Good morning! I hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend and that your week is ending with a 
. I don’t understand what happened yesterday, but I actually got a second project made! I KNOW . . . I must have a fever!
When I was at CHA, I was talking to AJ Otto in the Unity Booth about their Iron Orchid line. I loved them! They remind me of five to six years ago when I enjoyed over-stamping and didn’t use designer paper at all. Remember those days when we tried to see how many background stamps we could use on one card? Those were and remain some of my favorite sets to this very day, and the Iron Orchid line remind me of those sets.
Today’s card is made with the Iron Orchid Provencial Collection – Carte Postale from Unity. I had so much fun with this card.
Now before you ask about the designer paper, its some very old paper I had in my stash that was about the only thing I had on hand to work with the colors I wanted to use.
The flower was stamped on watercolor paper and then water colored with Distress Re-Inkers (Peeled Paint, Crushed Olive, Worn Lipstick, Mustard Seed). That image was then die cut/embossed with Spellbinders™ Circle Nestabilities and placed on top of a layer die cut/embossed with Fleur De Lis Doily Accents (which the border was also die cut with).
The two papers behind the flower image started out as tags. Using the Wrinkle Free Distress Technique with Vintage Photo and Bundled Sage inks, the tags were colored up and stamped with the images in Coffee Archival. Of course, five to six years ago I didn’t have the distress inks and would have used a sea sponge instead to make the background. Now the sea sponge . . . that’s a great background and one I should do again just for the heck of it!
Once again I used my new favorite . . . seam binding . . . which I misted with either really watered down Vintage Photo or Tea Dye. I honestly don’t know what was mixed up in the mini mister when I grabbed for it.
Well that’s all for today! I’m off for the annual mammy-gram and hopefully lunch with my mom and sister.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Product Used:
