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Tuesday 1 March 2011

Less is More - 3 squares challenge

The challenge this week at Less is More is 3 squares which is a little less frightening than the last challenges!!!  lol

When I was at the Farnborough show last week I bought a new stencil and some red variagated foiling sheets from the Hobby House.  The stencil is part of a new range from Sweet Poppy and they have some lovely designs which are very reasonably priced.  For this card I took the stencil and taped it onto some ice white pearlised card and put transluscent embossing paste over it.  I let it dry for an hour or so and then replaced the stencil and brushed on some size; I left this for about 10 minutes to go tacky and then placed a sheet of the red variagated foil over the top, rubbed gently and then used a fairly stiff stencil brush to remove the excess.  I cut this foiled image into three and mounted onto a piece of red card.  The sentiment is computer generated (I'm getting addicted to these text boxes!!!  lol).  A very simple, but effective card.

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18 comments:

  1. What a super design KAren,
    We were looking at foils last week, Chrissie and I
    Must say that is probably very effective in real life. I think you may have scanned this is, so it's hard to get a good look at it

    Great submission though, thank you
    See you again
    mandi
    "Less is More"

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  2. Pity we missed you at Farnborough!
    This is lovely... it seems a very time consuming process, but it worked out splendidly!
    Your sentiment looks wonderful!
    Thanks for another great submission! See you next time!
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  3. What a beautiful card all your effort has paid off as it looks amazing xx

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  4. Lovely card Karen, it reminds me of vintage botanical prints.
    Val xx

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  5. Great technique, great image

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  6. A beautiful effect and a lovely image, lovely card

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  7. Beautiful effective card.

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  8. What a special card! Lovely!

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  9. Lovely card Karen, and good for you doing the computer generated text, looks great.
    Jose

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  10. Awesome design!! Love the foil!

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  11. Your time spent on this card has been well worth the result. x

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