Hi

Here’s my card for this week’s Muse challenge. I took my inspiration from the card’s layout and soft watercolor style look.

For my version, I heat embossed a bunch of dots from Papertrey Ink’s Sketched Shapes stamp set in white on a white panel. To bring out the white on white dots, I used ink daubers and yellow, green, and teal inks over the panel. I was originally going to use a pink ink instead of the blue since there was pink in Therese’s card, but I decided that the pink might be too much of a contrast with the yellow and green.

I edged the strip with a turquoise cardstock strip, then adhered it to a green card base with foam tape. The card base was trimmed to be a little narrower than a standard A2 size so that the panel would extend beyond the edges of the card base. Now that I look at the card again, I wish I’d left the card base just a tiny bit wider . . . I finished the design by stamping the “hi” sentiment from the Bubble Talk set above the embossed panel in teal ink directly on the green card base.

Materials Used:
Sketched Shapes and Bubble Talk stamp sets, Simply Chartreuse and Hawaiian Shores cardstock (Papertrey Ink); white cardstock, white embossing powder (Michaels); Memento Dandelion, Pear Tart, and Teal Zeal inks (Tsukineko); foam tape