The technique tutorial for today came at a good time.  I needed a push to do this card.  After I had it all started, though, it was *EASY-PEASY*, no really, it was!!  Let me rephrase that, the card part, easy, the roses, now THAT was a bit of work!!  OK, let me show you...

All products used are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated.  The challenge today was to make a shadow box card.  Here is the tutorial on that.  This is the easy part.  You have only 2 pieces of paper (4.25 x 5.5) and they are scored on either end at 1/2 and 1 inches.  I used ruby red and whisper white.  You center your coluzzle on whichever one i going to be your top layer and cut out your oval (circle, square, whatever).  Then line it up over the bottom and stamp your image.  I used the wedding couple from Life's Special Moments.  I watercolored him in with watercolor pencils and a blender pen.  I used 2-way glue to add the dazzling diamonds to her veil and train.  I stamped the small flower from Roses in Winter and the sentiment from last years SAB set Noteworthy on just the part the pops forward.  I then distressed the oval with my cutter kit *love that little tool*. 

Now the hard part.  I was inspired by this card by Andria and decided to check out the tutorial on the Paper Tole Flowers on SCS.  I stamped each layer of the rose from Roses in Winter seperately on watercolor paper in ruby red  The bigger rose, I made 5 layers and the smaller rose is only 3.  The leaves from Natural Beauty are also stamped on watercolor paper and I used my aqua painter to paint them.  The centers are summer sun, pumkpkin pie and then I changed to old olive.  I wanted it to look like fall colors, and then added shadowing with always artichoke.  I started the flowers last night and then put them together this morning.  *PUR-TY*, in my humble opinion.

I had made this as an idea for a wedding invitation, but sorry Kerri, WAAAAAY to labor intensive to make 150 of them.  Maybe you will get it on the wedding day from me for your scrapbook!

Try one of the tutorials today and see what you can come up with.  The paper tole is a bit of work, but *I* think it is very worth the end result, they look so real.  Have fun and happy stamping!!

Comments

[Jennie Harper]

Very pretty shadow box card. I need to try one of those but I have been intimidated by it...
Thanks for sharing.
Jennie