Copic collections packaged by Flourishes! After I added the color, I also added some Crystal Lacquer to make my cherries shine!From there, it's simply matting and having some fun with my layout! For my "distressing" I actually took some rustic polka dot paper and then sanded it to really mute the color and make it look aged! It's a different way to distress but I love the vintage feel!
You can also see that I stamped my cherries a second time and then lined it up for a kind of different effect. I also used some Tea Dye Distress Ink (Ranger) on the strip that I put my sentiment on to sponge on an antique feel. Add some paper piercing and a fun sheer polka dot ribbon and... DONE!You'll have to check out Stacy's wonderful tutorial over on the Flourishes Newsletter as she shows us the different levels of distressing! And, be sure to hop on over to the rest of the DT's places in blog land to see what they cooked up!
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Faith Hofrichter
Latisha Yoast
Laura Fredrickson
Leslie
Thanks so much for stopping by! I'll see you back here soon!
26 comments:
Love your card and the wonderful set you used. Got mine today and can't wait to use it. Love your doing the polka part of it too. Mom
Lovely! I so love polka dots and boy does this card fit the bill!
Oh my goodness, Julie!! This is just amazing! I LOVE how the main image continues off the main image panel onto the background panel! Stunning!!
Love this Julie! Great technique with the focal image and the sanding adds wonderful interest.
Beautiful Card Julie!
Love the colors and the distressing, oh and your use of the crystal lacquer!
Thank you for sharing!
This is amazing Julie!! I love that set too!!
Hope you have a great weekend.
LOL to you!!
Great card, Julie! Love all your polka dots and distressing. The Crystal Lacquer is a great touch.
Have a great weekend!
Awesome card Julie!! LOVE how you did your cherry panels ... very clever and looks great! You do such a good job with these "fruity" images!! Very inspiring you are!!! Have a great weekend! Family reunion weekend for me ... yippee!!
love the design of this card and the colors awesome
Hugs
Norine
This is so pretty with the beautiful piercing and placement of your images! I love every little detail!
OMFG! The way you stamped those cherries is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Julie, this is stunning! Fabulous design!
Nothing like making me see spots first thing in my morning, Missy!
LOVE those cherries and how you did the offset with the leaves under them and the gloss. Yes, sanding does definitely count as distressing, so you didn't cheat this time. Off to see THE guest designer's stuff...
What a fabulous cherry design Julie! I love the botanical cherries--the stamped off panel behind is a smart touch!
Looking yummy! I like the shine you added to the cherries!
gorgeous Julie-love the way the image comes off the paper!
One of the prettiest and mose craetive uses of this set that I've seen! I love all the elements from the paper treatments to the yummy glazed cherries. Fantastic layout too Julie!
Stunning card. The distressed paper is perfect and the coloring on the cherries is amazing. Love the spotlight technique here.
Outstanding card today! So much detail and it is fantastic!
Love love love love love this card...I kind of like it, a lot lol!
I hope you are having a wonderful day!
hugs
latisha
Oh, I LOVE polka dots! And what a cool way to do spotlighting! Fabulous card, Julie!
Another beauty Julie!!!! Now I have that song in my head,gee thnaks,lol!!!
Gorgeous card -- love those cherries and dots!!!! Yummy!!!
Perfect in every way, Julie!!! Love the polka dot paper and I love the way you stamped your image twice! I'll be CASEing that, LOL!!!
Love this! Your focal is especially appealing. Wonderful design and great execution!
Wow, this is fabulous how you did those cherries!!
Clever and yummy!
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