Thursday, May 10, 2012

CC2 - #4 - Graduation Time

I've missed the past couple challenges that Linda Ledbetter has sent out into blog land for the Compendium of Curiosities 2 Challenge, but not this week!! For new folks, this is all about Tim Holtz and his amazing teaching book, Compendium of Curiosities #2 which you can purchase here. This week it was about faded layers which he describes on page 43.

After seeing Linda's piece, a big ole' light bulb went off in my head about using die cuts with mask material. So I set out to make a very sweet girl a graduation card.



I started with a piece of manilla paper cover stock and applied Evergreen Bough, Shabby Shutters, and Peeled Paint distress inks to the bottom portion of the paper. On the top I used the new Shaded Lilac, Spun Sugar, Stormy Sky, Broken China, and Tumbled Glass distress inks....very lightly. Next I used the tall grass embossing folder on the bottom of the piece. I laid down my new mask of the branch tree and mostly used the same colors on top of the mask to get a nice blend and a faded picture of the tree. I was careful to avoid the bottom of the tree and used a little sponge finger dauber to color the top of the grass. Next I put some picket fences on one Tim's stamps from the Floral Tattoo collection for a bit of extra interest on the background.

Then came the fun part!!


I used the Tattered Floral Garland die cut and cut out a bunch of the smallest leaves and flowers. I'm really into beads lately, so with my trusty Scotch adhesive in hand, I glued down beads for the flower centers.

I used one of Tim's new kilt pins to attach a heart, a muse token which says Knowledge, and a Dream charm. They seemed like a good combination for someone headed off to Arizona next year for college.


Finally I used one of Wendy Vecchi's stamps for the sentiment. Now I all I have to do is write the inside and slip her a few bucks!! Tis the season.

5 comments:

  1. Sara this is so pretty what fabulous details and I love those charms,well done.
    Have a nice weekend Hugs Elaine

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  2. Sara, it is absolutely gorgeous, so much to look at and beautifully embellished.

    Thanks so much for the congrats, you are very kind to mention it. I am still on a bit of a high, it is the first thing I have properly won and to get it from Tim Holtz is just amazing! Thanks again. Hugs, Anne x

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  3. Beautiful! Love the flowers and all that cool hanging stuff.

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  4. Oh, Sara, this is gorgeous! I'm so glad you were able to join the challenge-- you did an absolutely masterful job on the Faded Layers, and created such a lovely graduation card. I have no doubt the young lady will be thrilled to receive it!

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  5. Hi Sara, what a lovely card the overall effect is so delicate and pretty Happy crafting Toni x

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