Wednesday, April 3, 2013

White Embossed Background for ADFD


Yes, I know Easter has passed but for someone who just got her tree down last week I think this is pretty good.  You think I'm kidding, don't you?  Well, at least I made my resolution deadline.  (BARELY!)  LOL  I've been wanting to play at A Day For Daisies and keep missing the boat.  The current challenge is use a white embossed background and I have sooo many embossing folders I just couldn't decide so I tried a trick with a new die from Spellbinders I got at the Expo.  Instead of using the cutting plate, I ran it through my Grand Calibur with the embossing mat and plate only and got this cool effect.  Now what?


Choosing the image was equally hard.  I have hundreds, literally, but this adorable Bunny Ears won out.  I did a minimal of coloring with Copics and paper pieced the little jammies.  Had to have a fuzzy bunny, so I paper pieced him, as well, by printing again, fussy cutting, running him through the Xyron right side down and flocking before gluing to the image.  Added a mini pom pom tail too.  I wanted a panoramic egg effect so I again used Spellbinders to cut the egg and window, embossed and glittered it to look like sugar.  I snipped a punched strip and carefully taped it around the back for the decorative edge.  I used the same punch (Stampin' Up) for the card mat.

My plan as to keep the card mostly white so I dug in my stash and found a Spellbinders Easter border I've had for ages but never used.  The color was added with my Copics while it was still in the die.  More succesful had I pulled out my air compressor and sprayed, but with a light touch I managed not to have it bleed too much.  Finally I popped the elemants for a little more interest and added a sentiment with Alpha Beads.  Thanks for hangin' in there, I'm awfully chatty today.

I"m also entering this in the DL Art Thankful Thursday Spring Challenge, Going Grey with Scrap-Creations Easter Challenge, Simon Says Stamp and Show Very Strict Anything Goes Challenge, the Outlawz Monday Greeting Card Challenge Anything Goes, and Papertake Weekly Anything Goes and The Crafty  Bloggers Network Anything Goes April Challenge.

15 comments:

  1. Hello Donna. Happy to see you're still a challenge addict (and rightfully so!). Love this card.

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  2. This is so sweet and pretty and feminine. I love it. A little diferent then your ATC's.
    Thank you for joining my DL.ART Thankful Thursday #106 Spring challenge, Have a great day, my friend
    DIANA L.
    http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com

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  3. Gorgeous card! Love all the details you added. I seriously need to get me some of the letter beads, love them.

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  4. Oh my, this is awesome! Love all the embossing, and your image, but I really love those baby beads. That's what I'd call them. So sweet!!

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  5. Wonderful card, love the image and the Bunny Hugs beads. Thank you for joining us for the Crafty Bloggers Network challenge.

    Sylvia xx
    Design Team

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  6. BEAUTIFUL WORK! Thanks so much for linking up with us over at Simon Says Stamp and Show this week! - Ashli :)

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  7. Beautiful sugar egg with a cute bunny in it

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  8. Well, Ike said that Easter is later there so pretend it was for that. I am smiling about your tree! Your card is really gorgeous those pyjamas are so cute and the bunny is fab. Vee xx

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  9. Donna, this is the sweetest Easter card! When I was younger, I used to insist there be one of those sugar eggs in my basket every Easter. My mom would buy the biggest one she could find and there was always that fun little scene inside. You nailed it perfectly! Oh, and cool embossing on that background! How is it I don't have any of those Spellbinder's folders? I didn't even know they existed! Life in a no-shopping bubble sure does suck! LOL!

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  10. Okay....so I just Googled the Spellbinder's folders and came back to reread your post. Duh! You clearly said it was a die, not an embossing folder. So now I'm off to investigate these dies (cutting plates?) Damn, I hate not being up on all this crap!

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  11. BLAH! NOW I get it! Double duh! The cutting plate is the freakin' thing you use in the machine! I swear, I'm getting blonder by the minute. OMG, love those Spellbinders dies! I had no idea there were all these gorgeous new additions.

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  12. This is such a precious card Donna! I love the sugary glitter and I love the fuzzy bunny!! I would want to hug him too! lol I love the alpha beads, don't know where you get them but I sure love them! Hugs!

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  13. such a sweet image, and the embossing to embellish is just perfect.

    thank you for joining us at Crafty bloggers Network this month
    Claire x
    (DT)

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