Today I was able to play with an SU level one hostess set that I hadn't used before, Oh So Lovely. What a fun little set! It reminds me of the retired Art of Life with its texture stamp, but the fine double lines give it a great up-to-date look. Although I thought that the poppies would be my favorite stamp in this set because if their stem's beautiful curve, the berries were actually my favorite once I started coloring. I used a waterbrush and SU reinkers to color the images after stamping the texture in white craft ink on a Kraft background.
Card sizes for this trio are 3" x 6" closed. They are a little smaller than I normally make to fill the tag envelopes, but making them 6" long rather than 6-1/2" long allowed me to cut four long cards from one sheet of 12" x 12" Kraft card stock. Backgrounds are Purely Pomegranate, Groovy Guava, and Blue Bayou. From left to right again, focal images are matted in So Saffron, Soft Sky, and Wild Wasabi. I sewed a tiny tag on on and mounted the matted focal image on foam tape to give it a bit more dimension. I tried tying some stitched grosgrain on, but it seemed to clutter an otherwise clean card, so I snipped it off. Background is wheeled with the SU mistletoe wheel; the mistletoe seemed light and airy enough to work with these images, and it saved me from having to try to piece a background stamp together to cover almost 6" of length on that layer. The only non-SU things that I used were some Spica glitter pens by Copic. I love the ultra-fine glittery look that these pens give, as well as the smoothness with which they write! I used melon to color the flower stems and clear to enhance the flower highlights.
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