Paper Cuts

Soon I’ll need a birthday card for a friend’s adorable little boy, so I used this week’s color challenge for inspiration.  I needed to use Old Olive, Certainly Celery and Vintage Violet (hmmm…Vintage Violet…had to blow the dust off of that one).   Violet seems to be a difficult color to photograph–for me anyway (total fumbling novice).  In real life, the darker dots look like the violet color and the lighter ones look as if the dots were stamped off once (it’s patterned paper though), but here they just look blue.  I can’t seem to figure out how to adjust for that.  Any tips?

I seem to be on a watercoloring “kick” right now so I used watercolor paper again and an aquapainter to color the airplane after stamping in Stazon Black.  This piece is mounted onto black for a little more definition, then mounted onto Olive with dimensionals in between.  (The dimensionals allowed space to feed the ribbon later.)

The dotted paper is mounted onto black as well (just gives it a little more pop), then I zig-zagged the striped paper onto that.  I attached the airplane image, threaded the ribbon and attached with black brads.  I pinched the ribbon together so it would fit between the prongs of the brads before inserting the brads through the striped paper.  I attached the assembled panel to the Olive card and lastly mounted the sentiment. 

     Cardstock:  SU’s Old Olive, Black, watercolor paper

     Patterned Paper:  My Mind’s Eye Wild Asparagus

     Stamps:  Toy Box, It’s Your Birthday

     Ink:  Black Stazon, Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Vintage Violet

     Accessories:  brads, ribbon, sewing machine, ivory thread

And check out Trudee’s blog today.  She’s giving away some goodies!  Thanks for stopping by!