Freestyle

Hello.  Welcome.  Hope this isn't going to be boring for you.  It's another post featuring my new favourite technique by Ellen Vargo.  In my last post I followed her colours closely.  This time I decided to go blue.  This was also inspired by the challenge over at The Greeting Farm which is red, white and blue, but more of that later........

I liked all of Ellen's posts and decided in addition to the background I would take some of the techniques from her tag post.

So I started with 4 blues.  The lightest has been a bit obscured and it was looking very dark before I added the red and then the white.  That brought it back to life. 

Sorry, overexposed but I've included it to show the additions at this stage.  I have stamped with DI Salty Ocean but it doesn't show in the photo.  I used a Hero Arts stamp to add some stripes in white but it was too structured so I knocked it back with a baby wipe.  You can still see them middle top but they are nicely muted now.  I added white dots and some words in black on the LHS.  

 

I cut a piece from the LHS to make this DL card.  I added a red border on two sides.  I wasn't brave enough to use paint so resorted to a red paint marker.  I outlined with white pen.  My Prima Doll stamp is paper pieced and I put lace around the bottom of her skirt.  

 

Here you can see the black word stamping more clearly.  The 18 is diecut in black card and mounted on a metal tag.  I drew a thick black line across the top of her skirt to look like a belt and added a metal butterfly from Korthobby as a buckle.  There are three mini pearls from Storyteller on her alice band and another one in the hole of the tag.  The Gratulerer (Congratulations) is a Kort og Godt stamp.  

My 18th birthday card is joining the fun at

Korthobby Utfordring Januar - Dato, Arstall eller Alder

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Thanks for dropping by.  I have a lot of this backgroud left and some ideas of how to use it so I am sure you will be seeing it again soon.......

Take care.  Keep warm.  Off to check out the latest PaperArtsy post......