Hydrangea Hinge Card

I stepped out of my usual style box to make this pretty hinge card using the Hydrangea set from Kitchen Sink Stamps. It's much more vintage-y and distressed looking than my usual projects, but I saw this technique, called Aged Tiles, in the most recent Technique Junkies newsletter and thought it would work well with these images.

Since the images on her sample cards were so pretty and vibrant, I followed Maria's "recipe" for ink combinations for the flowers and leaves, using a few substitutions for colors not in my collection--yet! I did some masking with sticky notes to overlap the flowers and leaves. I added one of the butterfly images, too, placing it so it looked like it was just about to land on one of the blooms. The clear stamps make this so easy to do!

I placed the image on a hinged cardfront. This was so easy to do with my Scor-Pal (thanks again, Michele, David, Jake, and Zach!). I tied a pretty piece of ribbon through two holes punched in the hinged section to finish off the card.

If you visit SCS, today is a special occasion over there. It's the second anniversary of the awesome Weekly Inkling email newsletter. If you're a subscriber, be sure to look out for some fun giveaways. I hear there will be tons of prizes, including some great stuff from Kitchen Sink Stamps . . .

Materials Used:
Hydrangea set (Kitchen Sink Stamps); Purely Pomegranate and Not Quite Navy cardstock, Creamy Caramel Classic ink (Stampin' Up!); white cardstock (Papertrey Ink); copper brads (Making Memories); ivory satin ribbon (Target); brown eyelets (American Crafts); makeup sponge wedge

dark pink flower-Step #1 Pink Grapefruit (VersaMagic), Step #2 Pearl Poppy (stamp off 1x) (Brilliance), Step #3 Purple Hydrangea (VersaMagic) and #4 Graphite Black (stamp off 1x) (Brilliance)

for the LT pink flower: Step #1 Pink Grapefruit (stamp off 1x) (VersaMagic), Step #2 Pink Grapefruit (VersaMagic), Step #3 Malted Mauve (VersaMagic) and #4 Pearl Crimson (Brilliance).

for the DK blue flower: Step #1 Sea Breeze (VersaMagic), Step #2 Ocean Depth (VersaMagic), Step #3 Night Sky (VersaMagic) and #4 Graphite Black (Brilliance)

for the leaves: Step #1 Certainly Celery ink (stamp off 1x), Certainly Celery ink, Old Olive ink (Stampin' Up!)

for the butterfly: Step #1 Barely Banana (SU!), Step #2 Pumpkin Pie (SU!), Step #3 Noir Black(Palette)