Dude, use your flourishes!

This week’s WT challenge on SCS is different ways to use flourishes.  Trudee is guest hosting so be sure to check out her flourish card too!  After reading JanTink‘s description of the smoking snake from Zoofari (lol–too funny!), the first thing to pop into my mind was to use a swirl for smoke.  I take no conceptual credit whatsoever for this idea.  It’s all hers!

I used Chocolate Chip for the card base (again-I’ve GOT to put that away).  I layered the patterned papers, stamped the swirls on the top rust piece and added the dotted border trim sticker.

Using a Stamp-a-ma-jig, I stamped the letters and mounted that piece onto Chocolate cardstock. 

The snake was stamped on River Rock and cut out.  I colored in his spots and the “cigarette” with a white gel pen, then used a Ruby Red marker for the cigarette tip.

Estimating the placement of the snake and using the Stamp-a-ma-jig once again, I stamped the swirl of “smoke.”  I used a black marker on the swirl stamp so I could omit the bottom curl.  The snake is mounted on thin-cut strips of dimensionals.

Lastly, I added the what’s shakin’ tag.

Thanks for looking!  Have a great day!! 🙂

     Cardstock:  Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, River Rock

     Patterned Paper:  My Mind’s Eye Tres Jolie, Tres Bien “Birthday Boy/Rouge

     Papier”

     Stamps:  Big Deal Alphabet, Zoofari, Sweet Shapes (swirl), Karen Foster Snap

     Stamps (mini formal)

     Ink:  Really Rust, Cool Caribbean, Groovy Guava, Black

     Accessories:  MME Tres Jolie “Birthday Boy” French Border, white gel pen, Black

     and Ruby Red Stampin’ Write markers, dimensionals, Stamp-a-ma-jig

     Finished card size:  6 1/2″ x 3 1/4″