Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #91 - Three different techniques

The latest challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers is hosted by Sharon, who has chosen the theme 'Pick Three Different Techniques'

Sharon has taken inspiration from her youngest daughter's recent 3rd birthday and therefore would like to see 3 different techniques on your card or project. Take your pick of 3 from the following list and be sure to state which 3 you've used:

Embossing (wet or dry)
Distressing
Masking
Making your own flowers
Paper piecing/patchwork
Shrink plastic

The three techniques that I chose are Dry Embossing, Masking & make your own flowers.

For my card I knew I wanted to create some kind of Fairytale scene, so started by picking the digital stamp 'Soya takes a nap' by Milk Coffee Stamps, who are one of the sponsors this week, then coloured her up with Promarkers and cut her out.

I then used a Sweet Poppy 'Love Tree' stencil to emboss the tree, I tried several attempts directly onto the card but was left with the stencil outline embossed too, so I decided to cut it out and then add to the background.

The background was done with some masking and laying down some Adirondack inks with my blending tool, then I used a Lavinia Stamps mini stamp to add the flowers.

The Butterflies are punched in velum and the flowers are cut with Cricut 'Flower Shoppe'.

I'm not sure that I am entirely happy with how the masking turned out and I really think if I had managed to emboss the tree on to the main card, I would be happier.

This weeks challenge is sponsored by

MILK COFFEE DIGITAL STAMPS

WITH A PRIZE OF 5 DIGIS FROM THEIR STORE

And also by

SIR STAMPALOT

with this fabulous prize:-

One Kit containing 5 small pots of the new Fran-tage Mica Fragments from Stampendous

Colours include: 

Pearlized

Guilded

Bronze

Tarnished

Tea Stained
Each pot contains 7.5grams

Challenges I would like to enter are:

Pink Gem Challenge Blog - Things with Wings

Brown Sugar Challenge - Angels & Fairies

Creative Corner - Things with Wings
Challenges4everybody - Anything Goes
No Matter Which Challenges - Things with Wings
Stamping Sensation - Embossing & Texture



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