Friday, January 28, 2011

Friends with Flair: Be Mine

It's finally Friday--and time for Friends with Flair! I made this Valentine's Day easel card using Unity's City of Love kit for the latest All Things Unity challenge. It's been a while since I've done one of these--I'd forgotten how fun they are to make!

I made a little scene by combining the kit's images. The buildings are set at the bottom, popped up with dimensional dots. I shaded them with a pale blue Copic marker to make the white a little less bright. The clouds are paper pieced with white cardstock and covered with Crystal Stickles for some sparkle. The blimp is stamped on a scrap of patterned paper from My Mind's Eye State of the Heart Collection Kit and popped up with thicker dimensional dots. Love having these in two different depths to add interest to a design! The panel is zig zag stitched to the red mat underneath for a fun detail. I used redline tape to attach the completed panel to the card base.

The card's base is dressed up with a dotted pattern from the same MME collection kit as I used for the blimp. So that the card would stand upright, I ran a strip of red faux suede ribbon across the base. I slipped a piece of a Labels 4 panel, stamped with the kit's "be mine" sentiment, underneath the ribbon's edge. A red button, tied with red baker's twine, is attached to the ribbon as a decorative element and helps to keep the card upright at the same time.

Be sure to stop by the Unity blog for the complete list of Friends with Flair players. You don't want to miss out on a chance to win some free stamps!

Materials Used:

other: Soft Sky and Cherry Cobbler cardstock (Stampin' Up!); white cardstock (Taylored Expressions); Rhubarb marker (Memento); red button (Papertrey Ink)

23 comments:

  1. ooohhh this is super fabulous! Love the whole scene, and such a great tip about coloring the dimensional dots to match.

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  2. Lots of wonderful detail in this. Great job!

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  3. Your card is so cool! I love how you did the blimp! Very cute!

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  4. LOVE this! Gotta make one of these easel cards.

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  5. Fabulous card. Love the stitching

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  6. What a fun card -- great city scene!

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  7. oh, my, LOVE the little scene you've been here, lori! thanks so much for joining us at all things unity:)

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  8. Great Card! Love the cityscape with the blimp above it! Lovely card!

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  9. So GREAT! I love the scene that you created:)

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  10. LOVE the city and blimp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  11. OMG....this is so cute!!!!! Now...I have to get that stamp set out this weekend!!! hugs, Katrina

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  12. Love this little scenic card..this rocks!!

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  13. OMGosh! This is super adorable. I just love everything about this inspiring card. Thanks for playing along with ATU!

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  14. oh wow, this is fantastic! I adore it.

    lisa a.

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  15. Wow! This is fantastic! I want to go to this fab city of love...on a blimp! Totally frame-worthy!

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  16. Hey!! Another awesome card! Did you see that you won the January prize from ATU?? I don't think I still have your address, so if you'll email it to me, I'll get your stamps right out! Congrats and thanks for playing along!!

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  17. OHHHHHHHH! LORI!! This is super cute! I love the colors and the papers and the STAMPS of course;) I love this easel card! FAB job! Thanks for joining in the fun and playing along with us over at All Things Unity:}

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