FLOWERS OF BEAUTY ON LINEN

Welcome back to Hodgepodge week where you are going to see a little of this and a little of that.   Yesterday I shared a card made with the Herringbone Technique, and today's Card has a pretty display of Flowers of Beauty on "linen".  

This card is bright and very cheery.  The colorful display of flowers and leaves were stamped on white tissue paper.  After stamping the tissue paper was crinkled up tightly, smoothed out a little and then adhered to Basic White cardstock.  The result is a technique that looks like linen.

If you are unfamiliar with the Faux Linen Technique watch the video below to see exactly how it is done.

In the video I talk about the similarities between the Faux Linen Technique and the Faux Silk Technique.  Both of those fabrics have a similar trait -- they tend to wrinkle!  Personally, I tend to avoid clothes made with either of these fabric because of the wrinkling.  And don't they usually have to be dry cleaned as well?  But I do think both techniques make pretty backgrounds for cards.  So, I will just stick to putting my "linen" and "silk" on cards.

The colors used for today's Flowers of Beauty are all from the Brights Color Family Collection -- Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Berry Burst, Flirty Flamingo and Granny Apple Green.  For cards where I want to use many colors, I know that if I pick them all from the same family they will coordinate well together.  So, today we celebrate the Bright Family of colors.

I used a stamp from the Shepherd's Care stamp set to add a few black dots.  I could have used any speckles stamp or just used a Black Stampin' Write Marker to splatter some specs but the Shepherd's Care stamp set was laying on my craft table, so it was handy.

For the inside of the card and the envelope I decorated the corner with more Flowers of Beauty.

The one thing on the front of my card that I wasn't really crazy about was the placement of the leaves.  So for the inside and the envelope, I decided to mask the flowers and then stamp the leaves.  By masking I was able to get mostly leaves with minimal stems.  The masking added a step so it was a little more work, but I liked the result better.  What do you think? Stems or minimal stems.

Use this link to download a PDF Tutorial for today's card.  The tutorial also includes a link to the Faux Linen Technique video on my YouTube Channel so if you download the tutorial you will always be able to easily find the Faux Linen Video.

A list of the products used on the Flowers of Beauty Faux Linen card is shown below.  Don't forget to add tissue paper and a glue stick (or adhesive of your choice) to your list of supplies.

Product List

Flowers Of Beauty Photopolymer Stamp Set [163374]	Shepherd's Care Cling Stamp Set (English) [164300]	Cheerful Daisies Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [161290]	Something Fancy Cling Stamp Set (English) [160416]
Autumn Leaves Dies [162185]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [159229]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Pumpkin Pie 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [105117]
Berry Burst Classic Stampin' Pad [147143]	Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [147094]	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [147086]	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [147052]
Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Black & White 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Gingham Ribbon [156485]	Rhinestone Basic Jewels [144220]
Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]

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